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As time goes by I consider even more the idea of closing all my projects.

I tryed contacting the icculus.org website, to get information about their opensource software hosting service.
It sounded like a good option. I read about them being an elitarist community, highly selective, but I supposed this was proof of professionality.
It seems to be instead just the consequence of a whimsy nature which decides who is to be accepted and who is to be refused, according with self temper rather than with a logic of free software sharing usefulness, as it should be.

I sent them a 1st email trying to aquire more information about them, also being thankful in advance for the time spent for me in replying.

After almost a week without getting any reply, I sent another one saying that being them either too busy or simply too ill-bred to be unable to reply to me, they were probably not the right place for me. OF COURSE THEY REPLYED TO THE 2ND EMAIL IN JUST A FEW HOURS, apologising for having missed the first email, but adding that "they would have definitely not hosted my project in the chance the've turned out being to ill-bred for me".

Of course.

I call this sarcasm. I understand that they can feel hurted, but it's been their mistake missing my 1st email and I'm growing tired of trying to contact people who don't reply to me (see previous posts). What whould you do, being ignored again and again?

I never gained a cent sharing my little softwares, and even if it happens that people download them (and, I guess, also use them) almost daily, in the 99% of cases I never got a simple thanks.

Careful: not that I want people say me thanks for them. It's enough for me to see that someone find them useful. But it's right because there's nothing earned or gained except for satisfaction, that forbidding tools for sharing stuff for everyone's good, just because of personal issues or bad temper, is simply stupid and sad (and it's right for this reason that I'm so undecided about closing all: I feel I'm disappointed and embittered).

Icculus, of course, as any other service of the same kind, has the right to decide what to host and whatnot. But a discrimination like this one is disappointing and surely demotes the image of the service itself.

I'm in the meanwhile already browsing the sourceforge options (and it's a hard work since it's bloody slow as usual: I can't even logging in!) to search for a way to close all.

And by the way I'm also ill.
bleh, let's see what will happens..

y.

uff.. I finally managed to fix the new blog.

I'm waiting to make some medical tests at the hospital, so while waiting I took the chance to quickly do something I was thinking at since many months now: writing a little custom software to run my blog.

I've been inspired by the previous one, simple php blog. But this one is rewritten totally from scratch, except for a couple of functions I fixed according to my requirements, since writing them was wasting time to get the same result or maybe something worse.

I named it B-WARE! which stands for Blog Without Administration Resources Embedded. This because to post a message I have to write the text directly into a formatted php file and upload it onto the server. It may sound complex but it's just the same for me. : )

I tought also to upload it on sourceforge but that place becomes more and more weighty after each restyle. As usual I wasted hours to get nothing done about uploading files and having the site working. Then I found that they still use php4! Or at least I didn't find any option to turn on the v5. So it was going to fail anyway.
One of these days I'll get sick of it and I'll move my projects somewhere else. Too complex. I need a consulent to use that service... And it's also so damn slow that I fail also in logging in... bleh...
well, I'll find a way to distribute it. It'll be my 4th software project. : )

Anyway, here at least it works. How is it? Do you like it? I hope so. : D

y.