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The new year is upon us and with it, a special gift for XBit, a brand new bug! It seems the code that handles downloading new issues from the TidBITS FTP server had a slight oversight in it. The result, no new issues for you! That such a simple bug could so impair the functionality! Anyway, the application has been updated and downloading should work once again.

On the topic of XBit, I’ve been playing with a handful of ideas for the next major release. Nothing has been hammered out yet but it will probably be Panther only.

I thought the recent move to my new host had gone smoothly. Everything looked good and I was happy how quickly it all came together. The end of year holiday season is rather hectic after all. Not as much face time with the iBook as I usually have. So I was rather surprised today to discover that my RSS feed and archive pages were missing in action. How lame is that!? I had neglected to bring across my htaccess file. Argh!

Everything should be working now…

We’ll I think I’ve made a decision regarding my forced move away from Bloghosts. I’ve opened an account with A Small Orange and I’ve been playing with the account over the last few weeks. Things seem to be in order and their response times are good so over the next few weeks I’ll be moving this blog and all my other sites over to them. Hopefully all will go smoothly. Unfortunately, if you’re looking for a new web host, they have recently stopped accepting new customers. Something about reorganizing to handle future growth. They may still be accepting new customers via email though so if you’re really interested it’s worth a shot. Leave my name as your referrer and I’ll get a month of free hosting.

This is just too funky not to love. It’s good to know that gadget geeks in Japan are keeping that childhood dream of an amazing and fantastic future alive.

Well it was probably too good to be true. My web host is closing its doors. I’ve been happy with Bloghosts since I found them earlier this year. They’ve always been responsive and the service has never left me wanting more. The price was definitely right! Then recently I noticed a distinct lack of any activity on their RSS feed. I decided to load up the home page and what do you know, I have to get packing. The only thing that scares me is that, had I not decided on a whim to check out the page, all of my sites (including those I run for clients) would have suddenly gone dark on January 1st. I’ve had that experience before with an outfit called Eryxma Networks and I hope to avoid anything like it in the future.

The phone that I was most keen on last month when looking to upgrade was the V602. It takes beautiful pictures and has a nice clean design. I would have picked it up for sure if only it could get a signal in my office. That said, when I stumbled on this over at Engadget today, I found it rather amusing…

Naked-watching is not officially endorsed by Vodafone.

Good to know. I’ll have to warn all the girls at work.