Kenny's recently released a beta of his Mac OS X email application, Balzac. It certainly looks professional and well designed and no one will complain about having such a georgous icon in their dock (I use Textmate a lot but the icon looks awful).

I downloaded an early version of Balzac and provided a bit of feedback a couple of months ago when the distribution list was closed. However Kenny's now made the current release available to all so it's your chance to scour over it. I personally plan to upgrade to this latest beta over the weekend.

Anyway, nice one Kenny, keep up the good work.

I think the title says almost all of it but a picture (or rather a link) paints a thousand words. Nice dock effect and an impressive use of Javascript though actual usefulness is questionable.

Update: It seems that googlex was not quite ready and since I originally posted this entry it has been removed from the Google Labs page.

I've been using Oracle 9 at work a lot recently which has opened my eyes to the ANSI standard JOIN syntax and the clarity that it brings to query statements. At home I use MySQL and since this also supports the ANSI standards I have migrated to using the same format there too. Having seen the light I now can't see myself going back to the old style.

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