Ich war mit Bille zur diesjährigen Aufführung der "West Side Story". Sind mit dem Schiff von Lindau aus direkt zur Seebühne gefahren, ideal! Kompfortabel, bequem, Begrüssungs-Sekt, wenig zu laufen... Und es war gigantisch! Nicht umsonst sind fast alle Karten für dieses Jahr schon ausverkauft...

Gestern war jemand auf unserem Bog zugange [Hacked By L a d e s 2 6 8]. Wusste gar nicht, das so ein privat-Blog irgendein Interesse findet ausser bei unseren näheren Verwandten und Bekannten... Na gut, ich lass mich gern eines besseren belehren. Alle Posts sind wieder da, und weiter gehts... Aber eventuell kann Adrian Frost ein paar Erweiterungen in BlogWorks unterbringen, die das Ganze etwas sicherer machen?

Why in the hell they do so [Hacked By Lades268]? This is not a poilitical blog, and I'm not fanatic on securing my blog. But anyway, other fight agains Spam in their comments, I fight against Spam within my blog :-( May be Adrian Frost can provide some hints to make the blog engine more secure?

Mused about the story Mark Pilgrim wrote about how he reinstalled Windows XP and to get it work like a Unix system. With an image software (e.g. Symantec Ghost we use at the company) he could reduce the 147 steps needed to just these (assume he had done the 147 steps some time ago to create an image :

1. Cleanup/format the system drive,
2. Boot the image software,
3. Install the image.

BTW: a dual boot system does not make sense for Windows/Unix only, also Windows/Windows is a good combination (one is a clean and lean install to boot safely, if you would examine the "normal" one for viruses, damage or driver problems).

Don Park provides this picture: [Cool Mummy] Q: does this woman live?

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.