Boris Smus

Since moving to the states, I have had nothing but grief from the .ca at the end of my all-purpose email address. Even in Canada, people would constantly confuse z3.ca for z3.com, resulting in email bounces. To resolve this problem once and for all, I decided to switch to Gmail like all the cool kids. I registered boris.smus long ago out but never used it. The first thing I did was try to link my z3.ca to the Gmail. When I couldn’t figure out how to do that, I deleted my Gmail account in order to re-create a new pre-linked account with the same name. Sounds innocent enough, right?

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Web design used to be a black art. Ten years ago, browser differences used to be so dramatic that the only viable solution for an HTML designer was to fall back to the least common denominator for page layout, which was HTML tables. In today’s web design community, using table layouts is considered to be a heinous crime, since most popular modern rendering engines (IE, Gecko and WebKit) are converging to some shared interpretation of web standards. Unlike layout engines on the web, though, rich mail interpreters have remained stagnant, and in some cases have regressed. Without pointing any fingers

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