Update Ashes

Even when it's just an upgrade to the currently installed version, after installing a new version of Firefox, it opens a new tab, indicating that you now have the latest version of it.
Too bad, they don't remove nor change the old versions' pages - so they all show the exact same announcement:



You might say it's only a minor version update, but hey - it's a security minor update. So the user should know if the version he has just installed really is the latest version.. right?

Terms of Conflicts

Just a few weeks after Microsoft announced their final version of MSN Windows Live Messenger 8.0 (and the beta of the 8.1 version), ICQ finally got their own all-shiny more-feature-loaded and heavier-than-ever new version.

So where's the catch? Well, the ICQ Terms of Service page about using passwords says:

"The ICQ staff will NEVER ask for your password"

but now, it seems that if you wanna sign up for the new beta version of ICQ 6, you must give it away:

So, what can you do now? As sad as it is, I can fairly say that unlike old times, I just don't care about it that much. It doesn't seem like they really improved anything. Once, they used to be the leaders of all the IM applications everywhere, but now ICQ are way behind their own competitors.
But I guess that's a story for some other time..

Switcing to New Blogger Beta

Though officially it's still in beta stage, the new blogger seems to be rather good.
The new features (at least as far as I can tell) are mostly for the blogger account itself - such as new and better templates, a web-based interface for editing them (instead of editing the template's HTML/CSS in a plain text editor, a-la notepad), google-style spell checker, and merging the blogger account with the google account. Also, they finally added tags ("labels") for each post!
As for now, the only features I still miss in blogger are per-post links to web2.0 sites like digg and technorati, and a side-list of all the blog's tags.
Well done, Google..

update (24.11.2006, 00:25):
It seems they do have this labels-list thingy, so I added it to the panel on the right side. Not sure if I didn't notice it before, or they've just recently added it..