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Just in case you didn’t know about it… If you’re doing /anything/ with Javascript you really really need to install Firebug. It is truly awesome.

So - Glos have maintained their unbeaten record in the Premiership, and against the old enemy at that (perhaps the one match that secretly we all worried we would lose). Glos 27 Wasps 21. What’s particularly heartening is Dean Ryan’s comments about Anthony Allen:

…the conversations we had with England were that if they were going to pick him they had to stick with him and they haven’t…

The appalling performance of England over these last few weeks wasn’t made any better by today’s extremely scrappy and very fortunate win over South Africa. Robinson has to go, and the Gloucester boys (Richards, Forrester, Hazel, Allen, Vickery, Balshaw and so on) have made a very good fist of being stuck in a messed up dressing room that Rob Andrew has to sort ASAFP. Anthony Allen shouldn’t worry about being dropped - there’s a change a-coming, and it’s not going to kill his career, but it should stop a few others.

It’s not a good week for EMI. Profits down 62% on last year. Fraud in their Brazilian operation costs them $9million. Robbie’s latest album is doing less than half the units of its predecessor. It’s all looking pretty grim, but there’s more… The story we all really care about… They were the only major not to buy into Youtube and have now inked a deal with Gotuit instead.

Plone for Content Managers claims to be the first book written for the people that actually end up using Plone, rather than developers. This is a book that I’ve been waiting for so long that I’ve attempted to write myself more than a few times. Unfortunately it’s only available from Amazon US at the moment, so it’ll be a while before I can tell you if it’s actually any good. Check the Isotoma blog in about 36 days

I had assumed this was a joke, but it looks like it’s not. Season Shot.

Although the content isn’t quite what I expected. UUUHHHGGG-rrrr!

TechCrunch gets a cease and desist from, of all people, YouTube. This is decidedly weird.

Apparently it’s hard to tell the difference.

Not that Andrew Orlowski has any respect for bloggers and thus is unlikely to feel unduly stung by this post, but here’s another example of The Register’s strange strange attitude to Open Source from today’s piece on OSS vs Novell:

Whatever you may say about them (and they rarely produce a piece of software usable by someone not already suffering from Asperger’s) free software developers draw a quality benchmark for what’s permissible for others to code and share.

I mean really. It’s not big, clever or necessary.

No, really, an air guitar. Sweet.