Yeah, back again from Thuringia Forrest, nice holidays with family and friends. Some pictures available soon!

Dare Obasanjo was very productive over the holidays: please read and comment about SIAM and feed Uri scheme. Somewhat unpleasantly are the problems Roy Osherove reports about RSS Bandit. Dare Obasanjo has already answered most of them and also fixed some of the issues. Comment: one of the reasons we moved the project from GDN to SF was in order to facilitate work for contributors. I just want to remember all users: please contribute patches, and help to make the "product" (is it really one?) better, easy to use, fast and working on all platforms. Especially we need support/tests of the project on Win98/Me, where we have some serious startup problems. Currently we did not have the machine(s) to test for all Windows platforms .NET is running on (in particular Win98/Me).

There is some hype about LOTR on the net, here, there and also on SamG's blog. I would like to go with my wife, but we need a baby sitter over the time... For hardcore LOTR fans go listening this Gollum Rap (flash movie) [Boing Boing].