nil desperandum

This is gonna be brief - If you don't know Domain Names of America, be thankful. If you do, you'll know about their tactics of emailing people when your domain name is due to expire giving you directions of how to re-register your domain using thier site. Basically, the email misleads the unwary into transfering their domains to them. Well, I got post (snail mail) yesterday morning from Domain Names of America! The contents of the post was a form to re-register one of my domains that is coming up for renewal! Half way down the page is a small bold notice that says that this is not a bill, but doesn't point out that they don't actually manage your domain!! I was so annoyed I ripped the letter up into small pieces and binned it very quickly, but I thought I would just post a quick note to bring this to people's attention, specifically if the domain names you manage have client details for administrative purposes. "Clients" aren't always the brightest bunch and could accidently transfer domains away from your control c/o this latest pile of junk by DNoA.

I've been meaning to post this for a while. I've been messing about on twitter and pownce for a while now and not really told anyone. If you you want to join me/follow me you'll find me at http://www.pownce.com/mr_nil/ for pownce or http://twitter.com/mr_nil for Twitter. If you don't follow me, you should at least follow the Scotch on the Rocks pownce and twitter, so that you can get the latest updates on the conference as they happen! ;o) I also recently signed up on Facebook - I have no idea how to point you to my facebook profile, but if you search for the Scottish ColdFusion User Facebook Group, then you should find me. I'm also on LinkedIn - there's a button down at the bottom right of my blog to get to my profile. I'm also on all sorts of IM, GTalk, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, AIM. Ask me for details if you want to get in touch via IM.

Anyone not on pownce yet? Want an invite? Leave me a comment and I'll send you an invite. (Don't forget to put your correct email address in when you post the comment.)

Its my 30-something birthday coming up next Wednesday and, as usual, I'm in deep do-do with the wife cos I haven't given her any idea for what I want for my birthday and, to be honest, I'm not really sure what I do want.... So this is a cry for help..... Any suggestions for music/books would be most appreciated.... I'm currently reading, and loving, Christopher Brookmyre - All Fun and Games until somebody loses and Eye. I read crime thrillers from the likes of Patricia Cornwall and I also read Sci-Fi (Iain Banks) and Fantasy (yes I read the Harry Potter books, but also Trudy Canavan, David Eddings and co) Music - take a look at my LastFM page for the stuff I've been listening to on my iPod.

And now for another follow on post... I read Nick Tong's post the other day on getting today's emails from GMail. That got me to thinking - is there an easy way to solve my pet annoyance.... How do I see the unread emails in my inbox or under any label?! The answer was, typically, very simple: in:inbox is:unread Will get all the unread emails in my inbox. label:my-label is:unread Well give all the unread emails with "My Label". Make sure you replace the spaces in your label with "-". Like Leif, all I need now is a way to get my email to load up like this!