We are wait­ing for the upcom­ing update of blog­ging soft­ware, code name Crazy Horse. The Blog Rock­stars of the Web know what I am talk­ing about. The next release of Word­Press ver­sion 2.7 is going to have an inter­face over­haul. The top menu is gone, instead all menu actions will occur from the new side­bar, which is far better struc­tured then the cur­rent avail­able ver­sion. Need­less to say I am really look­ing for­ward to this release! But I am very curi­ous if most of the themes and plu­g­ins will work? I will not imme­di­ately install it, I have to verify if all my plu­g­ins and my theme will work.25-10-2008: Some really nice infor­ma­tion for the­me­cre­ators or people who made their own theme can be found here at justin​tad​lock.com and here at ottode​struct.com

As I men­tioned in an ear­lier post, I would be offer­ing a mobile ver­sion of this weblog. It’s been run­ning in beta form for a while now and I think it’s ready to be unleashed into dig­i­tal cyber­space. You can approach this opti­mized ver­sion with you iPod Touch or iPhone by enter­ing this URL in your browser: http://​mobile.​dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net and if you have the latest firmware 1.1.3 (4A93) and the Jan­u­ary upgrade for the iPod Touch, you’ll see the magic of Web Clip. So dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous | mobile is ready-​to-​go.

OpenID is an open and decen­tral­ized iden­tity system, designed not to crum­ble if one com­pany turns evil or goes out of busi­ness. We love open stan­dards here and your pri­vacy is very impor­tant to us. As of today dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous will sup­port OpenID.

I am very hard at work port­ing my old blog to Word­Press. I have to port my theme over, I have a mobile ver­sion, from which I can post from my mobile phone on loca­tion. There’s a lot to be done and to little time to do it. But from a tech­ni­cal point of view it will be a whole lot sim­pler because I don’t have to main­tain my own code­base any­more. But that’s also the catch, I was not very famil­iar with the Word­Press API’s so I had to do to many things at the same time. So I decided to do the back-​end first, then the fea­tures and after that the front-​end. So there you have the reason why I’m late with my posts. I will do my posts from now on “dual-mode” (old way and Word­Press style).

I am cur­rently inves­ti­gat­ing mobile offer­ings of my weblog. So mobile.​dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net is on its way. This will enable me to post from any loca­tion and let users post com­ments from any loca­tion. Moblog­ging is in its infancy phase, but I think the mobile device as we know it will change dra­mat­i­cally, offer­ing users far more flex­i­bil­ity and usabil­ity in the future.

We’re back! Back as in per­ma­nent! So what hap­pened? I got a warn­ing from Apple’s .Mac team, my data trans­fer quota for this period was almost exceeded! What the ….? My whole blog is a mere 75MB. With Google ana­lyt­ics I noticed high traf­fic to two of my arti­cles Spider-​Man and Baby Seals. Either some­one was hot-​linking to my articles/images (band­width theft) or some­thing else was going on. I noticed that my data trans­fer dupli­cated every month. But 5,38 Gb in 16 days? That’s to much (or is it)?I planned to move my weblog to dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net this year and migrate to Word­Press while at it. Last week a host­ing party, which I have my eyes on a few months came with an offer I couldn’t refuse 110GB disk space, 5TB band­width and 110 Domain Point­ers. Did you hear me 5TB of band­width!? At .Mac I have 10GB!!! Site 5 is awe­some host­ing party with the latest tech­nol­ogy lan­guages at your feet. This will offer me more flex­i­bil­ity then .Mac can ever offer me. Okay, here come the fun part… the price! I could buy 19 .Mac accounts for this value. May be if .Mac doesn’t evolve more grad­u­ally I’ll dump the whole package.I would like to thank you for your patience and hope to see you again soon? There we be coming a lot of improve­ments now that we have the abil­ity to go beyond .Mac. For the latest news you can down­load the latest beta of our Dash­board Widget.

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