Div: December 2003 Archives

Christmas is already finished, but I still would like to wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.

Even though we live far away from my family, we were able to spend Christmas with both families. On Christmas Eve we had a wonderful traditional Catalan family supper over here, and the day after we jumped in the airplane to celebrate a Dutch Christmas (I am not going to compare the two ways of celebrating; they do not differ that much and I like them both).

Anyway, as usual my time in Holland was way too short. I would have liked to spend more time with my family and friends and maybe visited some nice places together, but that will have to wait for my next visit. We have planned to go again with Easter, but maybe I will book another flight earlier.

• Big Medium I still have to try how to make templates, but this looks like the most usable CMS for club sites;
• Plone Watch out! Steep learning curve;
• CMS Directory Overview of Free Systems;
• Coranto The new NewsPro;
• Drupal Community plumbing;
• Open Source CMS Try it before you install;
• mezzoblue, Wanted: CMS Guess I'm not the only one searching for this;
• eZ Publish They mention the use of their product as webshop, corporate website, news site, intranet, extranet, forum, picture gallery, personal site andweblog;
• Mamboserver People say the next release will be able to create valid XHTML.

[Update 2004.01.12]: Added some more links

It has been really quiet on this site; I just did not have the time to write.
I could have written about how we put a christmas tree in our house, and why we have a real tree and don't want plastic.
I could have written about the fire my company had which destroyed the warehouse and covered the rest of the building with a black blanket. Now we have placed our support department in a small cabin in the garden.
I could have pointed you to some nice sites about web design or tell you some jokes.
I could have told you tha BlogShares is up again.

Anyway, I hope I will have more time to write now.

Eight months ago I discovered BlogShares, a fantasy blog shares market. During these months I have spend my bored moments trying to convert my initial $500 into a fortune by trading virtual stocks. As far as I now, my account passed $90.000.000 this week, so I was really close to the 'magical' 100 million limit.

But I won't reach that limit, since BlogShares is closed. Seyed, the creator and administrator of this game cannot support it anymore; the database crashed and won't be restored anymore.

Game over.