My interest in a new MMORPG called Ryzom was sparked by an O'Rielly article. I went to the site, and was interested in becoming a beta tester; that is, until I spied a clause in the NDA stating, "(3) You acknowledge that Wanadoo Portails may, in its discretion, charge a fee for the Beta Software and/or participation in the Beta Test Program, and your participation in the Beta Test Program is contingent on your payment of such fee(s)"

What kind of nonsense is this? And here I was all excited about a MMORPG that actually respected and cared for it's community, but just turned out to be the same old story.

Well, the Xforms thing was interesting. The slashdot crowd is varied, but I think that most of them are very first-order programmers who don't want to think too abstractly - the bottom line is that XForms is a technology that will be great with appropriate tools support. The idea is very sound! Of course, I am also writing this journal entry to see how two entries look next to each other. Did I mention that Goldfrapp just rocks? goldfrapp.co.uk, baby!

I've only recently subscribed to Slashdot after a long stint of interested lurking. All of the options are fascinating, and I look forward to playing with them! In the meantime, I'd like to see exactly where this journal is posted, who gets to look at it, and how it appears. Ah, I see, there is a preview button in a similiar manner to the Twiki product. Very nice. Now if they only had spell checking...