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Philips replaced my broken 170B TFT screen by a superior 170B4 TFT screen. It even features a mic and loudspeakers I didn’t have before :)

The replacement process wasn’t straightforward (first, they sent me a 170B TFT that had another defect ;). Nevertheless they were keen to offer good customer service (3 year on-site warranty is extra-ordinary. And they were quick too!). Will buy Philips again.

I’ve quickly made a couple of proposals for a uLink logo (login and pwd are the same as for the member section of the icu-web) with the help of my TabletPC. I won’t have the time to follow up that matter and create a professional logo (vector graphics, correct CMYK colors, correct proportions and measurements etc.), but I’ve put all my files under the creative commons attribution 2.0 license. Hence you can use them for whatever you want, including derivative work (e.g. a professional logo as mentioned above), as long as you give me some credit for the graphic(s) you used as a basis.

If you send me an e-mail message, please make sure it is in TEXT-ONLY format. All mail in HTML-ONLY format will be marked as SPAM and therefore remain unanswered (messages containing both HTML and TEXT should pass though). Likewise, ANY mail with more than 80% blank lines will be considered as being SPAM.

Thanks for your understanding.

blogspam is just way too annoying (mt users particularly suffer).. let’s see whether the “pareto solution” works for fighting blogspam. at least for a while, hopefully..

so, as a quick’n’dirty fix i’ve renamed mt’s comment script. please notify me if you experience any problems due to this (does posting comments using your aggregator still work? feel free to test it here)

btw. are there any other (i.e. really good and viable) solutions against blogspam?

see this earlier post. should be fixed now.

i had to close certain threads/postings (i.e. comments can’t be added anymore) due to repetitive blog spamming. i’m sorry for that, but at the moment, this nasty work-around is the only way to cope with blog spam.

i’ve been notified (thx ben) that my xml/rdf feed is bogus. i’ll check it. i haven’t noticed this yet as i don’t use any news aggregator so far.

Now I’ve entered the captions of my CeBIT 2004 gallery :)

Let me point out once again, that i’ve uploaded all of the pics i’ve taken (“as is”) – no matter how bad their quality may be. I’ve just muted and converted the short movie captures (which can be found at the end of the gallery). I hope you don’t mind about their “suboptimal” quality- it’s rather impossible to avoid camera shake if the cam is as small as mine.. Some pictures are very blurry too (I probably caught the wrong focus mode).. To my excuse, I’m neither a photographer nor a film director (yet ;).

I’ll add a link to Stephan‘s pics, as soon as he put them online. He’s also taken some pictures on behalf of me as my cam’s rechargeable battery ran out of power on the second day (probably due to me taking “too many” 30fps movies ;).

it’s amazing.. blogs are all around :> i think i just found the blogs of fabian [1] and dani (i’m not so sure whether this is his blog though) i’ve met today at the icu “stamm” . supposed i’m right [update 20040318: confirmed, thx], i’ll add them to my blogroll..

[1] ..and his interesting web site: iswitch.ch (thx to ben for hints ;)

i’ve just deleted three blogspam comments that were posted within a couple of hours. that’s the highest blogspam rate i’ve experienced so far. as mt-2.661 only features some minor anti-blogspam functionality, i have the slight hope that mt-3.0 will offer a better blogspam-protection, as promised.

else i’ll might want to install wordpress instead. wordpress offers almost the same features as mt but is less popular and therefore probably less attractive for spammers.

[update 20040322: today i’ve deleted another 8 blogspam comments which took me more time than deleting the five spam mails i’ve received (spamassassin trashed 49 of them)]

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