Happy day,

Found out today  from a company other than MS that there's a new version of Live Writer and  from people other than Six Apart that there's a new beta of  Movable type  read to rock and roll.  So that's how it is   no emails, no calls  just "hey  did you hear"  which may be nice to lead a small thrill of discovery but  email seems  deader today  as a notification mechanism than anytime since I did nothing but email all day.

Onto Movable Type 4 beta

I loved MT in the early days then again when one can pay one of the authors $20 for an  install  it's hard not to like it  but over time  as I moved hosting accounts from company to company the set up , which I should have been getting good at by then,  was just a pita .. Then I fell in with a "bad'  Live Journal crowd where I languished until Wordpress wandered onto the scene.  Now I will wander back over to take a look see.

Onto my favorite hobby. Cellular co bashing. I get Amp'd up  about insulting these people.  Statements like this

"The services that we offer are tuned so they work best over the phones that we actually sell to our customers. So, for example, if you brought a phone over from T-Mobile it might not have something built into it like Cingular music or Cingular video -- or work at all, frankly, across our network,"

Steve Krom , vice president and general manager of AT&T's wireless operations  

Make it amusing to wonder if they really  believe their PR  or  are just pathological when it comes to issues of truth?

 Why would you kill a phones ability to load it's own ringtones  or take out bluetooth file transfer so that the owner can't load their own media for their own convenience?  It gets worse most carriers hobble the ability to IM even though you  sold an Internet access plan yet  demand payment for   meme type and mime type?  so you can use their preferred client... I'm not sure I'm ready to chose friends based on their carrier.  

 Thankfully unlocking phones  in most cases is not too difficult  ( and still legal though I bet they want to legislate this guy out of business) 

Cellphone users try to wrest some of carriers' control - The Boston Globe