Category: Contemplation

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…

I am currently too busy to blog. One of the projects I amtrying to get going is the “Intrazopista” project. We’re fed up with the campus Intranet systems available. Most of them are not easily extensible or customizable. We are working with Zope and other Python-based approaches to implement this. There is a lot to…

A resource I hoped to find one day — and here it is.

Today a new toy has arrived for me (with some add-ons). I plan to use iSight and iChat AV to join students in the lab when I am away.

Looking at the list of attendees of BloggerCon that supposedly international conference appears to be a pretty national.