Hi all

I have decided to start up a personal blog as well. I get a few complaints from people who don’t care about my personal life, and therefore, I will be moving personal blog entries to my new blog at http://jan.eliasen.dk – with an RSS feed at http://jan.eliasen.dk/syndication.axd

This blog will NOT change! Well… personal blog entries will not appear anymore, but other than that, I will still be blogging about technological abnormalities, funny things, strange things, errors, and what not…

So, for Jan, the person, go see http://jan.eliasen.dk

Thanks

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eliasen

Hi everyone.

I have just upgraded the software on my blog to dasBlog version 1.9.7174.1.

I hope it has been smooth for you all, and if you notie any difficulties, please let me know.

Later, I will upgarde to dasBlog 2.0, which has been out forquite some time, but one step at the time, ight? :-)

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eliasen

Hi

Finally(!) I found time (Well, I should probably have done something else...) to review the design of my eliasen.dk homepage. It was awful, black and very much outdated.

The new design is better, updated, brighter, happier, implemented in .NET and much more :-)

If you have comments about it, feel free to send them to me.

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eliasen

Hi

Well, the time has come for me to start running again.

11 years ago (when I was a soldier), I was quite the runner. My best times are 5 km in 17:30 and half a marathon (21,0975 km) in 1:32:46.

Since then, the weight has come up, as the amount of exercise went down :-).

Anyway, I have lost about 7kg in the last 3-4 months, and now was the time to start running again... and today was the first time.

A local fitness center had an offer for new members, that I have taken, so not only did I run today for the first time in a very long time, I also did it on a running machine. That took some getting used to! :-) I managed to get the damn machine running, but then it stopped... then I started it again... and then it stopped. Probably next time I will get some help figuring out how to set the machine appropriately. The run itself went fairly well... around 7km. I will have to bring some music the next time, though.

It felt pretty weird, that I did some interval training, where the maximum speed (16 km/h) was just about the same speed as I ran for an hour without breaks in my earlier years (15 km/h) :-)

So, any goals, Jan? Yes, off course. I have a couple;

1. I would like my average time to run 1 km to be about 4 minutes.
2. At "Limfjordsløbet" (14 km) at the end of May (2008 :-) ), I want to run faster than a friend of mine called Tom. Also, running faster than my old boss Anne would be nice :-). 4 minutes per kilometer would take care of both :-)
3. At some point, I want to run a marathon. I will wait a couple of months to set any specific dates, times, etc. for this one, since I am really in no shape to guess right now :-)

My legs are fine, I believe.. but perhaps tomorrow I will edit that part out of this blog post :-)

The plan now is to run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on average.. sometimes it will be Wednesday instead of Tuesday and so on.

Wish me luck...

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eliasen

Hi everyone

Right now I am attending the Quicklearn BizTalk 2006 R2 Deep Dive course. I have taken their BizTalk 2004 deep dive and 2006 deep dive earlier, and now the time has come to the R2 one.

The last two times I was taught by John Callaway, and this time it is Alan Smith.

Basically, if you feel like taking a BizTalk course, that goes deeper than the normal courses, I highly recommend the quicklean course.

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eliasen

Hi

Inspired by my post some weeks ago about me mending a fuse on our car, I really have outdone myself this time.

First of all, I have changed a light bulbe on my parents car.

Secondly, I have exchanged the dripping faucet in our kitchen for a brand new none-dripping one. It was actually quite a mess, and after a couple of trial-and-errors, I got it working. So now we have a new faucet in the kitchen - it doesn't drip, and I made the switch!

:-)

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eliasen

Hi all

This isn't about BizTalk, .NET or anything else technical. This is about ME!

The other day I mended a fuse in our car.

Really? you might say.. so what? Well, to me this is a big deal :-) I don't like getting dirty hands - I generally never do anything practical around the house... I am lousy at it, I hate it, and I would rather pay someone else to do it.

