I have just finished upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.3. As of now I have only completed the actual migration – I have yet to start taking advantage of any of the new features of version 2.3 (such as tags) so expect those to be slowly rolled out this week.

I have also started work on a completely revised theme for the site which I hope to get finished in the next week or so. I’m using The Morning After as a base and making some pretty heavy customisations as well as a bunch of cosmetic changes. The interesting thing is that many aspects of the theme are a step backwards for me in some ways, such as the CSS being far more complex than it needs to be and the semantics of the markup being all out of wack. Still, it’s a good base visually and structurally.

It’s taken a while but Futurama will finally be returning to a TV screen near you. Amazon has product information listed for Futurama the Movie – Bender’s Big Score, with a release date November 27th. I can’t wait!

There is a new 2.2 release of Julien Lecomte’s fantastic YUI Compressor for minifying JavaScript. This version has some modified command line parameters and has further improved support for safely minifying JavaScript code.

Download here

Robert Jordan, the pen name of author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., died earlier today (by my local time). I read many of the books of the Wheel of Time series and it saddens me to hear of the author’s passing. My condolences to his friends and family.

While I wasn’t a real fan of the aforementioned series I did enjoy reading about the mythology of the world Robert Jordan created and liked to “check in” with the progress of the plot. Apparently Jordan left instruction revealing the intended progression of the story so that when, inevitably, another author is brought in to finish the work they can complete the final volume how it was originally envisaged.

Microsoft opens up test suites and development assistance for Moonlight, AMD opens up the specifications for their ATI GPUs and now QNX have announced they will open up the code for their Neutrino operating system! Has the world gone open crazy?

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The title for the next Indiana Jones film has been announced: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I am of mixed feelings about this movie. Yes we’ve got the old hands on board (notably Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford) and it’s Indiana Jones, which is totally awesome, but it is 20 years since the last film came out. We’ve seen what can happen when you try to restart a series after so long. *cough*Star Wars*cough*