I bought a Saitek Eclipse II keyboard from Dabs the other day, and so far it has been ace. Until this morning when I turned my computer on only for the 5 and 6 keys to decide they were on strike. To give Dabs their due, arranging the return has been very easy (assuming the courier turns up and the refund is processed), but to be perfectly frank I shouldn’t have been sent a faulty keyboard in the first place!
Well, although the appearance hasn’t changed at all, this blog is now hosted on Wordpress.com. You may wonder why I’ve done this. There are several advantages actually:
With the exception of category feeds (only affects the Planet Wikimedia aggregator) no links have changed at all. The category feeds have changed from http://davidarussell.co.uk/category/wikimedia (or whatever) to http://davidarussell.co.uk/tag/wikimedia (or whatever).
I just discovered why the site was taking so long to load. When backing up (for a potential move to MT) I had made the front page display 1000 posts (I was fiddling with templates to get htaccess redirects). I hadn’t changed it back to the usual 10 when I restored Wordpress. Like I say, oops 
There are no doubt lots of you out there who like the look of the Trackmania games. However most people (who are bothered about their system crashing and being hacked, and their DVD drive breaking) have held off on buying them because they are infected with a particularly vicious piece of malware known as StarForce. The game is getting a release on Steam, but unlike every other game on the platform (which have all remained uncopyable by using Steam’s copy-protection), the Steam version of TMU will still come infected with StarForce. As good a game as TMU no doubt is, I will not install a virus on my computer just to get playing it. Until they stop using such malware, no sale!
It seems that, after their pricing change a couple of years back caused them to lose users (and the all-important third party developers), SixApart have finally seen the light and decided to release an open source version of Movable Type.
The MTOS press release doesn’t make it clear what form this will take: will it be a full version of MT, with the ‘commercial version’ having the same features but also a service contract for commercial ’service level guarantee’? Or will it be a cut-down rubbish version, with MTOS users basically acting as unpaid beta testers to increase SixApart’s commercial profits?
If the former, then this may very well resurrect MovableType. If the latter, it could be the final nail in a coffin which already closely resembles a porcupine.