A new one on the horizon: dasBlog. It's free, it's .NET based and seems to be the first official code branch of BlogX, that is still the most active GDN workspace with currently 297 members, followed by RSS Bandit (Aggregator), with 180 members.

As I have posted about good old VB6, my search on Google does not succeeds. But if you search MSDN, you may find classes like SessionEndingEventHandler, located in the Microsoft.Win32 namespace. So there IS a .NET way to apply the task.

The UMTSWorld: "...UMTS will be the commercial convergence of fixed line telephony, mobile, Internet and computer technology." I think, they are wrong. At least for Internet and computer tech. Why? It is to expensive (remember the licenses price), it starts only this autumn this year in Germany. It is available in Austria, but only with a few hundred users. There is a next generation technology available today: i-BURST with 1Mbps per user data rate today, not only 384Kbps as UMTS now. I like their vision of the "always on" network: will be like radio listening: switch the box on and you are inside. When it will be available in europe? May be, Don Park has it already :)

ScottW points here to an article of Jeff Julian. But this is only the first step. One step further you ends up at bloglines.

Update: Thanks Jeff - I refreshed the link targets!

Just found this at Don's blog and Adrian: you are right. Don's theory isn't new: read a book written by Allan and Barbara Pease a few weeks ago named: "Why Men Don't Listen: And Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It" at amazon.com (the german one is "Warum Männer lügen und Frauen immer Schuhe kaufen", at amazon.de). There are many answers to such questions and you can certainly get a better understanding of both your own behavior and the mysterious behavior of the opposite sex. Just read it with an open mind and have fun - don't take it too seriously, but it's amusing! If Don would read the book (may be it is just done?) he will find it's refrigerator problem explained

Found on Don Park's: Funky Defined. The first time Don Box post valid and funky is good, I feel bad about my feed wasn't funky. But now I'm happy to be not funky according to Dave. Good RSS, easy to aggregate. Currently no reason to replace it. But following the discussions about Echo, e.g. here, most of the people think of Echo as an RSS (2.0) replacement, that's still the wrong point of view. The idea behind it was to propose a standard to post items and comments to blogs. If you are a w.bloggar user (like me) you may have seen the setup screen with a huge list of different blogger backend API's. That's the point: the whole list should be replaced by one item: Echo. All the things like BlogThis, IBlogExtension, CommentAPI etc. including RSS itself, but not only can be expressed by Echo. Isn't that nice? That is the point, point.

no more time to say more :-(

Very busy: we have a release day this week. Last weekend we 've worked very hard to get some important parts done (was a request by a big player aka customer).

Very busy this week (and also next weekend) continued to wednesday next week. My reminder:

• Amazon feeds: http://www.lockergnome.com/amazon/,
• BBC News feeds: http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/24#a302,
• Rotor presentation downloads: http://research.microsoft.com/programs/europe/rotor/workshop.aspx#Download%20Presentation.

Yeah! Figured out how to get informed about the windows system shutdown/user logged off in .NET. With the knowledge of my VB6 days (there we get the info as a parameter in the window close event) my research goes completely to the wrong direction and a search via google does not point to a similar solution for .NET.

The may be simplest code to use is this:

public class Form1: System.Windows.Forms.Form {
  // Constant value was found in the "winuser.h" header file.
  private const int WM_ENDSESSION = 0x0016;
  ...
  protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) {
    switch (m.Msg) {
        case WM_ENDSESSION:
          // Save settings, state whatever here...           MessageBox.Show("WM_ENDSESSION received.");           Application.Exit(); // exit the normal way           break; // never reached
    }
    base.WndProc(ref m);
  }
  ...
}

I'm back from my holidays. It was a beautiful time in Italy/Venedig, but everything has once an end. Now I go on reading what happens while I'm offline:

• BlogWorks 1.2 will include new nice features, awaiting the end of the beta phase.
• RSS Bandit release 1.1.0.16 is available.
• GDN Workspaces will move to a improved version: my personal highlight is the new VS.NET Addin for the GDN source control.
• Comment API was changed.
• Pottermania leads to a Pottermeter on Amazon ).