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This post at Boing Boing:

The transcript on CNet is amazing and shameful; like many geeks, I identify to some extent with the people who make up these companies. For better or for worse, they’re part of my tribe. It’s embarrassing to read their dismal defenses of raw greed at any cost…

I mean really. Read the transcript at CNET. The guy’s a complete tosser. Bandstanding of the worst sort. Cory has this absolutely completely and utterly wrong.

Possibly as early as 2007. Other good news in the same article is the likely dropping of the ridiculous super sub rule. All we need now is to drop Zimbabwe and Bangladesh and go to a 6 year cycle rather than 5 and world cricket will be sorted (at least until the next stupid idea).

My plan for this is to move all my Zope and Plone related posts to a new blog (written in TurboGears no less) very soon, but until I do…

If you have just migrated from Plone 2.0.5 to Plone 2.1.x and now have the rather odd effect that the ‘sharing’ tab on your ATContentTypes content items is raising a 404 not found you need to do the following:

In the ZMI:

• Select portal_types
• Select the aliases tab
• Go to the bottom of the screen and click save changes

And lo! your sharing tabs work again. Plone 2.0.5 uses CMF 1.4.7, and the concept of aliases were introduced in CMF 1.5 (Plone 2.1.x uses CMF 1.5.5). The ATContentTypes in Plone 2.1.x assume aliases exist, yet they are actually set up and managed in CMF, meaning that they don’t migrate correctly without being manually poked.

You really can buy everything from ebuyer nowadays, can’t you?

Good Lord. Go and have a look at writely. It really is quite something. As an absolute die hard MS Word evangelist (despite my new open source endeavours) I’m not yet convinced. But… if this is what we have today, imagine what we will be getting tomorrow. And will it be Microsoft Live! that delivers it? I’m guessing not.

I propose a new emoticon:

\\nn/: ‘Rocking out’. Used to describe exactly how metal a particular comment, activity or record is.

Just this time it’s sponsored by the Goverment. Avoid ‘creeping compulsion’ by renewing your passport now.

Not that it’ll be any better in 10 years, but at least you’ll not have had your identity stolen simply by walking past a hopped up RFID reader during that time. And you never know, the technology used for the crushing of civil liberties may only be accessible to the Government by then, rather than any number of enterprising security experts, legal or illegal.

3D rooms. Some of them look a bit iffy to be real. Having said that, there’s a restaurant we used to eat in occassionally in London that had the most fantastic trompe l’oeuil on the wall in a similar vein.

This time anagrammed. The Bakerloo line is a particularly strong source of entertainment.

I’ve just realised that The Island is a movie version of Michael Marshall Smith’s fantastic Spares. Hmm. I’d heard a few years ago that he was working on the screenplay. Given the press that The Island has got it sounds like he may have been wasting his time. You should read his books though.