Akismet lost performance?

Christian Decker wrote this in the late afternoon:
I’m really happy how Akismet worked in the past, it protected me from nearly 100′000 spam messages, but lately I noticed that a lot of blatant spam messages (3 words, one link) get through. Am I the only one that noticed this? It’s getting pretty tedious having to delete spam comments every 5 minutes.

Amarok 2 gains iTunes support

Christian Decker wrote this in the wee hours:
Great news from the Amarok 2 developers:

The Amarok Team is happy to announce that Amarok 2 will come with native support for the itunes music store. Utilizing the new Scriptable Service framework, Amarok developers have utilized a development model known as creative backwards engineering to develop a C# script and obtain full compatability with the itunes music store. This support is already availible in our subversion sources, and will be released in the next version of Amarok. As a warning, there appears to be a small bug currently where users are not charged for the music they purchase and download. We are working dillegently to fix this problem, and will commit a fix as soon as possible. Thank you for flying Amarok!

I’m immediately heading over to the Amarok Subversion repository and check out the newest version :)