Spent most of my time on updates. First reorganized my blog. Categorized most posts. Browsing them I got an overview of (part of) the things I've been doing lately. Interesting, maybe I should start using the blog for more matters. Marking posts as invisible to prevent blog-readers getting to bored. Which makes me wonder : how long will the blogs entries remain on the dnj-server ?
The articles part of a .text blog doesn't work. So I reorganized the toc of all my .net articles. Some entries point to the dnj-site and others pont to my own site. The article on passing XML in and out of webservices, which had a very short carrer as a weblog article, is there now to. In case you're interested, the full index is here.
Also updated Office to the new 2003 version. Got it on MSDN downloads. All downloads there are ISO images, including the small ones like the Office tools for VS.NET. Instead of burning a CD out of every image I tried some tools which give you access to the content of an ISO file. MagicISO has a browser, doubleclicking an ISO file opens a browser on that file if it was a CD. You can open and run files on that CD. Very easy, until it met the Frontpage setup. The latter considered the package corrupted. Next came Original CD emulator II by ztekware. Setting up this program requires a reboot but after that you have a virtual CD drive. Just dropping the frontpage iso in there started the FrontPage setup. Like a charm. The downside of “Original CD emulator“ is that the UI is a little weird. I have a double monitor where the second monitor is placed left of the main monitor. You don't want to know where the contents of a listbox popped up. It took me quite some time finding it.
I had hoped to strech the life my cellular phone long enough to switch to a smartphone but last week it gave up. Now I have a Siemens “Java” phone with animated icons. A little ugly but the included email client works very good. In the Netherlands we also have something called I-mode. A way to WAP and it does provide email as well. On some phones, like mine, this email client is a web-based client. Which has a horrible UI and generates far to much data traffic. So if you have the choice I would recomend the built in email client. In case you're interested I can dive into that in more detail in another post.
blog on,
Peter