Yes: now it is back - my old layout from the brinkster days is transformed to a dasBlog theme named 'segertGreen' (a modified web design based on a free version published by segert.net). It rumors (by mail) there may be a dasBlog theme contest the next time, so here are my two cent.

Nachdem brinkster von uns ja nix mehr wissen wollte, geht es jetzt also unter WH4L weiter im Text. Innerhalb von dasBlog musste ich dazu nur eine neue Kategorie "Personal" und in den Theme-Verzeichnissen ein entsprechendes Unterverzeichnis "Personal" mit den .templates Dateien anlegen. Die Haupt-Domain www.rendelmann.info wird einfach auf http://www.rendelmann.info/blog/CategoryView.aspx?category=Personal (German) umgeleitet und schon ist wieder (fast) alles beim alten...

A few days ago I googled around for trust centers offering personal e-mail certificates. Giving up after searching a half hour, because all of them (VeriSign, trustcenter.de, ...) require a fee.

Today I found my account information coincidental in my registration documents with Thawte: I already was in the possession of certificates! However these were already run off and only for no longer valid email addresses. So I renewed my certs and I'm really able to send signed mails: Outlook 2003 handles all that nicely while the older versions had some problems there. And best of the story: nothing to pay for! Now I only need some notaries to get my identity trusted.

Dunno if anyone else ever noticed that small resizable dialog form issue of the "Replace" dialog within Visual Studio 7.1 (.NET):

At least the form widgets does not resize as the form resize. But please keep it resizable if it gets fixed! Or is it already done...?

PS: the missnig picture is now there.

Yesterday the "fool jump" took place here in Weissensberg. Below are some impressions.

   

PS: and not to forgot - happy birthday to Phil...

Movies.com offers now some interesting RSS feeds at http://movies.go.com/moviesdynamic/rss:

A choice of six different feeds based on users’ interests are currently available, including:

• In Theaters – New movie releases, theater listings, synopses, ratings, and more.
• Upcoming – Up to date information on what's coming to theaters soon.
• Reviews – Movie reviews and the average critical score of the movies that have just opened in theaters.
• Buzz/News -- The latest news and buzz on what's going on in the world of movies.
• New on DVD – Information on new video and DVD releases.
• Box Office – Data on what movies topped the charts at the box office each weekend. 

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Small issue I detected yesterday in the current .NET 1.1 compiler. Try to compile the following code:

        public string MyProperty {
            get { return null; }
            set { ; }
        }

It results in messages like this:

D:\Visual Studio Projects\test\ThreadedListView\ThreadedListView.cs: 
Internal Compiler Error: stage 'BEGIN' 
D:\Visual Studio Projects\test\ThreadedListView\ThreadedListView.cs(1): 
Internal Compiler Error: stage 'BEGIN' symbol '' 
D:\Visual Studio Projects\test\ThreadedListView\ThreadedListView.cs(11): 
Internal Compiler Error: stage 'BEGIN' symbol 'ThreadedListView'
Internal Compiler Error (0xc0000005 at address 53630902): 
likely culprit is 'BEGIN'. An internal error has occurred in the compiler. 
To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the 
locations listed below. Locations at the top of the list are closer to the point at 
which the internal error occurred.

I just removed the semicolon in the set, and it compiles fine. Today I wanted to repro that: but now no problems occured... So sorry, I cannot post a bug to MS for it.

Today I mentioned a post at ApfelWiki (german) and decided to test it with RSS Bandit's Remote Storage feature (used to sync. your feedlist/flagged items/search folders with other machines running RSS Bandit). It just works and also supports https: to keep your password a secret. Here is how to setup if you already a member/user of the free services at GMX:

1. Open Tools-Options dialog
2. Select the "Remote Storage" tab
3. Check the "Use remote storage" checkbox
4. Select "WebDAV" from the Protocol dropdown
5. Type https://mediacenter.gmx.net/ within the WebDAV folder url input box (important: it is gmx.net, not gmx.de!)
6. Provide your user name and password you use to login at gmx: e.g. <your account>@gmx.de
7. Press OK

[thanks to schockwellenreiter.de]

This night at around 3:00 AM we had a modarate earthquake: 5,4 Richter magnitudes. But it felt heavier as we woke up at night. Best of all: no damages or personal injuries, we got off all the fright.

Double check your mails you get from xyz.com comercial domains! They may have viruses attached with exactly the name of the domain xyz.com
[Clever Virus Attack]

Yeah, Dare Obasanjo already posted about: but just in the moment the sourceforge feed reports 111666 downloads of RSS Bandit in "most recent daily statistics (30 Oct 2004) post...

Today I posted a comment to a blog that have a wfw:comment enabled feed. Just wondering why the post does not display in my favorite news reader, I visited the site directly and does the post again with the following return message:

Moderation

Comments on this blog are currently being moderated. An email has been sent to the owner with the details of your comment.

Click here to return to the original post or article

Did not know, http://weblogs.asp.net supports moderated comments. There are some ideas about a comment preview discussed here, but how about moderation? Shouldn't the comment API return an info about like that of the web comment? Worst case: the user post again, and again, and again... just wondering why the post does not show up in the aggregator producing a lot filtering work to the blog author.

Any ideas how it could be reflected into the comment API?

PS: hopefully the wfw:comment was also e-mailed...

Today I had time to visit my free brinkster.com account and have a look what's wrong again with my feeds there - this was the message it ends up:

I investigated further: the last message I received from brinkster was of Oct. 6th, 2004: "Brinkster *MUST READ* System Notice Re: Your web hosting account". Couldn't they not simply sent a warning mail about that f***ing account disabling feature? Badly they do not simply disable an account, they also delete all my files there! I can remember the pain I had to upload them all each file one by one through that f***ing web interface, all my galleries are away, the old private blog posts are somewhere on my home machine also (nice to have at least that)...