Why does anyone use Yahoo email???

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:15:00 --0100

A word of advice for anyone using Yahoo mail:

Use Googlemail

Last night, I had to test the formatting of an email generated by our Email Marketing tool within Yahoo mail.

The first email I sent arrived immediately
The second email I sent did not arrive within an hour and a half
The third email I sent (20 minutes later) also did not arrive within that time frame
The fourth email I sent (over an hour later) arrived imediately

When I checked yahoo mail this morning, there were four unread emails - including one which had been sent at 16:30 the previous day - this mail took at least 8 hours to arrive! This in itself should be more than enough to stop anyone using yahoo mail (This is definitely not an isolated instance, we have had several reports of this behaviour from our clients). In addition, the following would also stop me using yahoo:

Extremely intrusive advertising, often taking over ~ 50% of the screen space.
The annoying this message was sent using yahoo mail - aren't we fantastic! message which yahoo seem to put into every outgoing email by default
When you set up a new account, Yahoo seem to "opt you in" to receive messages within various categories - without warning you that they are going to

Now I appreciate that some people don't get on with the googlemail interface - but if my 60+ year old mum can can cope with moving from yahoo to google (and actually prefers the googlemail interface) - then it can't be that hard! Add on the fact that you can host email for your own domains there for free - and you get a whole lot of other functionality for free as well (Blackberry / mobile device / POP3 / IMAP access, integration with other Google services etc.) - and the advertising is non intrusive (and often relevant) - then I really can't understand why anyone would use a service which is as dysfunctional and annoying as yahoo's... Rant over... for now...

What is wrong with Internet Explorer?

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:18:00 --0100

I'm currently in the process of setting up a new development machine with all the software I need (Oh what fun!)

I was working may way through my list of essentials (about 90 items and counting!) - installing from disk for stuff on disk, and downloading the most recent versions of apps available on line.

Shortly after installing MS-Office (and running MS Update and rebooting), I tried to download iTunes... I.E. crashed as soon as I had clicked the save to disk button. I tried again... I.E. crashed again. So I thought - lets download FireFox and use that instead... I.E. crashed again.

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Why does anyone use Yahoo email???

Use Googlemail

What is wrong with Internet Explorer?