Thursday, February 23, 2006

Gmail chat issue

I am so angry about GMail's new Chats feature. I wasted a few days trying to figure out why one of my friends had this feature enabled but not me.

After a vigorous investigation, I figured out that it was because I had my language set to UK-English rather than US-English. Yanks think the universe revolves around the US. There is US and the rest of the world.

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