Over at the BBC Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy site, you can now (after too many long years) listen to the first new HHGTTG episodes (direct link: RealPlayer or WMP). This takes up from where the original series left off, at the end of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Note that the late and much lamented Douglas Adams himself appears in the series: he recorded his voice playing his favourite part before he died suddenly of a heart attack in 2001.
Also at the site, you can play the re-tooled HHGTTG interactive computer game, originally written by Adams and published by Infocom back in the 1980’s (the source of many long nights and seemingly endless laughter for me in my teens).
September 24th, 2004
Microsoft: To secure IE, upgrade to XP | CNET News.com
This makes me rather angry. Security is not something that you should have to pay for, especially if you’ve already laid down your hard-earned cash for a product. Understood, it’s not feasible for most businesses to support 10-year-old software like Windows 95, but the 200 million people still using Windows 98, ME and 2000 should not be left open to viruses, trojans and other forms of malware just because they haven’t doled out the money for an upgrade that just wouldn’t be worthwhile to them. Surely a business like Microsoft can issue patches to older versions of Internet Explorer: they certainly have the experience and the manpower to do it. This is just another “forced upgrade” with a large price tag attached.
If you’re one of these 200 million people not running Windows XP, get Firefox.
September 24th, 2004