I've accepted that it's best to treat people like grown-ups and if there's '@' and '.' and it's retyped then it passes. Someone can easily submit a fake name or phone number or street address, and e-mail's no different.

If they get it wrong, intentionally or not, then they don't get their receipt, confirmation, validation link, etc. and I believe in most cases the incentive is there for them to get it right.

In the rare case where there's some incentive to circumvent the system and this has some measurable impact on a site, then more validation may be warranted. Otherwise, why worry about it?

Also: HTML5. ;)

Please, don't read the Wikipedia article before you go out and rent or buy this movie. The movie is absolutely fantastic.

I have seen it 17 to 18 times, and even-though people have attempted to explain everything that is going on to me I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around it. Awesome for the hacker in you!

Y'know, this article isn't about Gmail performance nearly as much as it is another article about Google's utter disdain for our quaint notions of customer service and transparency.

Somebody who goes to a conference might get something like feedback and disseminate it to the masses - but that's it. Google is not interested in hearing about problems, and if they themselves are affected by a problem, well, boy howdy, they're on it - but in any other case, maybe they're on it, maybe they're not. Who are we to ask?

I think intelligence and attitude are both multipliers. The difference is, if you glorify attitude (to yourself) it can help you improve your attitude. Glorifying intelligence won't improve your intelligence so easily.

Cute. Incidentally, this was already my exact mental image of the average Opera user.

  Go for a walk in the park. Appreciate the trees.

I knew this was coming. You can, and should, do that regardless of whether you have millions or not.