TOOLS: Sauce Reader v1.7

New version 1.7 of Sauce Reader (review here and here). What are the new improvements and functionalities?

  • Integrated comment download, reading and posting using the Comment API.
  • Improved security for handling potentially unsafe HTML in feed items.
  • Support for common operations (e.g. delete item) from inside the browser window.
  • Feed reading with the browser window maximised (2-pane view).
  • NEWS: working session in Zurich :-)

    We had a very hard working session yesterday (actually half a day off, with some wakeboard on the lake, more pictures to come!) in Zurich. We began with one of our special “brainstorming”…in the McDo ;-) And yes we know “supersize me“. And no, we don’t really care ;-)



    left: philippe, middle: laurent, right: lorenz (i’m behind the camera, the “big tasty” belongs to me)

    Update: Laurent added his own view here :-)

    WEEK-END: Ecomusee of Alsace

    I’ve seen yesterday some very beautiful old half-timbered houses at the Ecomusee of Alsace (only in French) – Alsace is a region of the north-east of France, near the German and Swiss borders, where I live and come from. My region is often represented by storks, which can be found also in the Ecomusee.

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    The Ecomusee of Alsace is the largest open-air museum in Europe, visited by nearly 400’000 visitors yearly.

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    It contains about 70 traditional style buildings which were dismantled piece by piece in their village of origin and reassembled in this living museum. It features constructions dating from the 12th to the 19th century. Visitors can study the technical evolution of traditional building methods.

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    A half-timbered house from a little village called “Artolsheim”, near the Rhine. I was built in 1561. This house was salvaged from destruction in 1987 at the last minute… Above: before the transport and renovation, below: how it looks like today.

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    The one below comes from Gommersdorf and was built in 1682.

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    All that made the daily life of this period (and specially the 19th and 20th centuries), the work and the celebrations of the past generations, is collected and demonstrated. You can also enjoy numerous activities and historical reenactments, as seeing (and hearing) this old tractor.

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    Really a beautiful place I recommend if you visit our region!

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    NEWS: some statistics about spam

    A recent study of MessageLabs concerning the evolution of spam was published here. It gives some interesting statistics about spam during the first semester 2004:

  • 5.0 billion emails scanned (anti-spam service), thereof 3.2 billion identified as spam, i.e. 63.5%. In comparison, during the same period in 2002, the quote represented 1.5%, in 2003 37.9%.
  • 5.6 billion emails scanned (anti-virus service), thereof 468 million containing virus, i.e. 8.3%. In comparison, during the same period in 2002, the quote represented 0.3%, in 2003 0.5%.
  • MessageLabs intercepted about 1.5 million phising emails (emails containing URLs to fraudulent websites) during the same period.