I’ve had an account at bloki.com for a little while. They provide free web pages and weblogs with a pretty full-featured editor. The service is nice, but it really hasn’t been anything to get excited about.

Well, recently they added RSS feeds to each weblog and just within the last day or so each account also has been given the ability to create free forums. And, on top of it all, it looks like they’re going to add weblog import so you’ll be able to pick up your weblog from another account and transfer it to your bloki.com account.

So, free web pages, free weblog, free RSS feed, free forums … hmmmm …

No, I’m not affiliated with bloki.com other than having one of their free accounts.

There’s a really well documented procedure at http://neologasm.org/b2mt/ for exporting a blogger.com weblog and importing it into Movable Type. This is nothing more than the directions you can get from MT but with screen shots for each step.

MSKB 820892 lists what’s installed with .NET Framework V1.1.

SynchronEX is an interesting looking tool. Can do N-way syncs of files and folders between a laptop, a server and a desktop (for instance) at the click of a (mouse) button.

Still not too crazy about it (Kerio V4 beta 5) and this morning, after the laptop going into and out of hibernation about 8 times over the past few days, the Kerio firewall driver failed … think it ran out of memory. Unfortunately, I was right in the middle of something pretty important so I didn’t record anything, just rebooted and took off again. One other problem I had yesterday, it seemed to freeze me out of the network twice after coming back from hibernation. I just disabled and reenabled the firewall and everything got back to normal. It’s a beta — things aren’t supposed to work 100% yet.

Aside from those little hiccups, I’m still not comfortable with the interaction mechanism. The color scheme of the pop-ups or something makes me wanna hurry up and permit or deny access as opposed to thoughtfully selecting the right options for the more-or-less permanent rules. And the “simple” rules are recorded in a different place from the “advanced” rules and the two don’t mix — you can’t take a simple rule and make it in to an advanced one. I’m gonna stick with it a while longer, though.

Next up is the new Zone Alarm Pro V4. A friend works at ZoneLabs and he’s recommending it highly (hi, Alex!) and he’s not the kind of guy that would steer me wrong.

There’s nothing wrong with it, just that I prefer the interaction methods of AdSubtract PRO. Course, WebWasher Classic is free and AdSubtract PRO costs money but I don’t think that necessarily has anything to do with it — the WebWasher folks have plenty of other products that cost money so they probably know how to do a UI fairly cheaply. One thing I do wish, though: that updates for AdSubtract PRO were forthcoming. It seems almost like they’ve stopped developing it and maintaining the ad database. That said, there’s nothing wrong with it. Oh, sure, one thing I’d change: I’d like to be able to request that AdSubtract PRO ask me if I want to allow a pop-up window to appear instead of just always silently killing it — that’s what CookieCop 2 from ZDNet does.

Check out http://www.pcworld.com/resource/rss/0,00.asp. News as well as top downloads.

I’ve been running XP for, what, almost 2 years now and, while I’ve considered some of his suggestions before, seeing them in print finally motivated me to make some of those changes on my laptop. See his article in Information Week.

See this link at TechBargains — look for the Epson C82 item. There are 2 rebates: a $50 and a $20. In-store price is $99.99. Printer has both USB and Parallel interfaces. Note this is not a Photo Stylus.

kbalertz.com has been around for a while, emailing the newest additions to the Knowledge Base to subscribers to the free service. Well, now it’s got RSS feeds, too. Go to this page and select the technology you’re interested in (don’t click on the Hot link, click on the name of the search). You’ll see the orange XML logo next to the title of the technology. Grab that link into your favorite RSS reader and you’re off. For instance, the RSS feed for “All Microsoft Search Topics” is here.