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The website is updated. What changed?
- The URL’s contain permalinks
- Comment and Trackbackspam is over (praying) thanks to the collective Akismet anti-spam database
- The website renders better on IE
- CSS and HTML a little bit more W3C compliant
- Textsize is relative
- Directly publishing from the desktop via OPML and Outliner
I’m finally updating this websites build on Wordpress 1.? to the (much better) latest version, which sadly requires me to rebuild all CSS templates.
You can check the work in progress here.
And while Sony is still figuring out a right DRM-system for blue-ray that makes every contentowner happy. Microsoft makes a big step forward in interactive storytelling by contracting a movie director.
BBC: Director Jackson signs Xbox deal

Short animation for de Volkskrant. Probo Koala, the trail of a toxic ship (Dutch).
“The rise of the web transformed hypertext—which allows readers to click on a word in one document and be transported to another—from an obscure concept in computer science to a familiar, everyday technology. Might hypervideo—which lets viewers click on a moving image to call up a related clip—be on the verge of a similar transformation?”
The Economist: From hypertext to hypervideo