Build bridges instead of Walls

24 07 2004

Yesterday the Mostar Bridge has been reopened in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
BBC News:

The 16th-Century bridge was blown up during the bitter fighting in the Bosnian war between
the city’s Muslims and Croats in 1993. Its reopening is being seen as symbolic of the healing
of divisions between Muslims and Croats.

Ine Dehandschutter rightly states:
A symbolic act, ‘crossing bridges’. Something different than ‘building walls’.



Back on Domino

23 07 2004

Today I recieved the wonderful news that Domino Developer Network (”DDN”) is reintroducing FREE Domino web hosting:

Domino Developer Network was started with the intention of making Domino hosting accessible and affordable to individual developers and small companies who generally didn’t have easy access to Domino outside of a traditional corporate environment.

Over the years, as our client base grew, so did things such as our infrastructure needs and support requirements. Over time, we had to charge for our services in order to offset the increased costs we incurred. We now host over 800 customers in 52 countries and more than 3,000 websites! Although we’ve been able to stay extremely competitive and offer a wide variety of services and features to our customers, we always regretted not being able to support free accounts as a public service to the Domino community. As a result, we’ve designed a light-weight hosting plan that we will again be able to offer free of charge! The FREE plan offers only a subset of the features available with our fee-based plans, but we feel you will still find the free service of great value.

Sign up for your FREE account now at http://dominodeveloper.net/free.

I will soon try to put my old “Notes.BE” site back online again. :-)



Running RSS Bandit on linux?

16 07 2004

I am seriously thinking about throwing windows out of the window and moving back to linux for my home desktop.
The programs I use the most, like Eclipse, Firefox or Thunderbird, all run perfect on linux.
But there is one thing that is keeping me from switching right now: I am pretty hooked up to RSS Bandit, the C# based rss aggregator. One very nice feature is for example the possiblity to remotely storing the read state of the feeds.

Now the problem is that this application needs the .NET framework to run. I know there is a linux alternative for the .NET framework called Mono, but I don’t have any experience with that.

Maybe this is a silly question, but would it be possible to make RSS Bandit run on linux using Mono?
Or is there a good alternative for RSS Bandit on linux?



Gmail is too creepy

14 07 2004

www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com