Torsten Curdt’s weblog

Finally I got my blog up and running and now my provider is going out of business at the end of the month. *sigh* Any good recommendations? I need a .org domain with php and mysql. Reliable and not too expensive of course.

Today I had 53 message on my private web.de account and only 2 of them were not spam! I am becoming sooo pissed off that I consider using a whitelist. Unfortunately web.de doesn’t have this feature and I don’t wanna pay for their spam protection (has anyone tested that so far?)But whitelists are also problematic: how could someone who legally wants to send you an email and is not on your whitelist yet contact you to become listed!?What I could think of is that you have to qualify yourself first. You get an automatically generated email reply on the first contact. Inside is an url where you are supposed to answer some questions. Preferably defined by the email account holder you try to contact. If you can successfully answer e.g. at least 2 questions (preferable also adjustable by the account holder) you get listed on the whitelist directly or a whitelist request is passed on to the account holder. If the question form is also spider protected (using images e.g.) you could seriously reduce the amount of spam. This would work at least for my private inbox. Any freemail provider out there already providing such a system? …or would like to pay me for implementing such? ;-)

I’ve committed the STX block kindly prepared by Daniel. Can’t wait to see some numbers :-)

Today I had a meeting in Berlin. I was traveling by train and was finally able to finish the book “Stupid White Men” by Michael Moore. It’s definitely worth reading! Very cynical and also somewhat scary…Things that really make you trust your politicians (no matter what country) :-/

Currently I am locked into my little embedded prison programming C++ for WinCE and I have to say that I miss java soooo much. The lack of a decent IDE makes it even worse. Today I needed 3 hours to fix a multi-threading deadlock bug. *sigh* On the other hand all this GPS and GPRS stuff is very interesting to play with :-)