This morning at 1:30 AM, I reached a new milestone in the development of the publishing tool I am developing for Tech Head Brothers web site. I was able to publish content directly from Word 2003 using a Web Service secured by WS-Policy and a X509 certificate.

Yesterday, finally, I was able to create a X509 certificate working correctly with WSE SP2. After lots and lots of trials using makecert without any success, I tried openssl under cygwin. And guess what, the certificate was working correctly. That was the main issue I had since a while.

Now I am searching for a way to install the public part of the certificate during the setup of the application. Any ideas?

I just started to test the combination of Jetbrains Omea Reader and IMHO 1.0 Instant Blogger. Omea is good when you read rss feeds and newsgroup. I like the way you can search, create categories, views... For the moment I couldn't find an easy way to quickly se the thread I started or replied to for examples in all my newsgroups.

InternetActu.net » Niklas Zennström : “On ne peut plus faire payer pour des appels téléphonique”

I like his market vision.

Microsoft Notebook: Top exec shares business lessons

• It's often better to cannibalize your own business than to give someone else an opportunity to do it.
• In some situations, your biggest competition is yourself.
• One of the best ways to compete is to bet big on a "paradigm shift."
• When you dominate a market and you're looking for ways to grow, adjust your thinking to enlarge the potential market you're pursuing.
• Keep your mind open to unexpected opportunity.