That is what came out when I did the test (oh, my goodness!):
You are .dll
You are dynamic.
You are constantly in danger of bringing down the house, because you don't play well with others.
If you want to take the same test yourself, here you go:
Which File Extension are You?
This is very old photo (1997). It actually is composed of TWO photos that have been first scanned and then photoshopped together to get the whole tram "rebuilt".
Still like it though.
Seems like the Rome council is setting up public wifi hotspots in parks!
I haven't personally tried if they actually even *work* but nonethless this is cool 
I even found official information about this:
www.comune.roma.it/was/repository/ContentManagement/infor…
What I was complaining about in this post is now solved and you can finally post to your MSN Spaces blog your flickr photos!
Dare explains here how to set it up.
[WARNING: This won't make you laugh if you are not italian. Nonethless I'll try to explain it in english, why it is funny for an italian]
I was searching for the "public registry" on MSN Search, the public registry being the office where houses are registrered, so you can search for their history, when they've build, who owns them, if there are pending mortages on them, and so on.
Of course the word I wrote "REGISTRO" is the correct Italian term for "registry". The only use of the word "registry" (in english) by an italian would be for one reason: he knows about IT, and Windows, and yes! he refers to the windows registry, the ocnfiguration database.
So it looked rather funny (but it makes sense, because I use english settings and not italian ones when using MSN Search ) to get this suggestion:
it sounds pretty much a kind of office that should exist in Microsoft somehwere… "office of the Registry"…
which could even be useful to someone, to have an "office of the registry"… sure that would hold the complete list of keys….
… sorry, just being silly today
Dare Obasanjo writes his proposition for this year that just began.
I don't personally know you, Dare, but I am a voracious reader of your blog, and I respect and estimate you a lot… so I thought I'll comment some of your thoughts here (hope you don't mind, and I hope the trackback works ). I'll do it because your writings often make me think, because I do have similar thoughts, because I feel like writing some more than a comment this time.
1) [...] learn a new programming language: [...]
Sure, why not ?
IronPython interests me too. Of course Python is widely used, a porting on .Net is interesting… but we need to see where it will end up in practice…
This kind of ports are always a bit whacky, IMHO… I read in the release notes: "[...] Most of the standard Python library is not currently implemented, so it is unlikely that many existing Python scripts will run successfully under this release of IronPython 1.0 Beta [...]"
Right, I mean… this cross platform ports of stuff is always deluding in one or another way…. to me, at least.
I was also excited about MONO so I could run my C# (and ASP.Net) stuff on Linux for example… and yeah what they have done IS impressive, as some stuff simply works out of the box (I've got the small standalone application I described on my other blog (the risky one) compiled on Windows, then copied it and I'm running that off my linux server, for example, without much trouble… ) but you always need to be very careful about what references you use in your projects as not everything is implemented and will actually work…
Also, setting up mod_mono on Apache has been a pain and even once it is set up it is nowhere as flexible as using Visual Studio with IIS6….
So this kind of cross-porting is definitely INTERESTING, often in an achademic sense, but we'll see what happens about real usage (and usability) of these solutions….
If you want something really different, though, I would suggest taking a look at Ruby / Rails. It might piss off some more people (see resolution #4), so be warned… 
2) [...]Write More Articles: [...]
[...] Looking back on various articles I've written it's clear that since joining MSN and getting a new girlfriend my output has reduced. I only wrote two articles last year compared to a minimum of five or six in previous years. [...]
Sure since I got in Microsoft I have the same. It's not Microsoft's fault, but I've got a couple of ideas about a number of reasons why this happens:
But I've noticed this behavious several times…)
). This issue is of course personal, but since I moved back to my own country I need to do a lot more out of work too to help out my wife while she learns the language…
Some of the above reasons (those related to your work at least) might explain why you decided to move your blog to a private domain from blogs.msdn.com
I have had a private blog (this one) way before even joining Microsoft. Then when I got in, I got the idea that a corporate one would be cool… but then with it comes a big responsibility as you are under a "flagship" site, really. Sure, everybody knows who you are anyway, but it is less… you get what I mean. In fact I feel better writing "at home" (but that would be better said in the "resolution number 4", below…).
