People peaceful right regions..

Hope: the text of President Obama's Mideast Speech mapped in a "tagcloud" on the middle east.

I have been hosting my domains at home ever since 2000 or so. I even did my own mail server in 1998 at home when I first got TCP/IP via cable, but with the amount of spam I get, that was no fun. Hosting at home is no fun. The temperature of my box goes through the roof on a hot day, when my girly is rewiring the electricity my host goes down and the boxes are very noisy.

So after a decade of hosting at home, time for change. Due to Ber Kessels advice, I now host at Linode. It rocks!

I still maintain the box myself with full root access, but there are so many nice addons. I have for example TTY / console access on a seperate IP address, lots of MRTG stats and a very good documentation. Setting up a Drupal website for example can be donme with an imeg (Ubuntu, PHP, Apache, MySQL, all in one image) and you can "burn" your own images.

The only drawback? On the iPhone app you can reboot your system with one click. Not good in combination with kids :-)

Shamless plug, if you want a Linode account as well, use my referral code

When the news broke out about the death of Osama Bin Laden, all "professional" journalist used the same 3D scene as can be seen on my Flickr stream. Since I like many consider myself to be a "citizen journalist", I challenge traditional media to be more responsive and creative. I sat down behind sktechup for an hour and tried to replicate the compound in 3d.

Here is the first raw sketch I made in 10 minutes:

And semi transparant the "finished" product:

More screenshots can be seen on flickr, including a video with some basic animation.

Not all journalist are lazy, this Japanese channel even made a real 3d model, checkout japanprobe.com.

Some people editing wiki pages like Osama bin Laden's hideout compound and other journalist have asked me to release the 3D model. So here attached you will find the ZIP containing the Google Earth / Sketchup model. Note that this work is licensed under the CC-BY-NC license and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Please read it to understand if and how you can reuse this material. Also note that the drawing was done by a true amateur and in a very short period of time. The house for example is not done well. Feel free to build upon this start.

You can also choose to accept the Google Sketchup license and grap a copy from the warehouse.

UPDATE: yes, on wikipedia!

Ten years ago. A decade. Ten years ago I registered drupal.org and gave the domain after a couple of days to Dries. I can still remember choosing between .com (more popular, even then) and .org and decided to register the later. I found it a better fit for the community. If I wasn't so cheap, I would have registered both but the domainname claiming was not where it is today. In the end, everything went well and drupal.com was donated as well.

Now d dot o has a pagerank of 9, many subdomains, an own URL shorter; dgo.to and there are thousands of domainnames -most not complying with the trademark policy- with Drupal.

Ten years ago. A decade. I think someday someone will study the history of our community in an academic way. I also think that we should document our own past; "Project Drupast, documenting the future that was". As an open source community, much of our activity has been very well preserved, in code, documentation and on post on d.o itself. A bit of history can be found on the history page. But it doesnt do justice to our rich culture of ten years rocking the web. So take a look at a small timeline I started on tiki-toki. I know that with drupal core, cck, views, the timeline module and lots of templating, this could be done in Drupal as well and would welcome any initiative like that for "project Drupast". But untill that day, I would like to gather a couple of people who would want to help me putting the most important dates in this timeline. So if I know you, trust you, please contact me to get Drupast kicking like d.o does.

Ten years ago, I wrote Dries "Have fun with the new domainname". He did. We did. d.o rocks!

During the DrupalGovDays conference I got from Roel de Meester from my employer's partner Krimson some iron-on Druplicon patches. And with my kids loving Druplicon as well and lots of Druplicon goodies in the house, Aart wanted the iron-on patches on his old trouwsers. In fact, there was only one knee to be patched but why stop there?

This young boy with Drupal patches got me wondering, what is the youngest and the oldest person in the Drupal community with patches to modules, maintaining a module him or herself and maybe even a core patch?

Drupal, for all ages? Sure. But the general bias is that a Drupal developer is white mail in his 30ies. Not true? Let us debunk one of those and go for the youngest and olderst active person active in the Drupal community. If you are under 20, post the date / link towards your fist patch, first module and /or first core patch. and if you are above 50, do the same in this thread.

Post your data at http://drupal.org/node/1123940 and proof that Drupal is for all ages.