May 14, 2004
Link splurge #5
Well, if the US one counts as 4. Anyway, one more time, with content...
- It wouldn't be fair not to mention Piers Morgan finally getting the boot, so there it goes. Much as the pictures were published in good faith, it soon became pretty clear they were fakes; he could have 'fessed up, and saved, but he didn't, so it was fairly inevitable that he'd go. Hey, I think I know a job he could apply for...
- Van Helsing in 15 minutes — I went to see this with Nicky a few nights back, and have remarkably little to say. It's not a great film, it's not a bad film, and it rips off just about every movie ever made. Oh and mmmm, corsets. What's not to like?
- The Independent has switched to only producing its so-called "compact edition" as of today, further blurring the distinction between tabloid and broadsheet. I'm confident this change of format won't affect the content, though; also, they claim that 90% of their sales were already of the compact edition, so for most people the change is something of a non-event. Compact edition FT, anyone?
- natrail.pl seems to be the latest and greatest usable way to get at train timetabling information. I'm surprised sites like thetrainline don't take notice of the existence of things like this, and Matthew Somerville's alternate rail information pages and wonder just why people feel the need to create usable alternatives to what should really be simple, pointy clicky systems...
- I'm sticking with Movable Type for the forseeable future, despite their surprising licensing announcement yesterday. I've read the predictions of impending doom, the criticisms, the accusations of money-grabbing, the accusations of abandonment, and nothing has moved me sufficiently that I'm willing to spend time investigating a new blogging system. Of course, I wasn't in any great rush to upgrade to MT3 either, so perhaps it's a non-issue. Maybe in 6 months when all my friends are using WordPress or drupal, and they have the same wealth of plugins and features as my current MT setup, I'll think again.
- Had anyone else completely forgotten about these Mars rovers?
- Oh, and the X-Prize just got considerably more interesting. Unlike this entry, which stops right here.
Posted by James at 23:00
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Now's a good time to move. Wordpress already has the features, plugins and more :)
I moved to WordPress a few months ago, and it was the best thing that happened to my blog. I wrote a How To move from Movable Type to WordPress over at my blog, which might be of interest to you.
WordPress lets me do everything MT did, and the support and user community positively rock!
Posted by: Carthik at May 15, 2004 03:08 AM
Despite my claim that I wasn't going to move, I've set up a test blog for myself at http://golb.jimbo.org.uk/, to play with WP on. 'cos I'm dead decisive, me :-)
Posted by: James at May 15, 2004 12:43 PM
Forget the Mars rovers?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/opportunitygrrl/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spiritrover/
Not for a while, anyway...
Posted by: lonecat at May 15, 2004 01:50 PM
I'm somewhat put off WP now, mostly by this dodgy Carthik character who has posted a comment on just about every entry I've seen on this subject...
Posted by: James at May 17, 2004 10:08 PM