The console that burns

In part on a friend’s insistence, I bought the Xbox 360 console a little less than six months ago. I knew before buying it that the Xbox 360 suffers from a scary problem that is notorious by the name of “the red ring of death.” If your Xbox console is unlucky to have the red [...]

Saved on a technicality

If your god is forever forgiving, provided that you bow only before him and consider him unparalleled, unchallenged, and single, would you indulge in petty (and non-trivial but non-cardinal) sins and deeds on the belief that at the end of your day you will be forgiven if you so seek forgiveness for your sins from [...]

Are Google Mail and Chat becoming an annoyance?

Is Google Mail faltering under its load?
Its webmail user experience appears to be degrading with respect to response times. It becomes appallingly slow often. I despise webmail interfaces, and therefore much prefer to use IMAP4 (or POP3). I have been content with Google Mail’s IMPA4 access until recently when I started to face a class [...]