I like Six Apart as a company. They offer services I like. TypePad being one of them. They appear to listen to their customers and are willing to make changes.

With these licensing changes to MovableType, I considered paying $100 to get an unlimited personal edition license then getting it hosted somewhere (I’ve heard good things abouth Prohosters). Pricewise, it’ll come to about the same amount but I’ll have greater control over my weblog. On the other hand, I like that the day to day administration of my weblog is handled by someone. That leaves me to spend precious free time focusing on more interesting things.

On the subject of weblog software, Drupal, Plone and Wordpress appear good alternatives to MovableType. All are available under free (as in libre and beer) licenses. I tempted to get my Linux box running and having a bakeoff between the 4.

Since getting myself a GMail account, I’ve been amused by the extent people will go to get one. Google will eventually release GMail to the general public so why the rush to get one. While reading about the furor over GMail, I found Oddpost. It looks really interesting except they require IE 5.5 for Windows. That is a real pity because I don’t have a Windows machine readily available to me when I’m at home.

A new version of Firefox, 0.9 is out. I use OmniWeb 5 and Firefox interchangebly though I feel that Firefox is the best damn browser out there, despite the cool new ideas that OmniWeb has originated. Also check out Thunderbird, a companion email client to Firefox.

The sound on my TV has gone kaput. I’m half heartedly looking around for a replacement. Why half heartedly? Whenever I come home, I always have a bad habit of switching on the TV even when I don’t watch it. This always distracts from doing other stuff, listening to music, reading, writing. It’s been nice to have some peace and quiet for the last two days.