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I check my mail queues almost every other day. Just to make sure there’s no HUGE AMOUNT OF junk in them. So what I find is the following recipeint domains in my queue

• vweizon.net (2 count)
• eartnlink.net (1 count)

Hmmm WAIT A SEC these are just screwed up… AH HA! So I fixed them but noticed something the same person. So either fast fingers or coffe on the keyboard. Not the first time I’ve seen this from this person. Oh well…

I just implimented RoundCube Webmail on my production servers. It’s an IMAP client that uses AJAX to work. It’s REALLY SLICK… Drag/Drop Fading all the bells and whistles and it looks MUCH better than Squirrel Mail or Horde. Plus by using AJAX the client side is MUCH faster.

Check out Squidoo! A neat site that lets you put up little portals you design. You can earn money that you either keep (via paypal) OR donate.

A GREAT way to earn a little money and promote yourself.

Here is one of my ‘Lenses‘

Included in the Automattic Widgets install is a del.icio.us widget. VERY nice shows your links. I updated it to add your Network Badge makeing the changes were a SNAP because of the GREAT work Automattic did. Download it here

Just updated the site to use the widget plugin by Automattic GREAT PLUGIN… A LOT EASIER to manage your site and add functionality without futzing with a LOT of coding.
A MUST for ANYONE who has a blog or clients that want more in their blog.

I’ve been meaning to try Foxit’s PDF Viewer… I want SO BAD when waiting for Acrobat to open… AAcrobat has become rather geriatric (SLOW forgetfull and falls down and breaks it’s hip a LOT) so I tried it… AND WOW fast clean and quick. I still use AA to edit etc… but Foxit is really Foxy for me!

I just took a look at the google notebook… Kinda like a web clip that can follow you all around. VERY COOL.. with Firefox (1.5 or less) extensions and IE 6 (don’t ask about IE 7) add-on it really makes web research EASY and FAST!

You can mark notebooks and private or public. And even note Google search results quickly.

http://www.google.com/notebook

I was recently sent a newsletter from a client about Search Engines and Valid HTML. The author points out that Valid HTML is hard to find amoung the results of his searches.

MANY of his results that were invalid HTML (or XHTML) were sites that were ‘Official’ Sites such as FIFA.COM or the like. Why in a search engine would the official site be high ranked would it be related to valid HTML or the CONTENT of the site?

Several times wikipedia came up as a result and while it wasn’t valid it failed only due to a single problem. (Duplicated ID tag) NOT really the biggest of issues and entirely ignored by most indexers anyway.

He also brings up the point of ESPN.com, IMDB.com and MySpace.com not having valid HTML. What do those sites have that most sites don’t? Content, Visitors and Links APLENTY! As for the search engines being valid, why should they care? Often they are automatically added and the end user doesn’t care at all.

Think of things this way. A website is like a resturant. The Health Code is Valid HTML. Nobody follows it to the letter (I know my wife used to run a resturant and I’ve talked with inspectors) HOWEVER as long as most of the place is clean and safe you can serve food. Now some of the NASTIEST places I’ve been in have been MAJOR fast food resturants. Do they need to care about each and every health code infraction? No… they have the traffic and sales. Does the little corner pizza shop need to care? A bit more, but they better have good pizza(CONTENT) or else people won’t come. Make crappy food and odds are people won’t come no matter how clean your floor is… HOWEVER have a dirty floor and contaminated food and not only will people not come the board of health will shut you down.

The author does conclude that while valid HTML is a VERY GOOD THING and encourages people to use it. The impact on search engines in minimal. But I don’t think he’s reallly seen HOW bad Invalid HTML can be.

ON a side note the links to the online version of the article and the printable version ended up being 404 errors… a bit more serious error than invalid HTML…

Microsoft released IE 7 Beta 3 today. Download it
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/29/649910.aspx
You might need the dreaded WGA though…

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I Forgot to say that within a day Roboform was updated…. YEAH ROBOFORM!