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How to check your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are set up correctly in Google Workspace: jameskimbley.com

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I didn’t ask for this. Nicky sent it over unprompted, which makes it worth more than anything I’d have written myself:

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We have been working with Kimbley IT for the past three years. They specialise in IT assistance and support for companies that use Google Workspace, and The PR Network is a Google business.

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T...

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Sent a link to someone to a 19-minute video. They replied less than five minutes later that it was a great video.

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Vibe Coding: You don't know what you don't know! \"\" : jameskimbley.com

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Our first Google Workspace Marketplace app has been submitted to Google.

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Hopefully it gets approved 🤞

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It will save our Google Workspace by Kimbley IT clients a lot of the time when dealing with particular file types that aren’t natively supported in Google Drive.

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We’re also making it free to the world so...

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If you’ve lost control of the model because it’s actively escaped, how can you guarantee the kill switch would even work?

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PSU went bang this morning. It’s the first time I’ve had a PSU fail on one of my machines.

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Kai (Kimbley AI) is our agent that interacts directly with our clients. jameskimbley.com

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The hatchling has emerged. Young pigeons develop quite rapidly; I estimate this one hatched a week ago, but this is the first occasion I’ve been able to observe it.

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(The body to the left is the parent) I have only been able to get a photo of the hatchling’s head.

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Net 30 Purchase Order/Request for Quote (RFQ) scam: jameskimbley.com

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Just announced, Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. So if you’re a fan of NotebookLM, be prepared for the name change when you go looking for it in the future.

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Gemini in Chrome is now rolling out in the UK! Google has taken its time with this release, that’s for sure!

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Why did your email land in spam? jameskimbley.com

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This pigeon and its mate have been nesting for about 16 days now. We’ve been watching them from afar with the zoom on our camera, expecting their fledglings to hatch any day now.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://jameskimbley.com/2026/07/11/this-pigeon-and-its-mate.html","date_published":"2026-07-11T18:51:10+00:00","author":{"name":"James Kimbley","url":"https://jameskimbley.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F27%2F1932161.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jameskimbley"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-11 18:51","date_timestamp":1783795870,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@james.kimbley/post/Daqc4A1nfFG"]}},{"id":"93829039","content_html":"

Google was slow off the mark with AI, though they caught up and led for a while with Gemini 3, but now they feel further behind than ever, even more so if you don’t live in the US.

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Anthropic and OpenAI release all new features globally immediately, but most of Gemini’s latest features are US-only.

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You should be cautious about some accounting firms. jameskimbley.com

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