Tag: Web Development

I don’t know if other people have noticed this issue, but in WordPress 2.5.x, if you ever try to delete a draft from Manage > Posts > Drafts, by ticking the checkbox next to  a post and then clicking on the ‘Delete’ button, it throws up an error saying Error in deleting… with no other information. It’s weird, because if you open up a draft individually and click on the Delete Post link in the Publish Status box then it doesn’t give an error – and goes ahead and deletes as required. Still, this itself is quite risky, because it does NOT ask for conformation before deleting the post (someone might have clicked it accidentally, while trying to click the Save / Publish button); and neither does it give a conformation after deleting the post. Weird too, that the WordPress team would have missed out something like this. There’s even a thread related to the draft delete error issue on WordPress Support Forums, which you might want to check out – the code change suggested there did not solve the problem for me though.

photo credit: Duet G.Being the largest email address provider in the world has its own problems, like it is for Yahoo!. With more than 250 million users (and growing) compared to a puny few tens of millions with Gmail, this huge number of users also means that many people don’t get the email ID of their dreams. To remedy this, Yahoo! is now giving out @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com addresses! The announcement was made a while ago on the Yodel Anecdotal Blog. Get them at new.mail.yahoo.com/addresses. Rocketmail, of course, one of the first email service providers which later got bought out by Yahoo!, so THAT’s a really vintage email ID you could show off. Ymail.com is short and snappy too.

The only problem I see now is what if someone has a yahoo.com ID, and someone else signs up for a ymail.com ID of the same name. Till now, the country where your mail ID was hosted was immaterial, but with the new system might come a bit of confusion initially. Say, while adding people on Yahoo! Instant Messenger. Like, are we supposed to add the extension too now, while adding messenger IDs? Of course, it must be set to accept yahoo.com as default…

Also, if you currently sign-up for a ymail.com ID, and then try to use the ‘extra email address’ feature to add a supplementary sign-in ID right now, it only checks for yahoo.com IDs, not ymail.com. That, would probably be sorted out in the next few days.

On the whole, this is a terrific news! No more multitudes of underscores and weird numbers and birthdates needed to land the email ID of your choice – opens up the playing field for newcomers to the Internet. Yahoo! 🙂