This is good news, and this is even better.
If it’s too much effort to click on two links, I’ll summarise: EMI have announced all their music available digitally will soon be DRM-free. Added to this catalogue will soon be the music of the Fab Four - The Beatles. Excellent!
(I know this is a few days old but I’ve just got round to writing about it…)
I’ve been thinking about the laptop I’ll be getting for uni, and the freedom of having my own computer to use. Here’s some of the first things I’ll be installing:
I’m really excited and it’s going to be very cool 
Due to the WordPress security exploit I mentioned earlier, WaggishBLOG was taken offline for just under ten minutes this afternoon as I worked on upgrading. It’s not quite as simple as for WordPress installations within Xinki, as Waggishmab.org.uk is a separate endeavour. Anyway, it’s done now, and both are running WordPress 2.1.2.
If Wikipedia gets $100 million, here’s what they should spend it on by ZDNet’s Russell Shaw — A week ago Sunday, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales put out this enticing sounding open letter asking Wikipedia users for recommendations about how the collaborative, free online encyclopedia might spend an um, maybe-not-so-hypothetical $100 million war chest to acquire the rights to digital works. OK, Jimbo. First you should, in conjunction with experts, draw up a list […]
I’ve now seen Firefox 2.0. I like it. It’s basically all a Web browser needs to be, and is open-source too. I’m not looking to be making toast with a Web browser - I just want to browse the Web. Of course, not just browse it - create it too, but you know what I mean.
Finally, Microsoft has apparently set release dates for Windows Vista (and Office and Exchange 2007). Five years, three months and five days after XP was launched. I suppose this is good news…though it does mean I didn’t win the guess-the-launch-date contest. Actually I’ve forgotten which date I guessed…so who knows?
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.