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New name for Google Mail: "Oops"

It's been a rough weekend at NewsWireless. We've had no Internet. Not anywhere.

In Portugal, the Vodafone connection to our Editor's hotel was hopeless. Not a mobile connection, but a Vodafone ADSL line; if you remember the Editor's blog, he was getting two-second latency on each "hop" - and worse.

Here in London, Thursday, crooks broke into the Stepney exchange. Amongst the many ISPs who were cut right off was our own ADSL provider; NewsWireless Towers was ejected from cyberspace.

And when that was fixed, did things work?

No, they did not! The connection to the Web was occasionally letting the odd bit and byte and sometimes a complete packet through. But mostly, it sat there and sulked. Turned out to be a broken port on our router; a replacement is on the way.

Look, I don't want to make it sound like we're martyrs. But when I say that it's been like that ALL THE TIME I'm not exaggerating. And the little picture at the top gives it to you. What is it? It's Chrome.

Google's own browser shows you all your most-visited links. Really a great idea! and it shows them by thumbnail, not by URL. And, one of my most-used links is my Gmail email page. And, as you can see, it uses the title of the page as a label.

The title of gmail? "Oops! This link appears to be broken."