As usual, I'm surfing the Web and I came across two Web design firms that could not be more different. Your task, should you care to accept it: look at them both, then compare and contrast.

The Web Guild (warning - only works properly [and I use that term loosely] in Internet Explorer)

Twentyone Degrees

If you were the American Egg Board, which firm would you want doing your site? ;-)

Since Thunderbird 1.0 was released by the Mozilla Foundation, I have been using Thunderbird as my email client. I like Thunderbird, but I have encountered two weird problems with it. The first is that even though it is not required with Outlook Express, Thunderbird would not send outgoing mail with any of my email servers without setting user authentication. Now this is not a bad thing, but it is strange that Thunderbird won't work without it while Outlook Express works just fine.

The second is that after a few weeks of operating just fine, Thunderbird would no longer connect with my mail servers for outgoing mail--for no discernible reasons. And not just one server but all three different email servers that I use (one of which I administer myself). Fortunately, the solution again was simple, but equally nonsensical: install Thunderbird 1.0.2. Instant fix!

Just weird.