Miho and I have been married 5 years on May the 5th (this is the same day as the Japanese national holiday, Kodomo no hi). We celebrated our anniversary a 'bit on the cheap' on Friday by going to a local pool and soaking in the spa, steam room, and sauna and generally have a bit of fun. The finished off the day by having a special meal at home - a pretty mellow affair ;-) Coincidentally, Alexander Limi, one of the Plone founders also celebrated his birthday on Thursday.

Some work I did a little while ago to create a migration script from SimpleBlog to Quills got some recognition from Brian Skahan the other day. It felt good to have a virtual 'pat on the back' - thanks a lot Brian!

First of all, this is an old news item (from 2003!) but it warmed the cockles of my heart to see that two open source applications I use and am jealousy attached to featured as the two most popular open source projects - Plone and KDE.
Further, I'm not a Zope Security expert but security is not easy to setup in Plone; this quote from Jim Fulton (chief Zope architect) puts it in persective ;-) For instance, today I created a role, which I wanted to have basically the same rights as the 'Manager' role but without the 'Manage Portal' permission. Sounds simple enough? Wrong, as the 'Manage Portal' permission is set to 'Acquire permission settings' by default so I couldn't work out how to revoke this permission for my role. Even after I managed to somehow achieve what I wanted, other strange things were occuring when managing the site. In the end I just did a bit of a hack to resolve my issue. I think I need to invest some time in learning to use the VerboseSecurity product.

I managed to get some tickets for EP3 for a group of us for the very first showing worldwide (that's one of the perks of living in New Zealand ;-) Just a tip for locals, if you get a group together (10+) to go to Reading Cinema's The Palms, the tickets are $10 each!