Whoops? What’s that?! I’m going to be scared now, but „Your session will soon expire. We advise you to save your post.“ popped up all out of a sudden. Of course I understand the importance of security measures, but normally a session expires after 30 minutes or 1 hour, or usually if you log off from the computer or close your browser window. Nevertheless, the new Blogspirit alert window appears after 5 minutes (5*60*1000 in javascript as calculation). Don’t you think this is too short?

Especially people like me who browse the web while searching for blog-worthy content aren’t „Fast-Blogging“ within the given timeframe of each alert with 5, 10 or 15 minutes. Sometimes it is necessary to rethink a situation before you publish content, and each popup has been annoying. So far I received two of them since an entry takes its time. I’m sipping a cup of coffee or eat a snack, sometimes I read an article or consult other blogs to see how they refer to the topic, etc. Now I had to „Save as draft“ for the first time, because usually the session expiration never pulled me off. This was done because of a mixture of fear, anger and unsureness concerning the behavior of the blog’s admin interface if the third popup would notice me. The HTML source of the post.php told me it’s not going to auto refresh or close the window… phew!

But to protect people from being tweaked by others who get their hands on a PC in i.e. a computer lab or public office, I noticed a nice feature at Hotmail.com instead of the timeout event: Hotmail uses a small checkbox to let the user signal to the server if they reside at a public place or use somebody else’s computer (a very insecure place, checked) or if they are simply at home or use their private computer (a very secure place, unchecked). In any case, you have to manually hit the checkbox as it’s standard option remains on „unchecked“. And in the private situation, the session of hotmail may last very long… however the public session is rather limited.

In general, many other phone numbers will exceed 30 characters… but I noticed upon entering my telephone number in account/overview.php of the admin interface that the number cannot exceed more than 10 characters. But unfortunately my number (without spaces!) includes already 11 characters, if I add the international area code for Germany „+49“, the field needs already to have 13 characters since the first „zero“ of the national area code is erased once international callers use my number. Once I’d try to draw the value for this input field in a more readable format, it would include a minimum of 21 characters as I combine „+49 (0) xxx xx xx xxx“ for my number.

Now it’s time to test this function – I haven’t ever done this: Writing a blogentry by sending an email to the server. The requirements are simple since I need to add an authorized email address which may send posts to the secret (!!!) email address created by Blogspirit. I hope it’s going to work, and who knows how it’s going to show up in the blog. I believe I have to manually change the category and community settings of the entry… stay tuned!

Update:
Yes, I had to manually modify the category and community settings. Perhaps it’d be quite useful to preset any posts being delivered by email?

… and turn out to be quite nice! University started on monday, and I haven’t felt it was eligible to push some thrilling articles about the daily student life into this blog. But today (Day 2) seems to turn out quite interesting. After having a long night with multiple fractional times of being awake, Kat woke up at 6:45 am to prepare for her Arbeitspsychologie course while I preferably stayed in bed until approximately 8:00 am. By enjoying the amazing breakfast containing cerials and a cup of chocolate-coffee, I was reading some news and prepared myself for university. While I left the appartment, I met Kat who returned from the course, and she told me straight forward that it didn’t take place at all. Well informed about her progress, I continued my journey to the campus and participated in 10 Minutes of an introductory moment in Sozialwissenschaftliche Methodik 2 before heading back to our institute.

There I felt it was time to consult the secretary of the Institute for Medienmanagement to seek information concerning the applications I sent in during the term break. Good news is – my application has been accepted for the Medienmanagement 2 course and Prof. Dr. Friedrichsen is going to read into all the materials and papers which arrived while he was on vacation.

For now, I’m waiting for Desarollo Regional 2 to start and I’m accompanied by Kat in the Munketoft Caféteria. There’s some time left to read news, blog a little and read into her newest entry.

I received an interesting letter via snail mail last friday which officially denied me to participate in the Information Technology 2 course due to the fact that I’m according to their records in the second semester. But this has been a mistake by the Syddansk Universitet which is in cooperation with the University of Flensburg. Since I need this particular course to complete my studies in International Management for the Bachelor of Business Administration, I immediately called their secretary to clarify the fact that I am in the fourth semester. After leaving a message on their answering machine, I received this email today. Thanks! ;)

Dear Mike Oliver Schnoor

Unfortuntately, there has been a mistake!
You are of course enrolled for the course” Information Technology II” for SS05.
I’m sorry for any inconvenience.

