Category: Contemplation

I was hoping that with a custom comment system I would be immune to comment spamming. But unfortunalty that doesn’t seem to be the case. It is easy to clean up, but I think I will have to place a burden on that spam bots. Spam is the dirt of the Internet.

The “Future of computing” presentation at the Museum for Communication went well although only few people appeared (among them was Jochen Robes from weiterbildungsblog.de who happened to read about it here). Jochen suggested I should have advertised the event more on my weblog, but I assume this wouldn’t have made much of a difference. I…

I am currently busy to finish a presentation about the future of computing. I am going to present at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt on Thursday, 7 p.m. If you have heard of a interesting technology, a future vision or application concept – please consider adding this to the Wiki here. Update: Someone anonymously…

Here we go: after some vacation (sort of) I’m dropping back into a pool of work. Things come rushing in quickly so I’m not sure how blogging will increase as well.

My ISP moved his server farm from town to town today. During transfer the servers were not available. There also was an update in the domain name system – so even after the machines came back online after many hours, there are still problems with DNS pointing to the old IP number.

I started working on a list of Internet hypes. Do you remember any Internet hypes? Please add yours to the Wiki page.

I ask myself if native English speakers ever wonder that it costs non-native speakers quite some effort to run an english weblog. Peter Baumgartner just posted some thoughts about this. He would prefer to write in German only because most of his readers seem to be German speaking. I also run a german weblog that…

I have some GMail invitations left. Comment if you want to have one (by clicking on the date above).

Dave Winer suggests to solve the comment fraud problem by adding expiration dates to comments: Here’s a free idea I had the other day while cleaning up a spewage of comment spam. What if comments, by default, were deleted after 24 hours? What if the owner of the site had to check a box in…

So I managed to add a wiki space to this site. It will take some time to grow. You’re invited to add yourself to a list of guests or suggest topics.

Sometimes I accidentally surf to very strange pages that stick with me for a while. For instance here: The 2004 Veteran Manhatten Project & Symbosium which is an event organized by the “Children of the Manhatten Project“. Reading the agenda felt like going through a ghost party program: a bunch of old men (or children…

I heard on the news that asian movies were great in Cannes this year. But I am sure this title was not among the nominees.

I finally managed to add a rudimentary comment feature. It needs a lot more tweaking.

I apologize for an outage of this site. The Zope server crashed. Seems I need to run some kind of watchdog+restart script. Does anybody have a tip about this?

One really odd phenomenon on the Internet is announcement mailing lists that are unmoderated. Especially if the receivers of that announcements never have learned that mail list servers have extra e-mail addresses for unsubscribe commands. Here is a true story: An unnamed software vendor announced a new product release through his announcement mailing-list a number…

I have been playing around with Tinderbox to manage this site for quite some time now. I am bumping into a homemade problem from time to time: I am publishing to a ZOPE server — the pages are stored as Zope Page Templates. While this gives me a lot of options (that I do not…

I am currently thinking about if I should run my german weblog here too. I decided to be bilingual – and currently the german weblog is more a weblog for my teaching activities. I don’t want to mix it like Erik does.

The RSS feed is repaired. It’ll work on the old location, but it should be updated. It is now here feed://wrede.interfacedesign.org/xml/rss.xml (as http-Link). There’s still a template missing for the single items at ther permanent URL.

I just finished the first steps of redesigning this site in Tinderbox. There is a huge amount of things to look for. Many things need to be done in a particular way in Tinderbox. This does not necessarily mean it is harder than other tools – most of the time it is just different. Another…