I am aware there are numerous people who have, for various reasons, become disgruntled with blogging host Today.com.

Some time ago, the company laid off a rather large section of its most popular and active writers, leading to numerous speculations over their ultimate motives. Well, I am here, at the risk of being lambasted or even losing my Today.com account, to put the record straight and say to these people — in the nicest possible way — what the heck did you expect?

Now, I am quite fortunate (?!) to have been screwed over in the past by certain web hosts by virtue of neglecting to read the small print, blundering blindly forward without a care in the world, and am not one of the said bloggers laid off by Today. At least not yet. I’d like to think, however, that my (bad) experiences have given me a little bit of insight about how the business works – you scratch my back, I scratch yours; you get nothing for nothing and any other such cliche you could care to mention.

When you sign up to Today.com, you enter into an agreement that basically means you represent Today.com by the very fact your blog is hosted under their name on their server. If you violate the Terms of Service, you can expect to be notified and perhaps even warned, just like in the real life workplace.

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As regular readers of the Illarterate blog (yes, I know some of you do exist, even if only in my deluded mind) might have noted before now, one particular subject I’ve been particularly outspoken about is the analogue-digital television switchover currently in operation in the United Kingdom.

For the past few years, I’ve made it pretty clear that I am not in favour of this change, though mostly this has been for comedic effect and in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Nevertheless, I am going to miss analogue with its snowy reception and (relatively) lo-def resolution.

Seems I’m not the only one, either. For the benefit of those finding it difficult to cope with all this new fangled digital television thing, I present to you a series of mildly humorous articles — written by the very same person sat typing this post right now — which you may or may not find interesting.

• How to retune your set top box: Having problems rescanning Freeview? Struggling to find the menu button because the label rubbed off in the first week? You’ll probably find this guide useful.

• More tips for retuning your set top box: Still struggling? Here are some more tips, released just in time for the November retune. Many are still applicable, so act now before the BBC blow your box up without your permission!

• The Great Digital Switchover Scam: How this whole thing is a conspiracy set up by the BBC to make us buy brand spanking new, state-of-the-art equipment we don’t necessarily need, just so they can fund more episodes of Strictly Come Prancing.

• September 30th Freeview retune – thousands lose channels: How the BBC are not only ripping us off, but also making us take time out of our day to execute a complicated series of button presses just so we can watch the News at Ten.

• Surviving the Digital Switchover: more general tips covering High Definition televisions and DVD cassette players.

• Teletext to meet early demise: Opinions on the news that Teletext will cease as of January next year. It should be noted that BBCi will still keep going, however, at least until they too deem their interactive text service no longer profitable.

Just a quick word for a blog I started up months ago but never gave the time it deserved. Up until now, I’ve been posting glitched up stuff on the Illarterate blog, but I’ve decided to give Autoglitcher another chance, at least for a while. I’ll look to retrospectively post some of my glitch art excursions from the past few months if I can get round to it this weekend.

As the title suggests, this site’s all about interesting glitches in television, video games and general media. The idea of autoglitching relates to those glitches you seemingly stumble across or have little input in, especially those created completely by accident.

A must for all fans of glitch art, even if I do say so myself.