I always used to use the selfssl tool from the iis resource kit

but since moving to windows 7 (or possibly any operating system using iis6), you don't need to anymore.

open iis console

click the computer name (top of the tree)

select 'server certificates'

and then just choose the option of 'create self-signed certificate'

once the cert is made, you will need to go into the website and pick the certificate using the 'bindings' option.

So.. that's finally one good thing about the new IIS console....

E-Snips is a great site for allowing you upload and share files www.esnips.com . The interface is slick, and the client tool makes life easier. It really is one of the better 'free file upload' sites out there.

I enjoyed this beautifully edited video about the web and its progression.

John Battelle's Blog Video

Im enjoying using this really handy tool for picking a good palette for your website.

http://www.colormatch.dk/.

Im also really enjoying the following free website design template sites ..

http://www.oswd.org

and

http://www.openwebdesign.org/

I've just got into Google Reader.

I find it a bit buggy in IE7, but im really liking having feeds from all my favourite sites (this one included) integrated into the one place.

Ok, so I know its only day one ... and shit on the web has the habit of seeming really useful one day, and then me never bothering to visit it again .. but hey I'm going to give this one a go.

One thing that frustrates me a bit about the whole rss thing, is how you can get syndication of content from sites where you need to login. I'm considering writing my own scraping routine in php with my passwords/captured cookies in, and then just exposing that as an rss feed, but im sure im not the first person to be thinking of this ....

my friends company storm training has a really nice looking web site and provides great offers on microsoft office training in south yorkshire, england .

I found it amusing that the Nigerians 419er scam has turned Iraqi


Dear Sir/Madam

I am Mr HASSAN ANIE based in bagdad in iraq.I am the son of late major general in charge of purchase and maintainace in the past sadam hussain regime.Due to the situation here in in iraq,those of us in the business circle are finding it very difficult to cope with the situation here,no stable goverment,bomb explotion at strategic places every now and then,sometimes people find it very difficult to go about their normal businesses due to fear of being victim of terrorist attack,above all.the crisis in iraq now has made business activities totaly parallised for quite sometime now.for instance,no good telephone facilities,no adiquate security,infact,all most all the basic infrastructure were destroyed during the recent war in iraq,ever since then .the enviroment in iraq has never been condusive business wise.

I have about $40million dollars which i inherited from my late father and i will explain to you further on how i intend investing the money if you reply to my personal email below for security reasons.

(hassananie@netscape.net).

I awaite your immidiate reply

Hassan Anie

A while back I blogged about a concert ticket generator that I thought was hilarious ..

Someone showed me a collection of these generator things here ... http://www.says-it.com/

cool huh

rj helped me with a htaccess problem today.

I have a .htaccess on the root of my webserver which requires viewers to provide a username and password.

I wanted a subdirectory to be public, and by default the above .htaccess was recursing down and forcing a login.

The solution was to specify a .htaccess in the subdirectory which contains the following ...

I found these Humourous Medical Slang and Acronyms rather funny.

Favourites included ... Roasted Goober, PFO (Pissed and Fell Over) and PGT (Pissed and Got Thumped).