I’m still not sure how, but in the course of the WP upgrade my FTP client decided to delete index.php and not upload the new version. Those of you who know Wordpress (or can follow the logic of the filename) will be aware of the problem this might cause (which it did – apologies to anyone who got a folder instead of a site about 10 minutes ago). Upgrade seems to have worked though.
The most important is of course the official release of Firefox 1.5 – of course there’s no huge feature difference from the Release Candidate versions (except bug fixes, although there weren’t all that many to begin with) but I know a lot of people aren’t comfortable with using test versions of software and I can tell you that there is a significant difference between 1.0.x (the previous stable version that most people are using) and 1.5 – enjoy!
Also Wordpress (which you see before you) has been updated [not today, I only just noticed it] from ‘beta’ to ‘release candidate’ status – imply that its slightly less buggy and crashy than before 
Of course they still haven’t fixed my pet hate, but it is not slated for fixing by version 2.1 (why it takes that long to change 3 characters in a CSS file is beyond me). I’ll install the Release Candidate anyway and see if it fixes some of the other bugs [the ones I’ve noticed in the beta anyway].
I’ve just noticed that the tag pages don’t actually work. At all. Needless to say I’ll be trying to find an alternative plugin, but hopefully I’ll be able to migrate the existing keywords (or use some sort of database hack to do it). Grr.
[EDIT] I’ve got a new plugin up and running – no internal Cosmos page or pseudo-categories but it has Technorati links instead, so you can get more blogosphere rantings on the same subject.
Yes, that’s right, its official: peer-to-peer networks are still much more popular than the ‘legal’ downloans supported by the music industry. That’s according to a study by Jupiter Research quoted by BBC News, which found that more than three times as many 18 – 24 year olds in Europe used P2P networks as used iTunes, Napster etc. (34% compared to 10%, respectively). So, despite the campaign of intimidation against dead people and grandparents (which started in the US but has now spread to Europe) European youths are refusing to give in to the cartels.
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Well, not fixed, but I have a hack/workaround that will do for now. Apparently this pixel shift was deliberately put in to Wordpress to accomodate a bug in IE, and Firefox 1.0.x ignored it, but Firefox 1.5 RC3 follows the CSS standard more closely and doesn’t ignore it. There is no ‘maybe’ about it – Firefox is following the W3C CSS specification therefore Firefox is in the right and Wordpress is in the wrong, but for now I have a solution available that presents the IE-bug spreadsheet to IE users, and presents the normal stylesheet to non-IE users and people with javascript disabled (since javascript is the detection method). The detection method is not foolproof (*shudders*) – any Firefox users with the ActiveX plugin (can’t for the life of me think why since ActiveX is one of IE’s biggest flaws) may experience the pixel shift (since the nifty browser detection works by checking for ActiveX, which normally only IE has). Sorry folks, but it’s the best I can do!
UPDATE: The browser detection didn’t work (I forgot that XP SP2 tightens up ActiveX which presumably includes preventing javascripts from detecting it :P) so it’s stuck the way it is for now. If you have a problem with this (you should :P), complain on the Wordpress support discussion.