August 22, 2007 Archive Entries: Speaking of Neil Gaiman, I Love Anne Hathaway, Movable Type 4.0,

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Movable Type 4.0

So Movable Type 4.0 is out. I thought it was odd that you can't purchase a personal license any more, just a business one. Don't panic though, you can still get a personal license for free but purchasing it used to get you "official" support and (it looks like) that's not available. But I was mistaken, for $49 you can get a year of support(see Anil's comment below) you just have to buy it from the business page. I really don't think I ever used the support (or at least not very often) so not a huge deal, but I think it's odd that it's hard to realize that you can buy support you just have to go to the business page. And I still think it's weird it's cheaper to buy two 5 user licenses than one 10 user license.

Plus, come fall they plan to release some kind of OpenSource version this fall, which will be very interesting...

On a side note, while I love Movable Type and I'd love to upgrade, I'll have to wait for the 4.1 release, I keep my installation too complicated and installing always brings the bugs to light (old plug-ins that break, bugs that I used to my advantage that might be fixed, and obviously the possibility of new bugs) I'll wait for the revisions so it's one less thing to worry about. Plus, I'm really afraid MT-Blacklist will stop working; it still deletes hundreds of messages a day for me with no intervention (since May of 2005 it's deleted way over one-third of a million billion spam messages that I've not even had to glance at) that with SpamLookUp keeps me sane.

Although, I must point out, everyone on-line seems to be saying that MT 4.0 is pretty painless to install...

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 12:06 AM on August 22, 2007.
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I Love Anne Hathaway

I just finally got around to watching some David Letterman and Conan O"Brian episodes, I grab them if they have a guest I like and coincidentally Anne Hathaway was on the two I picked in the TiVo. She's always fun (she was the one who made The Princess Diaries so fun) and has such an awesome smile in just about everything (movie or interview) that I've seen her in. She's currently in Becoming Jane playing Jane Austin which I think is now on my list that I've seen a few more clips on it. She's also in the new Get Smart film playing Barbara Feldman's role as Agent 99.

I usually think of her as beautiful but she was way more than that on Letterman (the stunning dress probably helped), Dave even asked her where she was going after the show, since she was clearly too much for his show ("It's just for you Dave"). Here's the clip.

Usually on these interviews I never notice the guest drink out of the glass in front of them, but on both Letterman and Conan I noticed drinking out of her mug all the time. I'm not sure why that's sticking with me so much but it really keeps popping back into my head.

I think I'm off to see Becoming Jane this week...

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 12:19 PM on August 22, 2007.
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Speaking of Neil Gaiman

Yesterday, I commented on how I haven't heard much about Neil Gaiman being tied to the Stardust Movie even though he wrote the book. And I think that's strange. Here's something stranger, but shows you his diversity in projects: This album, called "Where's Neil When You Need Him?", has 17 songs about his stories by a bunch of different artists (including Tori Amos). Here's the description on Amazon -

A unique collaboration between a collection of talented musicians and a best-selling author. Seventeen top international acts offer 17 exclusive songs inspired by the diverse work of Neil Gaiman. Includes a lavish 20 page booklet with extensive liner notes from Neil Gaiman about the project and each of the songs and an assortment of all new artwork from Dave McKean, as well as a foreword by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. The songs on this disc are inspired by Gaiman stories including Coraline, American Gods, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Stardust, The Goldfish Pool, Sandman, The Wolves in the Walls, Mr. Punch, Mirror Mask and Neverwhere.

Seriously, who ends up with something like that?!? How is he not getting more recognition on this?

His stuff is kinda complicated and you've really got to pay attention, so don't be afraid to start with the kid books, they've got all the cool art by Dave McKean too!