... starts this morning with the literature list of this article (german) within my favorite magazine I read last evening. My special interest was about the ThreadArcs used in the IBM prototype Remail described there. It is much more intuitive compared to similar research results found at MS Research. Scott Hanselman has also some comments about that here. As the result of reading the ThreadArcs research report I added this as a required feature for RSS Bandit to my internal list. Hopefully we get it done this year. One of the research paper references points to Jamie Zawinski. Visiting the homepage my first thought was: "Now they got me. It has opened my Command Promt window and exec. something like hex winnt.dll" But the second look opened my eyes. And my trip ends up with subscribing it's feed and feel with the man at the right of the first picture in the story: Hey kids, it's Exploding Whale Party Time! (Attention: bloody affair!)

AP - Britain will give an honorary knighthood to Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates in recognition of his contribution to enterprise in Britain, the government said Monday. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

But he cannot use the prefix 'Sir', see Arise Sir Bill....

I think ABBOTT should get fired... [WebLogs @ DotNetJunkies.com]

Now I found a working configuration for w.bloggar posting to dasBlog 1.5.xxx inclusive title and category (you have to correct Host and Page path):

And these are the (more important) custom settings:

The category dropdown also may have Categories metaWeblog API - single selected, take what you want (how do I select multiple categories in w.bloggar?).
BTW: what are Templates for (in relation to dasBlog)?

You currently cannot display the comments to my post [Wood mobbing]. Sorry about that. I filed the bug to dasBlog workspace. But how can I fix it? Cannot jump to the commentview.aspx because of the error to manually remove the "bad" comments causing the exception...

[Dilbert]

Test, if category [Humor] is now correct if I post with new w.bloggar version...

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].

I'm offline the next few days. Time to spent with my family...

Full story.

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

As a RSS Bandit user you know we are hosting a IE Control. So we have to consider all the security vulnerability related to Internet Explorer. Don Park pointed to Zap the Dingbat, that provides a exploit to test Url spoofing. We use our own Url toolbar, so my first idea was: we should be aware of this. But the used control is not under our control, so I really had to test it out. Here is the result:

You see: it displays the full address not cutted after the magic character... Doh!

If you read the MSDN docs about Process.StartInfo you would assume: nothing is wrong, excellent in controlling the startup of a new process. But how about this line of code:

if(Process.GetCurrentProcess().StartInfo.WindowStyle == ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized) {
  ... // do special things here
}

It will never evaluate to true! The reason is simple: the StartInfo is not populated with the settings of the current running process. So if the documentation states: "Gets or sets the properties to pass to the Start method of the Process" it does not mean: the current process. As long as we have to live with DOT.NET 1.1 the only workaround is to interop with the common API function GetStartupInfo() and corrsponding parameter structure to get the infos we want. But I really like the code above, the more intuitive and managed way. Any MS folks listening?

Thoemmi.NET posted here today, that he does not feel right. He is right. Outlook 2003 bars are not enough to get the right feeling: so I just added this feature today because it seems to be easy. And yes, it was and it's more powerful than OL2003..., currently only available via GDN source control (build 1.2.0.63 and higher). You can select the new style(s) from the "Feed Details" Tab context menu.

As I posted here, the new version with the modified UI is now available. The "Update All Feeds" button is back, but the visibility is configurable. The search feature will be further enhanced: currently we search over all items in title, link, subject and content. This will be optional next, also the search method (string compare, regex, or XPath). And not to forgot: searches are persistable in the near future...

Flags will be also enhanced. Stay tuned!