Hope everyone had a great Easter long weekend.  Mine was especially good as I had the Thursday off too, 5-day weekend!  I decided to ban myself from the internet for the whole weekend and just focus on family time, so I’m catching up today.

• Google released My Maps, which is really going to annoy all those people who have spent ages constructing exactly the same functionality with the Google Maps API on their own site. It’s pretty darn nifty though.  If any readers have created a map, please leave a comment to let us know.
• You want to read this Washington Post article.
• Dean Peters has finally emerged from wherever he was hiding to start teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design again. He opens up with some links to ILoveJackDaniels.com’s excellent cheat sheets and then gets straight back into the action.
• I’ve done a bit of housekeeping here.  I noticed a bunch of common 404 errors showing up which were just out of date or typo’d links, so I’ve updated my .htaccess file to redirect them.  This includes a whole lot of requests for atom.xml and index.rdf, which I’ve now redirected to my FeedBurner url.  It will be interesting to see if these were valid unique requests.
• As well as this I realised that my 404 page was completely broken.  The page hadn’t been updated since I last changed my design here, so I’ve created a shiny new 404 not found page that has a bunch of (hopefully) helpful links, and an intuitive search box that looks at the referrer and tried to guess what the person was looking for. Here’s a fake URL for your testing convenience.
• I now know I’ve made it as a .NET blogger, I’ve been linked to by Jeff Atwood! (Scroll down to the bottom of the comments.  Yes, OK, so it’s in a comment on a post from over a year ago, but it’s still a link dammit!)

later!