Email services & scorpions

This post actually isn't about email services.  I have written an article, "Email Services for Businesses," as a follow-up to my post, "Some recommendations on email."  It's actually a detailed piece so I won't go through it, other than to provide this one recommendation.

If you are are small or medium sized company, do yourself a favor, try outsourcing your email. It might be one of the smartest technology decisions you make this year.

Scorpions have little to do with email, but just when you thought it was safe to get on an airplane once again, The Toronto Star, had an article today about a Queen's University student.

Anthony Harris was enjoying the aerial view of Lake Ontario from his window seat when he suddenly felt as if someone was tearing the hair out of the back of his leg.

When the sharp pain dulled to a throbbing ache, the 21-year-old Queen's University student thought his leg had simply cramped up on the flight from Miami, where his family had stopped for a night on their way home from a Costa Rica vacation.

"Then I looked down and there was a scorpion crawling up my leg," Harris said.

Never let it be said that air travel is getting dull.  The Toronto paper also reported the following.

A superbug once confined to hospitals, it’s now springing up in communities across Canada. It’s already an epidemic in the United States and experts fear the bacteria, which are resistant to a commonly used group of antibiotics called methicillin, could become resistant to other antibiotics and spread unchecked.

That makes the stomach bug that is going around the state look pretty minor.  It's pretty hard to believe that stomach bug could be eclipsed by anything since when I had it, I felt my socks had been knocked off.

Today was the day that Apple announced its iPhone.  I wasn't very surprised.  Actually in the recent piece that I wrote for the Guardian Unlimited in London, I said the following.

I am 99% confident we will see an Apple phone, with enhanced music capabilities and maybe a few computing features such as email and contacts synchronisation with Macs or through .Mac.

It's nice to be right once in a while.  :)