Kind regards
Karina Madsen
Syddansk Universitet

I was wondering about the intensive ammount of traffic drawn from this Blogspirit account, and I concluded it had to do with the filesize of each HTML document (or PHP output). I simply ran a test on the subdomain and it turned out the following details by using the Leknor tool:

https://mikeschnoor.com is
not gziped.


If it were gziped the requested page (38910 bytes) would be the following sizes at:

Levelbytes% of orig size1k/sec3.5k/sec10k/sec100k/secutime
038926100.04113810.93.80.41
11040626.743810.22.910.10
21021826.2606102.910.11
31005425.83919.82.810.11
4951724.4599.32.7 0.90.1 1
5935924.05299.12.60.90.11
6929423.88599.12.60.90.11
7929223.88089.12.60.90.12
8927723.84229.12.60.90.11
9927623.83969.12.60.90.11
The 1k/sec column is the time to download the compressed version at 1024 bytes per second.
Headers:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:03:09 GMT
Server Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) AuthMySQL/4.3.9-1 PHP/4.3.10-2
Vary Host
X-Powered-By PHP/4.3.10-2
Set-Cookie PHPSESSID=3d2c05aa0fc6bf43bbe882a100dfa24f; path=/
Expires Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma no-cache
Content-Type text/html; charset=utf-8
X-Cache MISS from chili.private
X-Cache-Lookup MISS from chili.private:80
Connection close

I feel like publishing the recent photo modifications for my desktop’s wallpaper, and I’m starting with a blurred and stylized image showing the skyline of the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin followed by another photo I’ve taken in late fall 2003.


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Why are companies not able to ask native speakers of a language before launching a service in this particular language? I feel numb by reading this banner ad on the ICQ Homepage… but Kat’s and my lungs were filled with Oxygen nitrogen while laughing so hard at it! On the other hand, I hope the translations done by myself aren’t that bad, but this is a classic. „ICQ – Jetzt aus Deutsch“ is completely false, instead it should be „auf Deutsch“ if the language is meant by the designers or „aus Deutschland“ if they refer to the country itself. Thanks, now opting out!

Update
Thank you Mirko! We didn’t notice the „Jezt“ mistake at all since the original „Jetzt“ has a subordinary value due to the spelling mistake compared to the clear grammatical mistake of „aus“. Well… I believe ICQ should take care of their foreign language ads, and I’m going to take care of the Blogspirit translation again – time to recheck the work from the holidays ;)

Just to keep track of what I wrote on other blogs, here’s some backlinking to the few articles Highlights, RSS Feed für Sprblck? and Macht was draus…:

Mir war grade so als müßte ich bloggen, also haute ich das Modemkabel (ich hasse Modems!!!) in den Laptop und es pfunzt. Worüber ich mich jetzt auslassen will? Na klar, über die filmischen Highlights, an denen wir uns ergötzen dürfen. Heute vormittag haben wir (Kat und ich) wieder festgestellt, dass im deutschen TV Programm nur sinnloser „Ostermist” wiederholt wird… Highlights ( 03.28.05 @ 9:06 pm )

Whenever people start to suffer, the media is there and awaits them. These prancing ponies don’t care for their victims but rather for the collected money from their commercials. Let dying people die and don’t cannibalize their corpses for your purposes. Honestly, I did not care about Terri Schaivo since the whole scenario of her death was abused by the media and the US‘ government – it did not affect me in my small life as I have to suffer from several things on my own, but who cares about this? Nobody. And why should I bother to watch that many news concerning her – she was meant to die once the nutrition was turned off because nobody can survive such drastic measures.

Now the media turned away from Schaivo and concentrates on Count Rainer from Monacco and the Pope Johannes Paul II who both are old men suffering from diseases and the most dangerous truth from which everybody on this planet will suffer… the age. Mario Sixtus made quite a simple comment on the media show: „Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Sports“ (translated) is flashing everywhere and everytime on TV. But why focussing again on dying people, and especially as the (proudly claimed) „whole world cares“ for the pope. The term of „whole world“ is quite an obstacle since the majority of the world is not christian, and especially not catholic or hierachically oriented towards the Pope: It is a religion practised by nearly 2,000 million people worldwide compared to the other religions Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Sikhism which roughly make the other 4,000 million people.

But however, most of all old people do wish to die since their life was long and fruitful, but others do not wish to die as they might have some things left out in their life. Why won’t the Pope die? Because he is kept alive with artifical technology… isn’t this a great concern to his prime objectives of preferring truthful catholicism instead of modern advancements? Amusing…