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Lo and behold, ladies and gentlemen, after quite some time of tweaks and fixes and some more tweaks, the brand-new homepage of Pathfinder.gr is here!

It’s not a beta, but always a work in progress, feel free to pass by and check it out.

Any idea or comment or critique is more than welcome.

And don’t forget to check out the 2007 version of Pathfinder Christmas!

On a relevant note, some colleagues and me will attend the IMC 2007 event in Athens tomorrow. See you there!

pathfinder, pathfinder.gr

Since its recent overhaul, Gmail is getting buggier and buggier for me. Or is it really just for me?

I ranted and ranted to friends and relatives, twitted about it, talked to myself and decided not to get too angry with it, but enough! Now it’s revenge blogging time!

My main problems seem to be Gmail running in multiple instances (say, tabs) and the search functionality. At home (Safari), Gmail refuses to cooperate when I have multiple instances of it open, since it does not respond at clicks at all. At work (Firefox), using the search function completely locks up my browser at least once per day, forcing me to kill and restart the app. I’m quite lukewarm towards Firefox these days, but this is just insane!

I don’t know what’s wrong – my inbox is almost always empty since I tag and archive everything, I have only 3 labels (OK, maybe a little more with Mail.app IMAP integration) and.. that’s it! I use only 5% of my total space and I’m a relatively occasional e-mailer. What’s wrong?

Before you start, yes, I disabled Firebug for Gmail ages ago. The problems persist though. Sometimes even switching to the older version won’t do – because the app itself won’t let me into the old version, freezing upon loading.

Needless to say, this has cost me many precious minutes – since I work by e-mail for PC Magazine, I find it highly irritating that my Gmail won’t obey me.

Has any of you experienced a similar problem after the update?

gmail, gmail bugs

I love o.rang.es, a great site with short stories by Edward Pistachio, much like a blog. Apart from its excellent typography and the interesting range of ornaments and symbols used, it has a nifty contact form, unlike any other I’ve seen:

O.rang.es contact form

To solve the problem of bots and to ensure that he doesn’t receive only the occasional “Oi! Nice site! Kthnxbai” e-mails, mr. Pistachio put together a little riddle to help you discover his long-sought e-mail address.

Put the letters in the right order, gather the numbered letters et voilá! The address is there. Nice twist to the usual, bland comment forms.

No spoilers in the picture above, promise!

o.rang.es, edward pistachio, contact form