This is the page 106 of 113 of the blog archive. On this page you have articles from 27 Mar 2004 to 11 Feb 2004.

Rides Through Ghost Town

"Motorcycling is a great hobby of mine. I ride all my life and I owned different bikes and I ended with big kawasaki ninja. This motorbike has matured 147 horse powers, some serious bark, it is that fast like a bullet and comfortable for a long trips. I travel a lot and my favorite destination lead through so called Chernobyl...

Finland's Regulations on Freedom of Speech on Web

The law defines web publication as a periodic publication created from materials collected by the publisher. This definition would make the law apply to blogs, mailing lists, discussion forums and news sites, but not necessarily to regular organizatorial websites. The "Application of Freedom of Speech in Mass Media" law can apply even to personal blogs, but is slightly eased for...

RSS as Business Notification Tool

"...automated business systems are being retrofitted to generate data in RSS format. For example, Triple Point uses StarTeam for source control and release management... In the past, developers were required to produce email announcements of each source code change; now that process has been automated via RSS."

Marc Andreessen: Why Open Source Will Boom

"The Internet is powered by open source." "The Internet is the carrier for open source." "The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed." "It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software." "Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments." "Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers." "Open source means standing on the shoulders...

Dashboard: Managing contact relationship

Integrating Dashboard support to Nemein.Net might be interesting. NN already stores information related to persons in several places, including:Contacts databaseSales projectsSupport requestsProject contactsIn addition to those, we will probably have to start connecting Calendar entries to persons from the Contacts database. The Calendar API already supports connecting any person records to the entry, but there is no user interface to...

Leaks and neighbors

Apparently the pipes in the apartment had failed and started leaking.So now I'm stuck with no shower for at least a week, except for the nearby sauna place.Joys of living in an old house...

TMV switches to MidCOM

The new website is powered by MidCOM 1.2.0 and midcom-template.Most of the site is static content but they are already utilizing some of the nice dynamic features, including an automatic RSS 2.0 feed of their news items.

New features in Nemein.Net Sales

These include:Sending notification when any company belonging to a group is changed. Configured by setting parameter to the group:NemeinNet,sendNoticeOnChange,emailNotes field for companiesExtranet user account editing for personsSending email to campaignsThese changes can be found from the latest nightly.
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Swazi Sauna

On thursday morning I started calling different motorcycle rental places to find a bike. Most of the rentals were out of bikes but finally I was able to find a reasonably priced BMW F650GS from Sama Tours in Hatfield, Pretoria (Darryl Berman, Tel +27825516132, Web www.samatours.co.za). Unfortunately the bike's battery needed to be changed so I could start my trip...
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Leave Matebeng Pass for Goats

As my mobile phone had been offline during the hike, I had received a quite constant stream of text messages during the night. Again, the internationality of the whole trip amazed me. Our group included two Finns, one American, one South African and one Argentinian, and we were chatting in mixed German and English with two older couples from Hamburg....