Of course some other reasons might be the case for you, I don't know.
3) [...] Come Up With New Career Goals:[...]
[...]When I was in school, my dream was to become a well-known technology guru like Don Box or Scott Meyers then get paid consulting gigs to be the hero that comes in to fix peoples problems and tell them how to build their software. Since then, I've seen a lot of the people who I once idolized end up working in the b0rg cube. In conversations with Don Box, he's mentioned that the life isn't as glamorous as I assumed.[...]"
You know, he's probably right… 
"[...] It's going to be time for my mid-year review and discussion with my boss in a couple of weeks. I hope I have a clearer idea where I want to go by then [...]"
That is an issue, I never know what to say in those reviews anyway… I should work on that too…
4) [...] Piss of Less People with my Writing: [...]
[...]Whatever. I've already gotten two angry emails from different folks at work about stuff I've written online and it isn't even the first week of the year. Maybe next year. [...]
Welcome to the club
Oh well, look at the comments you received on your blog about it That should bring your morale up a bit….
That's happening to everybody, especially when you don't conform to just repeating their pre-made speeches and just use your mind and speak out your own ideas.
See the examples I mentioned about refraining from writing some stuff at point #2…
Or in general what does happen might be due to the company that you feel like being a Dinosaur (a question: did Office Marketing campaign influence you, per chance ?) ?
Leaving jokes aside now, though, for what I can see so far, Microsoft luckily is open enough and DOES let you say this stuff enough, doesn't it ?….
…sure, every time I post something like this on the web (or on a public mailing list, or lately even internally) I've got that thrill that says to me: "holy shit, I am going to get fired this time…". But then it has not happenened yet (maybe I haven't pissed them off ENOUGH yet ?).
Let's hope they don't really get worried by people's opinion but the look at a couple of more practical/humane things, like:
1) he's doing his job all right, customers ARE happy (in my case);
2) he's got a family to feed… 
Anyway, KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK !
Dare Obasanjo described on his blog a while ago how to configure some blog tools to use the MetaBlog API towards MSN Spaces.
Flickr says it supports the same API but I've not been able to post from Flickr to MSN Space….
Has anyone succeeded in doing this ? I did not even get any meaningful reply on Flickr Forum…
La Befana vien di notte
con le calze tutte rotte
con le toppe alla sottana
viva viva la Befana!
We have been spending the "Befana" holiday of the 6th of January in the area "pigneto" where the people of the cafeteria/bookshop "lo Yeti" were doing a nice initiative for kids and for the people of the area.
These puppets seem to be running home like I am doing when I am finished wih this post, for a nice long weekend.
Yep I know it is Thursday, but tomorrow, the 6th of January, is the Epiphany, the day the Kings came to visit Baby Jesus… and in Italy the name has been changed to "BEFANA", that is a sort of good witch who brings sweeties and presents to the kids, dropping those in their socks
I've written here of a Ruby IMAP Script.
The script is INCREDIBLY simple (but it had to do a simple thing nonethless):
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
begin_ = Time.now
require 'net/imap'
if !ARGV[4]
puts "USAGE: ruby imapcheck.rb [server] [username] [password] [folder] [flag]"
exit
end
##### Variable Section
## your imap mail server
$SERVER=ARGV[0]
## your imap/smtp mail username
$USERNAME=ARGV[1]
## your imap/smtp mail password
$PASSWORD=ARGV[2]
## your mail folder (for example, INBOX)
$FOLDER=ARGV[3]
## flag to use (as per RFC 2060)
$FLAG=ARGV[4]
##### End Variable Section
imap = Net::IMAP.new($SERVER)
imap.login($USERNAME, $PASSWORD)
imap.select($FOLDER)
count = imap.status($FOLDER,[$FLAG])[$FLAG]
puts "#{count} messages with flag #{$FLAG} \n\n"
total_time = Time.now - begin_
puts "RUNTIME: #{total_time}"
There is another interesting example about this at Will's Blog. It's funny how people try to do the same things at similar times
Of course official doc for this is here.
But If you want to snoop at a more complex webmail application using IMAP from Ruby/Rails you should seriously check out Mailr.
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