iPhone coming to UK, but not for another 7½ agonizing weeks

Well. Most of the rumours have proved to be true. The carrier of the UK iPhone will indeed be O2, and apart from O2 shops (including the recently-acquired The Link shops) the only independent retailer will be Carphone Warehouse. The phone will be identical to the $399 8GB US model.
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Rich Text (HTML) signatures in Mail.app

I was recently asked to help with setting up an HTML signature in Mail.app. "No problem", I thought. Unfortunately after a few quick attempts I quickly discovered that Mail.app's signature system is atrocious. Typing in plain text signatures (all I've ever done prior to this) is easy. Entering an Rich Text¹ signature is not.
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Comment closure

This site has been experiencing a sudden upsurge in comment spam over the last week or so. I puzzled over it for a while before realising that I had upgraded this site from Movable Type 3.16 to 3.35 recently. A couple of test comments later I had established that the upgrade had broken my SCode installation. Pretty bloody annoying, to say the least. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be fixable, and furthermore there appears to be no working captcha solution for MT 3.3+, so commenting will be closed while I investigate the options.

Incidentally while trying to fix this I discovered that last year Arvind Satyanarayan had updated James Seng's original SCode 0.1c (which I was using until last week) to work with MT3.2 and re-christened it SCode 1.0, however after installing it today I am forced to conclude that it was broken by the introduction of MT 3.3. In any case it is irrelevant, since the new versions is now no longer supported by Arvind. Unfortunately you have to jump through a few hoops (email registration) to get to the plugin download page and when you do finally arrive there is no mention (despite several prominent PayPal donation buttons ) of this useful information.

Parallels Desktop 3 hasn't impressed everyone...

Or as one user so eloquently put it:

It is a f@#king useless, steaming freshly laid turd of a program with more bugs than a congolese jungle.

I've decided to hold off upgrading for the moment

From iMovie to YouTube, a.s.a.p.

Imagine this, if you will. You've put together your iMovie masterpiece and want to share it with friends and family. No problem, fire it through to iDVD and send them a DVD - right? But suppose it's a very short clip, or the friends and relatives in question are more of the 'casual acquaintance' variety? Is it still appropriate to physically send a DVD? This was the quandary I was in (short clips, not casual relatives) - so I decided to make use of YouTube.
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This post isn't about Twitter

Okay, I lie, it is ... kind of. Mike over at industry watcher TechDirt has an interesting article on the demise of Tello and corresponding rise of Twitter. As is the norm for TechDirt, the article is a densely-packed single head-expanding paragraph with very little 'fluff'.