Congratulations are in order to my friend Nicolas Ritoux. He's upgraded Hysterie to use a CMS and CSS. Hysterie is a venerable online magazine here in Quebec, and Niko's converted the site (formerly hand-coded in HTML) to use SPIP, a clever little CMS which seems to be working nicely for him. I think the principal reason he chose it was that it was made in France, however.
Anyways, I know he's been working hard on it, since he wanted the site to match pixel-perfect with the hand-coded, table-based, old style. I'm glad he's done; it looks really good.
tags: niko spip hysterie cms css
FreeYourID.com
I was pretty psyched to see on Scott Kveton's blog the story about the free OpenIDs from the .name registry. Apparently the FreeYourID.com site gives you a free 90-day trial of a .name registered domain, which you can use as an OpenID.
I've been using my .name domain as my OpenID for quite some time. I think they're pretty cool.
tags: .name opeinid freeyourid.com kveton free
Read receipts
I've been having a lot of trouble with email lately. There's been such a flood of stock fraud spam that many of my outgoing emails get caught in other people's spam traps, or lost in the crowd of UCE.
I've started requesting read receipts on email that I send to individuals (not mailing lists). It's a simple way for me to make sure that email is getting through to people.
I actually like read receipts a lot; I hate writing "I have received your message" messages, and read receipts are a quick and easy alternative. There are some folks who don't like read receipts, and that's fine; they'll just have to put up with me asking through other channels if they got my email.