Kristian Fiskerstrand Web services

A new project was just started dedicated to BlackBerry development over at bb-d.net .

For now it is lacking content, so the most interesting is probably the short url interface at bb-d.net with a corresponding blackberry client to get short url\'s starting with bb-d.net.

The API that it is using, is however hosted on www.kfwebs.net (registered users only) .

The API already supports multi-user and multiple domains (where certain domains are only accessible to certain users for posting)

More details, API docs and an UI for click statistics will probably follow (if I get around to writing it)

Lacking any other article added the past year, the OpenPGP key has yet again been updated, this time for 2009 . This now has the following key data

pub 4096R/6B0B9508 created: 2005-02-21 expires: never usage: SC
sub 4096g/9888FB03 created: 2005-02-21 expired: 2005-12-31 usage: E
sub 4096g/DC95F9F6 created: 2005-11-09 expired: 2006-12-30 usage: E
sub 4096g/FD83BAC5 created: 2006-11-01 expired: 2007-12-29 usage: E
sub 4096g/2BCE5B4B created: 2007-10-07 expires: 2008-12-30 usage: E
sub 4096g/18C0B580 created: 2008-10-27 expires: 2009-12-30 usage: E

In preparation for 2008 a new encryption subkey has been added to my PGP key 0x6b0b9508. This now has the following key data

pub 4096R/6B0B9508 created: 2005-02-21 expires: never usage: CS
Primary key fingerprint: 65F1 73BE C045 0DA0 7A58 6197 16E0 CF8D 6B0B 9508
sub 4096g/9888FB03 created: 2005-02-21 expires: 2005-12-31 usage: E
sub 4096g/DC95F9F6 created: 2005-11-09 expires: 2006-12-30 usage: E
sub 4096g/FD83BAC5 created: 2006-11-01 expires: 2007-12-29 usage: E
sub 4096g/2BCE5B4B created: 2007-10-07 expires: 2008-12-30 usage: E

The updated key is available on the public keyservers ( www.sks-keyservers.net )

Backups are vital to sustainable behavior, yet a scary majority fail to maintain proper backups.

Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

There have been similar situations before, and I've mentioned it here at e.g. www.kfwebs.net

Hopefully they haven't done the same as in August 2001 there was full chaos for nearly two weeks after the storage solution messed up, or rather, a human working on it did while they were installing new Hard Disk drives and got ready to format the new drives. The only problem was that they ran it on the operational drives instead of the new ones.

The difference, however, starts at "and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.". Ok, so this still shouldn't be an issue, right? because there are obviously offline backups for this kind of information: "There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable."

If you haven't slapped your forehead already, this is the time to do so. The full story can be read at www.msnbc.msn.com , and folks: remember to back up your data.

As a result of Registerfly loosing ICANN accreditation, ICANN directed Registerfly — between now and March 31st — to unlock all domain names and provide all necessary authorization codes to allow domains to be transferred to other registrars.

At which point current customers of registerfly will have to move to another domain registrar.

People wanting to transfer their domain to KF Webs sibling site www.passive12.net can do so at www.passive12.net . New customers are always welcome.