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The X-Files Reruns

Did you know that with the technique of Chinese body control you can influence your testicles to withdraw into your body for protection? - I'm doing that right now! - Mulder in The X-Files. When the show was still good.

b2evolution: Home

b2evolution also makes a good impression on paper. It's surprising how far all these blog programs have come while you're not looking.

In any case, b2evolution makes a very good showing when it comes to antispam and security. And it also seems to have good XHTML support and a plugin architecture. The plugins are divided by purpose (Edit-Plugins and Toolbar-Plugins). I think the somewhat simpler form of plugins in WordPress will be easier for many to understand, but programmers will probably prefer b2evolution.

Personally, the admin environment is a bit too playful for me - though I only looked at it in the online demo. Also, the standard template doesn't look as clean and tidy as WordPress's - I think with the latter you have an easier start to impose your own layout. What's definitely nice is the choice of input parser for posts - I've done something like that in the Python Desktop Server too, precisely because you don't always want to have certain plugins active. Otherwise, it's of course very similar to WordPress - it's also a b2 descendant. WordPress probably has better support for images since it can automatically create thumbnails. Also, b2evolution lacks the metaWeblogAPI. On the other hand, what's nice is the integration of referrers and search engines directly into the blog - similar to the evaluation that the Python Community Server does for me. The usability design of b2evolution seems a bit confusing in places: permalinks to posts are small chain symbols, permalinks to comments are small document symbols. It's also somewhat inconsistent in other places.

Conclusion? If I can draw one at all from this mini-test, I'd say that for me, b2evolution implements just one small checkbox, switch, or option too many for most features. Therefore, I would personally lean more towards WordPress - I can imagine the code is somewhat simpler in structure and therefore custom hacks can be integrated more easily.

In terms of function, however, b2evolution clearly wins on points. Whoever prefers lots of features and likes to draw from a full well, or who wants to venture beyond normal blogs more strongly into the CMS area, will certainly be thrilled with b2evolution.

What I don't understand with either b2evolution or WordPress: neither of the two projects implements stories. That is, article formats that are not fixed to the calendar. Sure, you can realize that with a category or with a separate blog (with b2evolution's multiblogs functionality certainly much easier than the category hack needed for WordPress), but I find it impractical that you have to go to such lengths just for an imprint...

Here's the original article.

Computation Streaming in Python - Interesting alternative technique to threads - particularly interesting for Medusa

entrian.com - goto for Python - goto for Python - GOTO and COMEFROM for Python

EU approves sale of genetically modified corn

And so the will of the citizens is trampled underfoot. And for what? Why do we need genetically modified canned corn? Who - apart from the manufacturer - benefits from its existence? And how much did they pay the members of the EU Commission for it? Because I can't explain this nonsense any other way than through corruption. And we're already used to corruption from the EU Commission...

I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.

EU Commission releases flight passenger data for USA

And here we go again with the Commission's gross mischief...

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Exchange loses emails

Mail loss is not a standard feature of mail servers? You'd think someone would have to explain that to Microsoft – they won't figure it out on their own ...

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Open Source release of Frontier?

Interesting for people still working with Frontier: the kernel is likely to become open source. As a result, this could mean that some of the uglier problems (e.g. the terribly poor performance under OS X) could be solved. After all, Frontier is still pretty cool in many corners even today (the OO database with outliner basis, for example, is something that doesn't exist in this form elsewhere - even if some people grumble that you don't actually need this particular combination).

At Second p0st you'll find the original article.

PyOne - one-liner helper for Python - Helper tool for Python one-liners - great for admins and shell use

SourceForge: pyawk - AWK-like language based on Python

WordPress Wiki - Comment Moderation Plugin - Comment confirmation via email - could be interesting for TIMMY