It's about that time of year again when another version of Trillian is released to replace the last semi-written version that barely manages to limp through and keep some supporters. Personally I think they have a great idea, a solid support base and resources to get this right, but in some sort of attempt at money grabbing it fails. The main problem is bugs, glitches and crashes in a program that costs $25 when the original clients are free. Are my standards too high or do I just want software I'm meant to pay for to work? Last time I complained I was told to pay for the pro version so they could continue to work on it. Try finish it before selling it?

Hopefully they won't go the way of the rest of the IM clients and just add useless bulky features on top of a buggy sub-standard core. Perfect the core and add the ability to extend via plugins with a good API and some tutorials and you're set. If I so much as see the word 'wink' in the next release I'm going to just start write my own basic client to use. I know exactly what I want in a chat client and I know I can make it. Just give me a reason...
Maz

Heh, yeah. I decided to go looking for information about some features I might like in my CMS and maybe so ideas on how to structure it before I came across.. Komodo CMS. Now for $70,000 (that't not a decimal), you can get an enterprise edition of.. a CMS. Here is the feature list and to be honest, it's not very impressive. Add to the the fact that you have to pay for the additional modules (at extremely high prices considering what they are) and the end result is a reason to use crappy static html pages and just pay someone to edit them full time. Coz that's rediculous.

Trillian is crashing every few seconds. And they want $25 before they'll give any support. Well I don't know about anyone else but I'm not going to pay for end user software that is shit so the developers can fix it. If the trial is crap it doesn't say a whole lot for the pro version. If anyone has paid for it, let me know if it was worth it.
Maz

After excessive amounts of pressure from other people (I don't know why anyone cares), but I joined last.fm and started collecting music stats. It was cool for about 5 minutes except the site 404's 50% of the time. And now apparently audioscrobbler has stuffed itself. I was playing music (as one does) and I noticed it wasn't updating my profile. I eventually get sick of it enough to find out what the problem is and this is what I got from the log file..

No idea why or how it went wrong. Any suggestions of how to fix it... let me know?

In my wonderful travels of the internet I came across a blog post (by Frankarr) about an article that Computerworld ran about corporate blogging. Basically the general idea is that big companies are trying to stop employees blogging because of the possible PR nightmare and to reduce the risk of information leaks.

As far as the information leaks go, it's sad that employees can't be trusted to keep sensitive information out of the public forums, (which will shun them for betraying their company). Most of the problems can be solved with a few options:
1. Make the individual responsible for what they write. If they're going to have a corporate blog, make sure their name is on it.
2. Educate staff on what is considered good policy: "Blog smart" - Frank Arrigo

In a lot of discussions with other students, the topic of 'Is your blog a liability in the job search' comes up almost too frequently, with little or no indication of how blogging is percieved by most companies. One can only hope that corporations will embrace the blogging masses instead of shying away from what may be a useful community.