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Martin Roell has [finally ;-)] managed to get his JobBlog online.

It's a blog about unemployed people he knows, and whom he trusts to be a good-working or professional one.

Personally, I think this is a very eager attempt to get his "blogosphere-fame" focussed and applied to helping people. If they are recommended by a known E-Business blogger, they can't be that bad at all, can they?

Of course, what is necessary for this ambitious attempt, is a well-selected sense of quality for the persons he suggests. I think this can only end up good, because I don't see a thing which is bad about all of this. It could be disregarded completely by the persons in higher positions, but then it doesn't do bad at all.

One drawback (as I see it) is, that you can put yourself into the blog without Martin knowing you: By paying for your 'advertisement'. That somehow spoils the whole intention of it, but I'll see as to how the relation from personal <-> commercial turns out, before I really complain about it.

But keep this one in mind. And even though this is a commercial-like use of a blog, it uses the social structure of the blogosphere in a social way. I'm curious about what others will say about the project. And I hope to get updated on the site if it works, after all. Good luck to all of you involved into the JobBlog.

I just got this link of our phpMyAdmin-Dev Mailinglist: Vote in O'Reilly's "Open Source Goes to COMDEX" Contest

You can there see [once you've become a 'free member' of their site, of course ;-)] a list of a couple of Open Source Applications and vote for any three projects. Voting means there, that the top 6 applications listed will get a chance to be represented at the COMDEX.

More exactly: "The winning projects will be recognized by COMDEX and we'll invite a leader from the project to come to COMDEX and run demos on the show floor. This will give Open Source projects an opportunity to go where only commercial software vendors have gone before."

Well, I surely think that not most of the OS-Developers want to go, where only commercial software vendors have gone before - if they wanted to, they'd surely not be developing OS. Anyways, I think it's nice to be worshipped at the COMDEX, so I voted for a couple of applications:

• phpMyAdmin (Obviously, huh?)


• TightVNC


• SquirrelMail (which is one of the most commonly used applications for me, besides Mozilla, Trillian and Sharpreader)

So, go ahead and make your own vote. At least include phpMyAdmin!

Just read on the heise ticker, that Microsoft got a patent to store a session ID in a cookie and the SID-related data on the server.

So this is like one of the most basic features of any personalized webpage, or even the most basic setup of PHP sessions. Even though I doubht that Microsoft will use that for patent sueing, a patent like this should not be able to get.

Every judge should easily see, that their way is common practice and can't really be done in another way. This is exactly, why IT-Patents should not be given in Europe, just as they are (currently still?) discussed in Europe.

There's no bright future ahead for E-Development and Free Software, if that gets common practice.

I should think about getting a patent for sending electronical representations of characters through different servers.

Look what I found here; a new bot on my site:

The Nameprotect.com crawler. According to the info it "engages in crawling activity in search of a wide range of brand and other intellectual property violations that may be of interest to our clients". That's really great, so now I will be more easily confronted with copyright infrigement issues when using the keyword 'Batman' too often, or something similar.

I guess this is the first Bot I will close out of my site. Welcome to my killfile!

The s9y (Serendipity) PHP-based Weblog has been released in its first actual version just this weekend.

The version is 0.3, and any version prior was withdrawn because of some more or less serious bug. Since then many features and fixes (~ 140) have been made, and I actually contributed some minor and major things to the system as well.

Serendipity is one of the most full-grown PHP-based weblogs around and is being used by quite a lot of the PHP-developers around the world. Check out the "Who is using s9y" section of our WiKi to see some examples.

s9y is quite easy to install and begin with, so if you're planning on creating your own blog it's worth giving a try. It's main advantage to MoveableType is that it's based and PHP and can be easily implemented to (W|L)AMP setups. This was my initial reason why I went with s9y instead of MT and have never regretted this step.

Enough of my mumbling: Go. Try. It. Out. Word.

Did you ever have a problem concerning those tiny little favicon.ico files? Ever wanted to easily implement that icon on the corner of your browser display correctly?

Well, look no further. Your solution is there! Just visit this great german site: Webseiten-Suchhelfe.de: Favoriten-Icon.

In a really gentle and behaving mannor the author describes us why he is able to take the heavy-duty work of finding out the technique behind favicons aways from the load of our shoulders. As all of us webdesigners may be aware of, it could easily take you a week to find out all of the details of that tiny icon...not!

So enough kidding: The website is barely readable because of it's layout and way of composition. He carries out why the icons are so hard to implement on dozens of pages, in more than double the space one would need to tell how they actually work. Everything for a ridiculous price of 116 Euro.

I hope this is all just a Google Pagerank-joke and not an real offer.

(*shaking-my-head* via CSS-Technik News)