My first impression of Lockerz was that it was one of those sites. You know the ones where you fill out a billion questions on a billion different pages to get a free iPod after several billion surveys, quizzes and questionnaires. But it's not, it's a different beast. Although not that different. More like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

One of the first things you notice about it, is that it's pretty well made. You have that nice little flash game at the start, a shit lot of AJAX, and ...

I realised earlier today, that in some ways, I hammered the final nail into MMOTale's coffin. When I deleted the old site from the server, there was no longer any live version or clone of MMOT. Mip thinks this is all ok, but I'm not so sure. I've said this before, but VuTales isn't MMOTales. They may be similar, share a similar name, userbase, feel, features, etc. But they are not the same. VuTales doesn't have an MMO focus, the leadership is different, and there are extra features. But more ...

Apple is like a manipulative lover. They lure you in with the promise of love, and usability, and shininess. And for the first few weeks that's what you get.

Hey! It's shiny. Hey! The menus animate nicely. Hey! it downloads podcasts and syncs them.

But then then the honeymoon is over, and your lover reveals their true colours. You want to import a TV show or podcast, well fuck you. iTunes isn't letting you. And now you're stuck with iTunes, and iTunes loves you. iTunes is going to smash...

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Gujju's special characters break the new site. But I have no idea why! I'm using the exact same parser and SQL, and yet something is different.