Fancy trying out the new Windows Live Messenger? Well, in the generous tradition of P-2006, we have a bunch of invites that we’re just giving away. How can you get your hands on these veritable golden tickets, the likes of which have not been seen since a certain chocolatier opened the doors of his factory to ten guests? Simply email competition[at]meewella.com with your desired email address for addition. But there is a catch. When the email is read, your MSN display name must include a reference to P-2006 or meewella.com. If not, your entry will be ignored. So it couldn’t be simpler, really. Despite being a beta, WLM is incredibly stable and I’ve had no issues with it at all yet. So enter for the chance to experience the future of instant messaging now.

Luke pointed out that the new site design did not display any link to the RSS feed. This has now been remedied with the Feeds page, which allows you to select your preferred flavour of syndication. Firefox users, as always, can create a live bookmark. Like me you may not immediately have noticed that in Firefox 1.5 the icon for creating live bookmarks has moved to the top of the sreen, at the right side of the address bar.

Now you are probably familiar with fascinating procrastination device that is Google Video, an archive to which anyone may submit their own videos, resulting in a repository of old TV ads, amusing news stories, and weird webcam sing-alongs. The latter may or may not be a positive thing. On Monday Guy came over from The Other Place to Tabland or whatever it is those people call it. While chatting over a couple of hot drinks in Café Nero, we both found ourselves looking up and shaking our heads at the sound of Pachelbel’s Canon drifting lazily from the speakers. It immediately conjured for us both memories of Whitgift String Orchestra, at whose concerts its performance was a staple, albeit under the none too subtle nickname Packard Bell’s Canon. And by some bizarre confluence of musical mysticism it was that evening I came across Canon Rock on Google Video. Now if only Mr. Winter had considered that at the Royal Albert Hall…