Technology

You'll never probably need to delete another message

Remember when GMail first came out? 1GB of email was unheard of, especially in a free service at the time. One of Google’s big selling points was “you’ll never need to delete another message.” It was right there on the home page. If you compare the home pages from 2004 and today for Gmail you’ll...

Apr 24, 2012 3 minute read.

Technology

Google's Code Mistake, and what they did to make it right

A Coding Challenge to get into Google I/O 2012 went awry when Google's developers made a simple validation mistake

Apr 19, 2012 5 minute read.

Event Review

Google I/O 2012 Sells out in less than a half hour

Even though Google doubled the price (paid $450 last year, this year $900), Google I/O sold out even faster than last year. Last year it took about 45 minutes for Google’s Developer conference to sell out, this year it was all over in just over 20 minutes according to a post on Google+ by Google...

Mar 27, 2012 1 minute read.

Book Reviews

Perhaps it isn't April Fools day after all! Pottermore Shop now open

I mentioned last week that Pottermore is set to open to the public on April 1st unless it is a cruel April Fool’s Day joke to Potter fans. It seems the Pottermore team is hoping to dispel the fears that it might be a joke by releasing part of the site (a part that wasn’t previously even available...

Mar 27, 2012 3 minute read.

Reviews

The Tale as old as Time, is new again (twice)

A review of both the Beauty and the Beast new movie and the stage play

Mar 22, 2012 2 minute read.

Book Reviews

Pottermore to finally open up on April 1st, unless it's a cruel joke

I’ve talked before about Pottermore, the website by J.K. Rowling and TH_NK. Well according to the Pottermore Insider blog, the site will go live on April 1st, it isn’t clear if this means that the ebooks will finally be available on that date too, although I hope so. Of course, April 1st is well...

Mar 20, 2012 1 minute read.

Technology

What's all the Hubbub about anyway?

I’ve been fighting with the PubSubHubbub protocol over the last few days. I apologize for the test posts which have been causing annoyances to what few readers I actually have. For those of you who have no idea what PubSubHubbub is, it is a method of allowing people to get updates about new blog...

Mar 20, 2012 2 minute read.

Event Review

Google I/O 2012 Here I come

I’m all registered to go to Google I/O 2012 on June 27, 2012. I’ve been to every Google I/O so far (and Google Developer Day before that) and am really looking forward to going again. The price was really hiked up this year ($900 as opposed to $450 last year), but they have done away with the...

Mar 13, 2012 1 minute read.

Holiday

2011 on Nick.pro

Even though my blog is self-hosted, I like many WordPress users who use wordpress.com stats from the Jetpack plugin. This year, the great people at WordPress.com decided to create some really great-looking Annual Reports for blogs using wordpress.com stats. In 2011 I wrote only 12 posts, which is...

Jan 10, 2012 1 minute read.