Category Archives: Google

Five+ years of Gmail

Posted on 19 January, 2010 by Simeon

Today while unsubscribing from NZ mailing lists and deleting old cruff, I went and found my oldest sent Gmail message, sent 26 August 2004, so I’ve been a very happy Gmail user all that time, and it’s better than I … Continue reading →

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Odd Advertising

Posted on 1 December, 2009 by Simeon

The company across the road from where I work, keep having their adds pop-up on my blog. I’m very puzzled what AdSense words I’ve mentioned to trigger it….

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Gmail UI updated: I HATE IT!

Posted on 28 February, 2008 by Simeon

Gmail have updated the UI, and quite frankly I hate it! It feels cluttered with the silly boxes in the Labels section But the icing on the cake is the in your face push for chat.  When reading mailing lists, … Continue reading →

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Google Analytics – Updated

Posted on 14 December, 2007 by Simeon

Google has updated Analytics, and the feature that made this most obvious was the date range picker.  Before you even open it you can see a new Comparing to: Site ? text. On opening the data picker, they now let … Continue reading →

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WordPress URL rewriting

Posted on 26 November, 2007 by Simeon

When reviewing Google Analytics this morning I noticed a 404 page view for: http://simeonpilgrim.com/404/blog/2007/07/17/curse-of-the-azure-bonds/ with the refer on the end of the URL, going to the referring web site their is a link to this none existing page but the … Continue reading →

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