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The DotnetNuke for Dummies that Lorraine is writing is well on the way to completion.  I have been helping out with the author reviews and we are over half way there now.  All the chapters will be submitted by 1st Feb and hopefully it will be off to the printing from there .  Can't wait. 

I didn't get reawarded my MVP this year which I'm very disappointed about.  So I have decided to get it back as soon as possible.  To do this I am aiming to get onto page 4 of the ASP.Net Hall of Fame.  I was on page 6 a few days ago and have managed to scrape onto page 5 this morning so things are looking good.  I have also just hit 500 posts on www.dotnetnuke.com which should also help out with my eventual reawarding :)

That's me at the bottom aus_nexxus   You can see the hall of fame here http://www.asp.net/resources/community-recognition/hall-of-fame.aspx?tabid=41.

I also cracked a mention on the home page of ASP.Net

Its good to be back in the swing of things at DNN again.  Got my post rate up again.

I just noticed on ASP.Net that the number of posts in the forums has been replaced with the recognition system.  This sounds like a great way to properly recognise our community.  http://www.asp.net/resources/community-recognition/default.aspx?tabid=41.  I really liked how contributions that require a bit of effort such as moderating, replying and submitting articles get recognition now.

http://vstsrocks.com/tutorials/default.aspx

We released DotNetNuke 4.4.0 a little while ago and i have found it to be a lot faster than previous versions of DNN.  This release was our first Performance Release and has been a great success.  You can read about the performance improvements in Charles' blog http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/BlogsDotNetNuke/tabid/825/BlogID/15/Default.aspx.

Pablo has a great post on how to create X509 Certs for development.

Bumper stickers and other political messages recently sighted in US:

Is It Vietnam Yet?.
That’s OK, I Wasn’t Using My Civil Liberties Anyway.
Bush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber.
Let’s Fix Democracy in This Country First.
If You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to Iran.
If You Can Read This, You’re Not the President.
Of Course It Hurts: You’re Getting Screwed by an Elephant.
George Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have to Fight.
(over a photo of Bush) Electile Dysfunction.
America: One Nation, Under Surveillance.
They Call Him “W” So He Can’t Misspell It.
Which God Do You Kill For?
Jail to the Chief.
No, Seriously, Why Did We Invade Iraq?
Bush: God’s Way of Proving Intelligent Design is Full of Crap.
Bad President! No Banana.
We Need a President Who’s Fluent In At Least One Language.
We’re Making Enemies Faster Than We Can Kill Them.
Guess What? Bush Doesn’t Care About Poor White People, Either.
When Bush Took Office, Gas Was $1.46.
The Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century.
What Part of “Bush Lied” Don’t You Understand?
Bush Lost Iraq. Deal With It.
Even Nixon Resigned.
Bomb Texas. They have oil!
The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected.
Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that!
A politician should do two terms - one in office and one in jail.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Well the Month of Movember was a lot of fun and I'll definitely be doing it again. The Readify Team raised over $3000.00 and had a bit of fun doing it. Aymeric and I went to the Movbember Gala Party which was a blast. Check out our team Mo's and the Winner of the Mr Movember.

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I cant believe the complete incompetence of BigPond Broadband. I am still offline and have a Technician coming out to my house tomorrow to fix the stuff up. That will be 16 days offline.

What really annoys me is the total lack of accountability inside BigPond, no-one cares and no-one gets fired for being useless, they just put you through to another department. I had 9 departments on a call on Saturday, thats ridiculous and no-one could really tell me what the problem was. Today I found out that the exchange is not synchronised on the port I'm using (or some cock and bull story).

So we'll see how tomorrow pans out.

After having nearly 600 posts wiped when Telligent upgraded the Forums on ASP.Net I have finally got back to the 1000 posts mark.