Found via Daypop Top 40: the Gender Genie. After applying some tests with blogs I read it seems to be use the Random() function. What a joke

RSS Bandit now have it's own domains:

1. http://rssbandit.org, http://www.rssbandit.org directs to our wiki
2. http://forum.rssbandit.org directs to the public web-forum
3. http://dev.rssbandit.org, http://gui.dev.rssbandit.org re-directs to this GDN workspace
4. http://comp.dev.rssbandit.org re-directs to the GDN RssComponents workspace.

BTW: the next public release will be available at the end of the week, followed by/accompanied of a MSDN article published by Dare Obasanjo.

I just lost a few weeks worth of changes to RSS Bandit because I overwrote one of my files with one I got from Torsten without realizing Torsten had modified an old version of the file. If I was still using Emacs all I'd have to do is grab the RssHandler.cs~ file and I'd be back in business. [Dare Obasanjo Obasanjo: Why I Shouldn't Have Stopped Using Emacs]

Ok, next time I will send you diff script you can apply with patch

We are visiting my parents this weekend for a big event: my dad's 60. birthday. It's nice to meet all my relatives I have ever not seen for years. 750 km each tour, to fly is too complicated and expensive. Thanks of the air-conditioning in our car the current weather does not matter too much.

Clemens Vasters: I think they exist. [Aggregation by category]

Agree, here is a suggestion for another category domain -- the common NNTP groups should also work well: The item-level then looks like this:

 dotnet.framework.interop
 alt.religions

But it is still only a suggestion to an aggregator, how to group items. Don has some related nice ideas about Filters in News Aggregators.

Next BlogWorks release 1.1.2 is available. As Adrian wrote, it addresses a important security bug (hopefully mine), but category support is only in the v1.3.0 preview :-(

I should change/split my working time: from 4:00 to 10:00 AM, and from 4:00 PM to..., it's so (too) hot for a european like me! 30 degrees Celsius (86 F) in the evening at 10:00 PM, glaciers smelt, is still normal now?

In den nächsten Tagen wird es hier ein paar Umbaumassnahmen geben: werde den nächsten Release von BlogWorks installieren. Das sollte dann auch die Sicherheitslücke dicht machen, hoffentlich. Ist das eigentlich überall so heiss? Abends um 22:00 Uhr noch 30 Grad, kaum auszuhalten. Torsten, Conny mit Kids sind grade auf Besuch und wollten sicher auch mal was anderes unternehmen als jeden Tag baden zu gehen. Aber bei dem Wetter bleibt einem wohl nix anderes übrig...

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 :)