One of the things I spend an untoward amount of time on when working with my older clients is the business of uploading and downloading e-mail attachments. But lest you think I’m being ageist here, back in my days in Corporate America, I had to frequently remind the Cow Orkers about attachment size limitations and the evil practice of not clearing out huge attachments from one’s Exchange mailbox. Most cubicle cattle seem to hold to the belief that attachment limits and mailbox sizes are just IT Department power trips and routinely ignore the various warnings they receive, then cry bloody murder when their e-mail account gets locked out or they suffer data loss from exceeding the recommended size limit of their Exchange mailbox.
So Google didn’t exactly HELP by upping the size limit on Gmail file attachments to 25MB a few months ago. In a world where a single PowerPoint presentation can top out at twice that size, or when people want to mail video clips, there’s definitely an argument to be made for it, but this blog post from a Google Minion explains what it really means in terms of system overhead and why you should not mail that funny cat video to everyone you ever met.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
