cacert.org provides server and e-mail certificates on an (almost) free basis "due to the growing popularity of using this method for authentication, and a growing concern about existing certificate authoritites (ca) starting to charge excessively, and increasing on a yearly basis, as well as extremely serious breaches of security in the past".

from the i-did-not-know dept.: mysql driver for rebol/core. just 21kb!

april, april!

rick jelliffe asks (and answers): "the new european currency, the euro, has a symbol € in unicode 3.2 as character u+20ac. how can we use it with xml?"

the javascript rss box viewer has moved to a new location: forever.p3k.org – please update your bookmarks and, even more important, the url of any embedded javascript rss box asap.

the old server, piefke.helma.at, will be shut down in the very near future. (which is quite close to the present :)

besides an incredible amount of variations of sweets one finds strawberries, pears, apples, melons and a bunch of other fruits all made of marzipan at the wonderfully quaint lebensmittelhandel seba, bognergasse 5, vienna.

i will buy marzipan carrots there the next time i make the legendary swiss rübli cake for my loved one.

"'today's front pages' is an online version of one of the newseum's most popular exhibits. every morning, more than 100 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the newseum via the internet. [...] all of the front pages received that morning are then posted on the newseum's web site. the full selection of each day's front pages is available on the web site by 9:30 a.m. daily". via langreiter.

ahoy, kappe.p3k.org!

"the oscar for best male supporting actor goes to... CHARLTON HESTON in 'bowling for columbine'!"

btw. david t. hardy (whoever that is) thinks that michael moore's movie "is not a documentary, by the academy's own definition" (found via adam curry's weblog).

c'mon mike, you got caught.

if there will be more messages out there in the next days denoting that yet another weblog has moved away from antville because the publicly funded server is total crap (at least its memory boards) and thus antville.org is not accessible as it was never before the project antville ("an easy to maintain and use weblog system") is in danger if not seriously damaged already.

that is, almost two years of hard work, extremely hard work for some of the developers, are torpedoed by sabotage-like unprofessionalism, lackadaisical mismanagement and irresponsible recklessness. well, and probably by my own slackness, too.

let's-form-an-association my ass!

i'd like to stop this antville-going-down-the-shit-shoot. right now it's not the time for a move by me, though. but drastic consequences would be fine with me, if necessary. or at least consequences at all. because i am really P-I-S-S-E-D.

yeah, yeah... calm down a bit.