But then, the back light on the car stopped working. I changed the light bulbe, which in itself took me about 2 hours, including driving to the gas station to buy a new bulbe... and then it turned out the original bulbe wasn't broken. That sucked! Then I decided I had to take the car to the mechanic... but a friend asked me if I had checked the fuses. Well, duh... off course not - how would I do that? So with the manual in one hand and a screwdriver (YES, a screwdriver... me... a screwdriver...) in the other hand, I found the fuse that wasn't working anymore. I drove, once again, to the gas station, bought a new one (approximately one dollar) and put it into place. And now the back lights are working again.

WOW! What en experience, eh? :-)

So after reading this, you might still think: "Is this guy crazy? All this fuzz about mending a fuse (Thanks to Mads Orbesen Troest for telling me how to say this in English)? YES! It's a bg deal! :-)

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eliasen

Today, I discovered, that google groups can tell me how many posts I have made to newsgroups.

I switched profile at some point in my newsgroup career, so there are two profiles to watch:

This one (my first) and this one (my current).

Quite a lot of posts, actually - no wonder I get tired every now and then :-)

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eliasen

Well well - a week ago, I finally decided it was time to start running again. In my earlier days, I was quite the runner, but the last 10 years or so, I have really been lazy :-S

Anyway, I ran 4,82 kilometers last tuesday, and 4,82 kilometers last thursday. Things went faily well, so yesterday it was time to run just a little bit faster.

BUT, after 4 kilometers or so, I teared a muscle :-(

So now I am not running... I am not even walking like a man :-(

I hope to be able to run again in a couple of weeks :-S

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eliasen, who isn't running anymore.

Hi

A couple of weeks ago, I switched from using web10 to using needhost as my web hotel provider. The primary reason for this was, that the mail service at web10 was incredibly instable. Half of the time, I couldn't connect with my pop3 server, and then suddenly, my mailbox was frozen somehow, so no new mail arrived for me for 6-7 days. That did it, and I switched to needhost.

I am very happy being at needhost - and everything seems to work well right now.

So hopefully, the blog will now be up and running for a looooong time :-)

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eliasen

Hi

Recently, I decided it was time for me to start looking for a new job. Luckily, I found a new one, and as of August 1'st, I am no longer employed at WM-data. I have been at WM-data since June 23'rd 2003 - just after I got my masters degree in computer science. I have been very happy with the job, but lately, I started wondering if another job might be even better.

I found this job at thy:data, where I have been hired as a solution architect for their integration projects. I will still be using BizTalk Server and I will still be the same me - just at another company.

Also, as a little side effect, I have decided to start a very small freelance company with just me in it. the company will be called eliasen.eu and the homepage with more information will be available soon, I hope.

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eliasen

Hi

It so really annoys me whenever I have to change my ways of doing things because some people insist that it is okay to bother others.

Spam is a great example - the mere fact that I can't write my email address in a public place without receiving spam the next day. Sigh.

Anyway, I, as many others, have disabled trackbacks on my blog, since it was filling up with porno and other stuff.

Should anyone have a good solution for dasBlog, le tme know :-)

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eliasen

Hi

I received the diploma for passing the 74-135 exam in BizTalk server 2004 the other day.

And... well... see if you can spot the error:

I have phoned support. They will correct it and send me another diploma. Until then, I am very proud to be the only person in the world (unless anyone else has gotten the same diploma?) that is certified in BizTalk Server 2003 :D

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eliasen

Hi

Well, today was the day where I passed the 70-235 exam in BizTalk Server 2006.

So now I have passed all three BizTalk exams - BizTalk 2000, BizTalk 2004, and BizTalk 2006. Anyone else who has done that? :-)

I wonder how soon I can order my welcome kit at microsoft.com/learning :-)

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eliasen

Hi, and welcome to my very first blog entry here at http://blog.eliasen.dk - I hope to be able to blog about some issues I run into using BizTalk and other server products from time to time.

Let me know if you have any questions and/or comments for me.

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Eliasen Jr.