NetNewsWire 1.0.1fc1 fixes a weblog editor bug with saving drafts and includes a couple other minor changes.
See the change notes for the whole scoop.
This is a final candidate release. We?re looking for deal-stopper bugs, bugs bad enough to prevent this from being released as 1.0.1.
Once 1.0.1 is released, we?ll go back to fixing bugs‹and also adding new features, such as supporting more Movable Type options, allowing Radio users to specify that a post shouldn?t go on a home page, and so on. [inessential.com]

Damn, looks like it maybe a while.

Here it is, shame Im too crap to work out how to get it going. Oh well I guess Ill try again on the morrow.

Irate Scotsman has done a version of PHPosxom and is after a new name.

You may already have seen this as its pretty old news, but the Chemical Brothers Star Guitar Video is pretty damn mental. Its a train journey and everything is synced with the sound. Requires Quicktime, but im sure you all already have that.

Image 2 - What the hell?

This is the back of my Apple 17in Studio Display monitor. Obviously noised up and stuff.

No reply from my last email to AOL asking them to remove me from their mailing list so fingers crossed I wont get anymore CDs.

A gift from me to you via someone else.

Labels Think Apple Has Perfect Pitch
Executives of major record firms believe a speedy, simple online music service for Mac users will be a hit.
By Jon Healey, Times Staff Writer

Top executives at the major record companies have finally found an online music service that makes them excited about the digital future - but it’s only for Macs.
The new service was developed by Apple Computer Inc., sources said Monday, and offers users of Macintoshes and iPod portable music players many of the same capabilities that already are available from services previously endorsed by the labels. But the Apple offering won over music executives because it makes buying and downloading music as simple and non-technical as buying a book from Amazon.com.
“This is exactly what the music industry has been waiting for,” said one person familiar with the negotiations between the Cupertino, Calif., computer maker and the labels. “It’s hip. It’s quick. It’s easy. If people on the Internet are actually interested in buying music, not just stealing it, this is the answer.”
That ease of use has music executives optimistic that the Apple service will be an effective antidote to surging piracy on the Internet, sources said.
Other legitimate music services have cumbersome technology and pricing plans - motivated in part by the labels’ demands for security - that make them much harder to use than unauthorized online services, such as the Kazaa file-sharing system.
Although no licensing deals have been announced, sources close to the situation say at least four of the five major record companies have committed their music to the Apple service. It could be launched next month.
As promising as the new service is, however, there is a big limitation. Apple’s products account for just a sliver of the total computer market - less than 3% of the computers sold worldwide are Macs. The vast majority of the potential audience for downloadable music services uses machines that run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on the service Monday, as did representatives from the five major record corporations - Sony Corp.’s Sony Music Entertainment, Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music Group, AOL Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Music Group, Bertelsmann’s BMG division and EMI Group.
The new service is so important to Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs that he personally demonstrated it to top executives at all five companies, sources said. More than a dozen music executives have visited Apple since last summer and came away enthusiastic.
The executives also like the massive marketing plan designed by Jobs to educate consumers about the service.
The plan contrasts sharply with Apple’s previous marketing campaign for Macs, which rankled many music executives who felt it promoted piracy. Apple’s advertisements were emblazoned with the mantra “rip, mix, burn,” referring to the computers’ ability to copy songs and record them onto CDs.
Although the iPod has been hailed by many critics as the best portable music player on the market, Mac users have been overlooked by most of the label-backed online music services, including Pressplay, MusicNet and Listen.com Inc.’s Rhapsody.
As a result, Mac users may find it easier to make unauthorized, free copies of songs through an online file-sharing service like LimeWire than to buy a copy through a label-sanctioned service. Apple hopes to change that situation with its new service, which is expected to be included in an updated edition of the iLife package of digital music, photo and movie software.
Sources said Apple will make the songs available for sale through a new version of iTunes, its software for managing music files on Macs. Users will be able to buy and download songs with a single click and transfer them automatically to any iPod they’ve registered with Apple.
Rather than make the songs available in the popular MP3 format, Apple plans to use a higher fidelity technology known as Advanced Audio Codec.
That approach allows the songs to be protected by electronic locks that prevent them from being played on more than one computer. Still, sources say, Apple wants to enable buyers to burn songs onto CDs. That feature would effectively remove the locks.
That’s been a sticking point for executives at Sony, sources said. The other four major record companies, however, appear ready to license their music to the new service.
No details were available on the price of the service, although one source said it would be competitive with other services in the market. Pressplay, for example, charges just under $10 a month for unlimited downloads, plus about $1 for each song that can be burned to CD or transferred to a portable device.

You have to sign up to read it. Seems interesting, I shall certainly be condsidering it.

New trailer is up. GO see it.

New Macromedia site is up looks very slick.

Image 1 - wtf?

What can I say? Its my gas pipes, yes gas pipes.

Insane Clown Posse - The Wraith is an antidote the the current glut of vapor music.

I heartily endorse a visit to www.patrickbennett.us theres some good desktops and a slick flash interface to-boot.

I insist you go to banksy now! Go on! Now! Oi! Quicker!

I got a reply from AOL,

I’ll pass your request to the Marketing team, however I’m pretty sure that the mailing database is bought in from an external company.

Then slightly confused, I replied,

So can I remove both my home and work addresses from the AOL database?

(or Similar)

And my last reply from AOL was,

Apparently it is possible to remove your name from our mailing list. Are you a member or a non-member? If you are a non-member I’ll need a full name and address to be removed from our database.

Which is excellent, seems i can. Ive sent both my home and work address and not specfied names, as I dont want any AOL CDs to either of those. Hopefully this will be successful and I wont get anymore. I wonder how many others ask not to be sent CDs. I think I might ask in the next email.

There’s a new version of PHPetal. The major change is that it (optionally) pings weblogs.com after posting. I needed to add a couple new configuration settings in order to implement this. Anyone interested may download it here. Remember, this is still rather experimental, so please let me know (jbaty@fusionary.com) if you run into any problems.

Now ive sent a message through the comments system, but Ill probably have to phone them.

Its not enough that AOL stick their CDs in any magazine they can im now fed up getting AOL CDs in the post to my home and work. They even had the cheek to send my a completely uneconomic DVD style box. So to this end ive emailed them and asked if theres a way to stop AOL sending them to me.
First update, the email address i got from AOL UK - ukbillb@aol.com - doesnt work… good start.

My work Mac just updated me to Safari 0.62 in the Software Update, I had already installed the one thats been floating around the net. However my iBook, which I had also installed 0.62 from the web on, doesnt see this version in Software Update. Had i imagined it?

… if there were a Safari v62, and it did happen to leak to the public, and someone did happen to run it, and that person did happen to discover a bug with text-decoration, well then I would hypothetically be most grateful, and would in fact fix such a bug with the utmost expedience. In fact, it might even be fixed already, assuming of course there were such a build, and it did in fact have this problem. [Surfin’ Safari]

Tetsoo.com is a pretty mad bonkers site with some great desktops and movies.