So there are these new Oreos out called Golden Oreos. Instead of a chocolate cookie they’re like a vanilla one. And they are SO DAMN GOOD. I keep having to fight the urge to go downstairs and get one or two more.

Over a year ago I wrote a short short review of Crest of the Stars. It was one of those shows that really surprised me since I really didn’t know much about it before watching it. And it really even took a few episodes for me to really get into the show. But once I finished watching the first disk I had to go out and buy the whole series. Banner of the Stars came out a while ago at this point, but I just hadn’t had the time to see it and my DVD budget is quite small these days. Thanks to Greencine I just finished watching it and am now hungry for more.

The DVD takes place a few years after Crest of the Stars. Lafiel now commands a ship and Jinto is stationed on it at her request. There haven’t been many conflicts since the time period of the last series, but things are starting to heat up again. Unlike the first series, this one dives right into the plot with little introduction. We get to see Spoor again, which rocks as she was one of my favorite side characters from the Crest of the Stars. I’m hoping her character shows up a few more times.

It’s also nice seeing Lafiel and Jinto’s relationship still evolving some, as well as seeing how differently he interacts with her than the rest of the crew. I can’t wait to get the next volume of this and see what happens next. I give this disc a big thumbs up and highly recommend it, though I’d recommend seeing Crest of the Stars first to get to know the characters.

I was making a comment over on a friend’s Blogger hosted blog today and their comment system gives you the option to sign on. Blogger was the first automated blogging service I used, but I hadn’t logged in there in over a year and a half. So I tried logging in and it still remembered me. I even found a few old blogs I was playing with. Including the original version of this one. Pretty crazy. I wonder what other old logins of mine are still floating around out there.

This blog now requires TypeKey for comments, since I was starting to get a lot of nonsense comments that I had to clean out. Hopefully this will slow it down a little bit (and not annoy people too much).

It’s been a quiet day here in Hartford, so I’ve been playing with a few different things on my computer. The first was I got Photoshop Elements talking to my scanner, which should be handy. I was using Vuescan but updated to the latest version by mistake, which meant that my license for for a years worth of updates expired. And I didn’t have the old copy backed up (as I thought I did). Oops. Elements is where I fiddle with things I scan in anyways, so it is definitely a better fit.

I also kind of redid comments on this and my anime blog. This blog now supports TypeKey when commenting, but it isn’t required to comment (at least at the moment). My anime blog now requires TypeKey for comments, since I was starting to get a lot of nonsense comments that I had to clean out. Hopefully this will slow it down a little bit (and not annoy people too much).

Now my sirloin tips just need to finish marinating so I can do some of that grillin’ shit on mom’s new gas grill.

This morning Six Apart updated their info on pricing and licensing for Movable Type 3.0. I think it’s a step in the right direction. I’m glad they are adapting and I hope they keep listening to what people are saying. And I hope they keep doing this. I’m still not sure that the users part of it is that great. I think that most likely a lot of people are still going to be getting stuck on that. I almost think they need to have the free version be 3 blogs/3 users, the personal use one gives you 5/5, and then at the high end an unlimited use one. Maybe even one between 5/5 and unlimited. So the pricing could be free, $60, $120 (for a 15/15), $200. And they can still have special pricing for ISP/hosted situations if they want.

I’m used to seeing software priced by user from being a SysAdmin. But I think most users aren’t. They expect to be able to go out, buy a piece of software, and use it however they want (regardless of what the intended purpose of the software is). That’s one of the reasons people are so up in arms. The more I think about it the more I think it’s okay for them to have limits on the personal use license, but I think the limits have to be high enough that at least 80-85% of their users can get by with that first tier.

I will still stick with Movable Type for the time being. But I’m definitely watching the developments in other systems as well (notably WordPress). Btw, for people out there familiar with WordPress, I saw on one chart that it doesn’t support multiple blogs. True? False? Anyone?