Gary Kirk

This has been an interesting week. Firefox 2.0 was released on Wednesday with new features, themes and…stuff. (I haven’t tried it so I don’t know - but it’s bound to be good, isn’t it?) Nearly two years since the original Firefox was released, out of Phoenix and previously Firebird - built on the Mozilla Suite. Notice how they haven’t made a huge fuss about it like Microsoft have with IE7.

Installing MediaWiki on my new 1&1 hosting package was disappointing - they don’t have PHP 5. Angela Beesley recommended HostGator.com, so once I cancel my contract I’ll be going with them. Yes, you can have subdomains if you want!

Finally, I copyedited Wikizine this week. It’s a short, to-the-point plain text newsletter about Wikimedia.

This week: My RfA failed, but not miserably. I’d say most of the comments were justified, and where editors made seemingly random and unfair comments I’ve asked them to clarify. So far they haven’t…

Final thing: Firefox 2.0 RC3 was released today. Not having a computer, I haven’t been able to download and test it, but, hopefully I’ll find some people who have and link to their sites soon.

Update: Microsoft released IE7 today. Over 18 months and three betas since Bill announced it in early 2005, we have it!

Various news this first week. First, Google is going to buy YouTube. What this means for Google and YouTube is yet to be seen, but it is known the site will keep its own branding and 67 members of staff at the headquearters they recently moved into. So, like Writely is at the moment - no great “Google Write” re-branding or anything. - Update: Late last night Google merged Writely with Google Spreadsheets and relaunched as Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Maybe people will be able to log in to YouTube with their Google Account, in time, pre-empting some sort of merge with Google Video. On a side note, I first blogged about Google Video back in March 2005!

The other thing is my Request for Adminship on the English Wikipedia, which ends this Friday.

Ever since starting this other blog, I have loved WordPress. When I found free hosting, I used it to create The Amusement Blog, which is hosted on the same server as this one. That is of course still active and live, but I wanted to blog about technology. So, here we go. Another second, another new blog in the blogosphere.