Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

It has been a week of welcome developments. First came the release of version 2.5 of Movable Type (MT), the content management system that drives Rainy Day and hundreds, nay, thousands of other blogs. What began as a hobby for Ben and Mena Trott, that talented and handsome San Francisco couple, has become a business of the nicest kind — one that allows people from all over the world to fashion and exchange ideas while drawing upon the immense power of the global network.

My upgrade to MT 2.5 was not without its perplexing moments, but the MT Support Forum is staffed by kind and brilliant people who can whip up an answer quicker than you can say "Movable Type" when confronted with this kind of scary error message:

"Unsupported driver MT::ObjectDriver::DBI::mysql: Can't locate MT/ObjectDriver/DBI/mysql.pm"

Everything is running smoothly now and I look forward to exploring such exciting MT 2.5 additions as "TrackBack auto-discovery", which can automatically find TrackBack ping URLs based on permalinks in entry bodies, and the whole localization side of things: the MT interface is now available in multiple languages, including Spanish, thanks to Eduardo Arcos Barredo.

Speaking of Spanish, in this week of good news ECOS, that excellent Munich-based magazine for learners and lovers of the language of Cervantes and Lorca, Ra?d Morientes, is now online. At a time when many people will be celebrating Columbus' discovery of the New World, Juan Ramó® ‡arcí¡ Ober and his colleagues have put together a site that reflects the wealth of the Iberian heritage while making admirable use of the technologies which are opening up new worlds for so many of us. To all at ECOS: ?Mucha suerte!