Nette Butterbrotdose
Now comes the annoying setup and loading of all the data again. But I've already done the most important part. A few perversions are still outstanding (connecting my old Ergo-PS2-keyboard to the Mac via adapter and plugging in the ancient Logitech Trackman) and of course installing all those many little helpers that I have gotten used to in the last time (but I will probably use the opportunity again to take an axe to the selection).
Unfortunately, I couldn't afford an Apple display and now have a very bright BenQ that also shamelessly ignores the brightness control.
The first ladybug of the year. There are a few more pictures in my new photoblog (not active since 2007). By the way, it also works with WordPress, but with a few self-knitted plugins for photo management and the strip calendar (I'll put that together someday and make it downloadable). I'm already quite satisfied with the state over there. In the long run, I will probably create a mechanism that allows the photos to wander into this site here as thumbnails and then post pictures here rather rarely (at most the usual snapshots).
Why did I build something myself at all? Well, I find a number of features of Flickr quite nice, but I have a massive aversion to entrusting my content to foreign servers where I have no say in the operation or software design. Therefore, I have stolen some of the ideas from Flickr and also helped myself generously from other projects (for example, I copied the idea for the strip calendar from PixelPost) and integrated everything into WordPress. The layout was once Kubrick, but I hope it has become sufficiently different from it even for Kubrick allergics.
I had also looked at a whole range of content management systems beforehand to see how suitable they would be for something like this (you could read about the fallout from this partly here). And even toyed with the idea of doing the whole thing directly with PixelPost for a while. But the clearly superior comment features in WordPress (especially all the anti-spam techniques) eventually led me to stay with WordPress.
A few things are still on the to-do list, but in principle it is already quite usable and is therefore officially announced herewith.
Microsoft on patent raid - and they simply steal ideas from the IETF Working Group on IPv6, which they were once involved in. Also a patent that, under Clements' interpretation - and possibly even that of the BMJ - of the EU Patent Directive draft would also be enforceable here. And this could cause quite a few problems when using IPv6. Of course, due to prior art, one could challenge such a thing - but someone would first have to do that and be able to afford it.