i@m.fm

I tried today to sign up for an account with digg.com and world66.com. The problem? I never got the confirmation emails.

Since I have access to the mailserver logfiles, here’s one of the corresponding entries:

We
try to reduce the amount of spam for the users of our non-profit box.
One of the things we do, is to make sure that the sender address
actually is likely to exist. So please, make sure it does exist, if you
want us (and many other people employing this method) to receive your
mail. Hey, nobody said it needs to be a real account or someone needs
to read the mail there. Simply pipe it to /dev/null, but do set the
address up. Thanks.

[Update: Digg activated my account manually after I emailed them]
 

Now this is why I love the Internet, and I am very impressed by who seems to have now embraced the age of the participation web: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has set up a Wiki on JotSpot for their The Peer to Patent Project. Maybe this is the first step in the much needed review of our patent laws, as the project is supposed to enable Community Peer reviews of Patents.

Apparently British scientists have created a made-to-order embryo that does not inherit a possibly cancer causing gene:

I feel torn. Torn between many different projects, and of course my
newly expanded family enjoys the highest priority in my life. What is
this blog about? What is the next project I should be working on? How
can I work on as many projects as possible?

I think I am on the way. On the way of clearing the path, to use one of
my employer’s project name. I do think that “clearing the path” does
not necessarily mean to get rid of things, even though it can be part
of it. For me the most important meaning is to sort through the
clutter. Organizing things makes things better and easier to follow.

This blog here for example. It’s a personal blog. It will remain a
personal blog. This probably means it will cover many topics of my
interest. Then there is a neglected family blog, which is in need of a
new name. Ah, and yes, it should not only be in English. Back to the
i.m.fm blog… Some sub-topics (some of them quite popular amongst my
visitors) should be moved to separate sites in order to unclutter this
blog. I am mainly talking about some of my “consumer be aware” type of
posts… And maybe the business stuff needs a new home as well? What do
you think?

One day I will clear through (most of) the clutter, promise
Unfortunately this blog here is not the highest cleanup priority on my
list (my wife will confirm this, even though we probably still disagree
on the top 5 rankings).

As the domain monetization and domain investing space gains more and
more (negative and positive) attention, I think it’s time for a
reminder that I do have a separate blog about the domainer industry:

Domain Editorial: About and for Domainers

“But it’s all worth it” is the sentence you normally hear uttered in
form of a mantra by parents when it comes to the conversation about
having children. Well, count me in

Maybe it’s too early, but little more than three weeks after the birth
of my son, I can say that I get little sleep (which I am used too, but
it used to be on my own terms). It’s especially taking it’s tool on my
wife, who’s been on her own with him during the day now for the first
time after having excellent support from my mother in law for almost
three full weeks (thanks!).

Despite feeling tired (I can only get through one page of the book I am
trying to read on the train before falling asleep) and frustrated about
not being able to follow up with all other duties as needed, there is
that “cloud of happiness” around my head. A little look at our son can make things good again. It is all worth it – and it’s only just the beginning.

I posted a new photo to Kaeden.

As a matter of fact, yes We’ve got all the letters for the name of our son (who is soon to be born), but the “A” you know, I am talking about those wooden letters for the wall by Nexxt. We’ve been waiting for two weeks now.

Apparently we also would have been able to reserve the $2.50 item at Kitchen Stuff Plus for a partial deposit (a cent? ) and they would have tried to get it from another one of their stores for us. However nobody told us about this. Well, 30 “A”s are on back order and 6 people are on the “Waiting for As” list.

Dear Blog:

I am sorry for not having paid so much attention to you lately. Your younger brother, domaineditorial.com, has taken up most of my blogging time. I promised to pay more attention to you in the future

/Frank

Sorry for not posting here lately, but we’ve been pretty busy with the following:

- work
- preparing for the arrival of our son (to be born in March)
- hobbies
- my own business
- many things to sort out
- the holidays

Hopefully I will get around to posting more soon.