Just a quick note to say that the new design is live, this is the first time this design has gone live on http://www.yurisko.net so if you see broken things please let me know. As previously pointed out it’s been a long time coming but I think you will agree that it’s a big improvement over the previous version. I have copied across my old travel-blog entries in case there is some strange person out there who is still interested in it.

Looks like everybody is successfully up and running on the gmail based mail server for yurisko and I thought I would just point out a few useful tips and tricks. 1. Set your mail client to save messages into the appropriate gmail folders so that they are easy to use when you are using the webmail. This means: - Draft messages into [Gmail]/Drafts - Sent mail into [Gmail]/Sent Mail - Trash/Deleted into [Gmail]/Trash 1. Learn how to set an automatic vacation message for when you are out of town and want to let people know ( http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=25922) 1. Get in the habit of periodically checking your [Gmail]/Spam folder for emails that have been marked as spam so that you don't lose important things 1.

Friday I successfully migrated the email server that has trustily handled all email for yurisko.net across to being hosted on Google Apps. Google Apps allows you to piggyback onto the gmail infrastructure including webmail / Antivirus / Spam etc for free and it’s working great so far. It wasn’t without it’s hiccups, especially transferring 6 mailboxes with a combined 2.5G of mail in lots of different folders. That bit was really not fun at all. If any of my long suffering fellow yurisko.net email users have any problems please get in contact and I will see if I can fix it up for you.

Welcome to the newly redesigned Yurisko Dot Net. It’s been a long time coming but as part of my move to Amazon EC2 hosting I have decided to breathe some life into my website and make it useful again (if it ever was). My plan is to use this site to store articles about interesting tech things that I have found / done as well as post recipes and other fun stuff that interests me. Stay tuned for more updates soon.

Well it’s been a while since I updated this thing but thats mainly due to the towns I have been in not having anything approaching affordable or decent internet. Anyway since I last updated I have flown from Napes to Strasbourg(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg) via Basel-Mulhouse(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel). We spent 2 nights there after being delayed 5 hours by EasyJet in Naples airport and then headed on the train to meet mum, dad and Liz in Sarrebourg(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarrebourg). From there we took a canal boat(http://www.crownblueline.fr/boatspecs.html?boat=JAM) and headed south for 5 days through the Lorraine and Alsace regions of France. It was a lot more hard work than we had been lead to believe.

Well we have made it to our last Italian city Napoli(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples). After Amalfi(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalfi) it is a little bit of a culture shock, its dirty, full of pickpockets and various ripoff scams and other lovely stuff. Here is hoping the Pizza is good (havent really tried it properly yet). We have tomorrow here in Naples and then the day after we are flying to Basel(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel) and getting a train to Strasbourg(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg) where we will spend a couple of nights before meeting up with Mum and Dad for a canal boat ride. I have to keep this quick, Naples also sucks for internet access and this keyboard is bloody killing me (the keys are different to what is written on them and the spacebar is fairly broken).

Hi all, sorry I haven’t updated in a while, Amalfi isn’t really an internet cafe sort of place. Sorry if the following update is a bit terse at points, I am working from memory here. Since I last updated we have been to Rome, where I checked out a lot of the old Roman stuff and did my best to ignore anything remotely related with the vatican. In Rome we ran into a friend of Stuarts ( well she knew we were there via Email anyway ) which was handy as she managed to score us accommodation at the same place they were staying at, it wasnt palatial and the toilets stank like hell but it was okay for a few nights.

Hello from Florence(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence). Venice was really nice and we had a great time there, such a beautiful city but so completely rammed full of tourists in the main areas. St Marco’s is so jam packed with tourists it’s hilarious, and the prices in the cafes around there are equally ridiculous, 5 Euro for a coffee? We managed to walk through most parts of the city over the 3 days we were there and saw a hell of a lot of the city. We tried to avoid the tourist areas as much as possible and came across some really cool parts off the beaten track including a soccer field and some great plazas filled with locals out drinking and playing soccer and fire twirling.

Well we have arrived in Venice. The last few days in Barcelona have been fairly crazy. We got the train in from madrid and it was a hell of a lot better than the train from Lisbon to Madrid was. The spanish countryside was pretty interesting to watch roll by and we had some food that we had picked up at the supermarket in Madrid to keep us going. Barcelona is a fairly crazy town, you really have to watch your wallet as there are shiffy buggers everywhere trying to pick pockets and running dodgy shell games. Had a few times where dodgy guys were following us and trying to harrass us at ATMs but didn’t get too much trouble in the end.

First of all I have to say that the train from Lisbon to Madrid is truly shite. It has to be the noisiest and slowest train I have seen in Europe so far, nothing a bottle of wine couldn’t fix though. I have been in Madrid for the past couple of nights. This place is really great, it has a very different vibe to Lisbon but I have been having a lot of fun. Tomorrow we are off to Toledo which hopefully will be good fun and the day after we have booked tickets to Barcelona. I have been staying at a friend of stuarts place on a couch which is great, Clem is a nice guy and has been showing us around town a bit and generally steering us off the well trodden tourist track.