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From: LinkedIn
To: Rich Wood
Subject: Rich, 6 connections changed jobs in 2011

Please view this email with a client that supports HTML.

My client does support HTML, you’re just shit.


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21 hours to move between two gmail servers? That’s a bit shit.

It’s not been a good week for Google. First they release an “update” to Reader which pretty much completely ruins it, then the next day make the same update available for GMail with pretty much the same result. Finally, for now, they release a GMail app for iOS, which when you run it presents you with an error saying

no valid ‘aps-environment’ entitlement string found for this application

Does anyone at Google actually test anything they release? It doesn’t look like it from here.

5Mbps upload now active:

One more Apple fuck-up to add to the list. The Mac App Store doesn’t work correctly if you have Spotlight disabled. Why the fuck do I need to run a disk indexing application just to buy/update other applications? This doesn’t bode well for their Lion delivery method.

For reference, if Mac App Store gives you an error saying “You have updates available for other accounts” and you get an entry in the Console Messages saying “Multibyte IDs are unsupported”, you’ll need to re-enable Spotlight, or remove your HD from the Privacy settings in Spotlight.

As of v3.2, NeoOffice is no longer free. You can only download the software if you’ve made a donation of $10 or more in the last year. In my mind, you can’t call it a donation if it’s mandatory, it’s a payment.

Fortunately LibreOffice is free, even if it does have a stupid name.