The Spam Filter Won… Sorry!

A few months ago, I added a contact form on my blog to allow readers as well as users of my WordPress plugins to send me e-mails. However, I failed to realize that during all of this time, the gmail spam filter was gobbling up all of the e-mails, thinking that someone was spoofing people’s addresses. I have been able to retrieve all (I think) e-mails sent through the contact form for the past month, but anything before that time is lost.

So if you tried to contact me through the Contact Form before a month ago, please write me again and I should get your message this time. I was not ignoring you!

• Podcaster Scott Johnson came back with a new show after a month's off. I missed Ramdom Thoughts so much! http://bit.ly/3y67iG #
• Get Homer Simpson to give you directions! This look too funny! http://www.tomtom.com/page/simpsons #
• Trying out the Nocturnal Podcast by Matt Darey: http://www.mattdarey.com/v3/ #
• Time to upgrade: Firefox 3.5 was released today: http://getfirefox.com #

• Back to the office after a great week off. #
• The Ghostbusters get rendered Simpsons-style on this neat blog: http://bit.ly/D4uIR #

Windows 7 Deals for a limited time

I have been using Windows 7 for about two months and absolutely love it. The improvements that Microsoft has done to the user interface are great and make it easy to get around the UI quickly.

Now, as I said before, I was hoping that the price tag on the Upgrade to the new Windows version would not be too steep so that people can actually afford the upgrade. Microsoft recent announced the prices for all version of Windows 7 and the results are not too bad. The Home premium upgrade clocks in at 120$ US and 130$ CAD. In my opinion, these are a little bit high but still acceptable. But to make it even better, Microsoft is offering heavy discounts through most North-American online stores on pre-order between now and July 11th (Amazon and Best Buy in the US, and the same two along with Future Shop in Canada). Customers get 58% discount in the US and 50% in Canada. While it’s not the 29$ of the latest version of Mac OS X, I still think that this will help people migrate from XP and Vista to their new OS. Check your favorite online retailer and see what deals they are offering. A few other countries are listed on the Microsoft site and perhaps more will be added later.

Summer’s here, time for a new theme

One thing that I have always loved about WordPress is the ability to quickly change my site’s theme in an hour or two and preserve all of its data while completely changing how it looks. As you can see if you are visiting my actual site, I had fun and changed the visual theme for my blog once again. I hope that you like it. Let me know if you see anything not working correctly.

• After raving about Windows 7 for a few weeks, Microsoft came through and offer pre-order deals for 65$ CAD. Sweet! http://bit.ly/11Uq0f #

• A few more hours before a week off. Let's hope that the weather will be nice next week. #
• Besides all of the hyped features, the new iPhone 3.0 OS add some cool bavigation features for audio files. http://bit.ly/av7li #
• I have to start using spell check when I post updates. Just saw a bad typo in my last updates… #

• http://bit.ly/YsON4 This is the most biased browser comparison chart I have ever seen! #
• After spending a two weeks in a room with no windows, I get back to my desk with a window, and it's pouring rain… Doh! #

• Looking forward to downloading the iPod Touch 3.0 OS update tonight. #
• Amazing video. Musician beatboxing and playing the flute to remix the Inspector Gadget and Beverly Hills Cop music http://tinyurl.com/kppha9 #
• RT @CaliLewis: Cool stop motion video with post-its: http://bit.ly/ZtN3V #

• Still searching for the perfect Twitter/Facebook client. Seems TweetDeck is not getting all of my friend's updates from Facebook… #
• I think that bDule might be a serious contender in my search for the perfect twitter/facebook client. http://www.sobees.com/bdule #
• Looking forward to a week off next week. But it's only Tuesday! #