Check this out.  Hulu is a website that has movies and tv shows, legitimately, that you can watch in great quality on the web.  I don't know who put this together but it is a really good site.

I wanted everyone to know that the xmlmultiblogprovider is going to be pulled from the current code base on CodePlex.  I assumed that the amount of requests on Codeplex would generate some feedback.  Sadly, it did not. It turns out that while many of you voted for the feature, only two other people actually tried it out.  I am going to keep the source on my web site. 

FYI:  It was not intended to be released in BE.N 1.4.   So I am going to pull it out and try it on some of my sites.  If you want the provider I will post it soon enough on this web site.

Meanwhile I listened to a podcast the other day about HttpHanlders and HttpModules.  The interviewee spoke about creating a banned IP lookup to keep known bad servers away from your web site.  So, I took it a little further and mashed up some existing code that did reverse DNS lookups and wrapped it into an BE.N Extension.  You know what, it rocks!  I have hosted email for a long time and know the issues around reverse DNS lookups, so I did not take this decision likely.

In essence, if your IP was banned, the Extension replaces the body of the content serving and replaces it with, "Your IP has been blacklisted....".

In fact, if you can see this page, you are not black listed.

I got the idea from the pod cast "MSDN geekSpeak Webcast Audio: httpHandlers and httpModules with Chris Love (Level 200)" on "MSDN geekSpeak Podcasts" .  You can find more about the developer Chris Love who was interviewed.  You can see his first computer, which is the same one I had at Timex Sinclair 1000

My elderly neighbor passed away the last Friday.  I never really knew him but I thought I should at least post this as a memory that I should look upon in the future and reflect.  His passing taught me that I need to pay attention to my elderly neighbors. 

Best wishes to the family.

Peace and Love

Roman

<div class="hslice" id="1"> 
<h1 class="postheader" >

<a class="postheader taggedlink" href="<%=Post.RelativeLink %>">

<div class="entry-title"><%=GetColoredTitle(Post.Title)%></div></a>

</h1>
<div class="date"><%=Post.DateCreated.ToString("MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm")%> by 

<a href="<%=VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/") + "author/" + Post.Author %>.aspx"><%=Post.Author %></a>

</div>
    <!--<div class="entry">-->
        <%-- <%=Body %> This has been depreciated so please don't use it anymore. --%>
        <%-- Instead use the line below --%>
        <div class="entry-content" ><asp:PlaceHolder ID="BodyContent" runat="server" /></div>
        <br /><%=Rating %>
    <!--</div>-->
</div>

I thought I would let everyone know that I added a beta version of an XmlMultiBlogProvider to codeplex.  Give it a try.  In the issue tracker, http://www.codeplex.com/blogengine/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=2716, I added some instructions.

Please give me some feedback.

1. You need a fresh copy of BlogEngine from http://codeplex.com/blogengine.  I have two utility methods in the Utils.cs that is needed.
2. Create a directory "~/setup/defaultinstall/" and copy all the default files that you want to include in the new BE.N instance in this directory.  I recommend just copying the default entries in the App_Data folder.  Make sure you set the files to read.
3. Make the following changes to the BlogSettings.cs so the StorageLocation property matches Code Change 1.  Decide if you are going to use sub-domains, domains or virtual directories. 
4. Start the application.  If you have IIS set with the appropriate header or have a virtual directory setup this example will auto copy all the files in the "~/setup/defaultinstall/" and create a new site. 

public string StorageLocation
     {
         get
         {
             //for use with virtual subdomains + domain + ports

             // string folder = @"~/app_data/" + Utils.GetSubDomain(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url)  + HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.DnsSafeHost + HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Port.ToString() + "/";

             //for use with virtual direcory

             string folder = @"~/app_data/" + HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Segments[1].ToLowerInvariant() + "/";

             //for use with virtual domain and   subdomains

            // string folder = @"~/app_data/" + Utils.GetSubDomain(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url) + HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.DnsSafeHost + "/";

             string defaultDataFolder = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/setup/DefaultInstall/");

             if (!Directory.Exists(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(folder)))
             {

                 object _lock = new object();

                 lock (_lock)
                 {

                     Directory.CreateDirectory(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(folder));

                     Utils.RecursiveDirectoryCopy(defaultDataFolder, HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(folder), true, false);

                 }
             }

             return folder;
         }

         set
         {
             if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
             {
                 storageLocation = String.Empty;
             }
             else
             {
                 storageLocation = value;
             }
         }
     }

Check out this story about Lake Taneycomo.  I went but didn't see any this big.

http://www.taneycomotrout.com/storyoftheyear2007.html