Another season of Aussie Rules has started and the regular tipping contest I have with my mate Steve in Melbourne is also underway, unfortunately I'm currently third and last (we have a virtual player who only tips based on the current ladder position, and he's beating me too). Also Real Footy now seem to want you to register to read their stories so it looks like I'll be going elsewhere for my news fixes; I don't register for news stories anywhere as a matter of a principle. They can find some other mugs to sell their ads to...

On the plus side, my team the Brisbane Lions are picking up where they left off and are already heading in the right direction to win their fourth successive grand final, although it's very early days yet. Another plus point is that Bet 365 now take Aussie Rules bets - I'm sure they didn't last year - I reckon this could be a profitable season!

The best laid plans of mice and men...

Well, I was going to upgrade to pyblosxom 0.9 a week or so back, but I got busy and there were reports of a few minor bugs, so I held off and pyblosxom 0.9.1 released. I guess I've got no excuses now.

Nice job lads! The old Register design was ok in a retro no-nonsense sort of way, but the new design just looks far cleaner and more modern. It appears that they've added some nice structural changes too, the permalinks are now meaningful rather than being just a jumble of numbers, the page titles carry a hint about the current story - exceedingly useful when one has dozens of browser tabs (or browser windows for you IE victims) open - and they even claim "We're proud that The Register uses valid XHTML and CSS on its pages".

Now, who's next? There's plenty of news organisations with lamentable sites (and a few who still haven't learnt about feeds), it's great to see el Reg leading the way!