I'm half-watching Elton John's concert from Madison Square Garden. The BBC are broadcasting highlights from the concert. It takes me back. All the old classics from the back catalogue performed live with special guests like Kiki Dee, Billy Joel, Ronan Keating, Bryan Adams. It's just finished. Time to post this or I'll miss a Sunday posting.

The subscribe/unsubscribe interface for Conversant can now be invoked by e-mail as announced here:

Conversant "conversations" have always had the ability to act like mailing lists (as well as web sites and newsgroups), but until now it's been a little bit too difficult to sign up for the "mailing list" side of things. No longer! Now, it's as easy as it is with any other mailing list: just send an email to the site's "subscribe" address.

You can now sucbscribe to this site by e-mailing this subscribe address and, of course, unsubscribe but you don't want to do that do you ;-)?

Also as part of MISS Month there's now an improved prefs interface

Improvements include:

• Tab-panel interface, so that prefs are displayed in smaller, more focused groupings
• Contextual help (help links next to almost every item in the preferences)

The Member Pages have undergone improvement too. And for me the Conversant Manager interface is now easier to assimilate and use.

Many thanks Macrobyte.

The Register: Gateway to unveil Linux-based AOL box Friday

Gateway will take the wraps off its Transmeta-based, AOL-oriented Net appliance tomorrow [Friday], company sources have claimed.

The announcement will follow today's alliance between Gateway and chip-maker Broadcom, which will see the duo co-develop systems capable of pumping streamed digital audio and video content to a variety of consumer electronics devices, such as TVs, PCs and (hint, hint) Internet appliances.

Here's the original Gateway AOL Internet Appliances to Be Powered by Transmeta's Crusoe Processor press release. So far no official announcement about the launch of the IA - understandable since the USA is still asleep at the time of this post.