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I guess everyone heard this but for those who did not: Fallout 3 is in the making and the gaming community is in turmoil.

Bethesda (who bought the IP rights to the Fallout franchise from BlackIsle) has anounced that it is working on this long awaited sequel to the postapocaliptic games Fallout 1 and 2. To stir up the imagination a small (2 minute) trailer was released. It was generated by the ingame engine and brings back some of the memorable elements of fallout: the Pipboy, the Great War, the vaults and of course the armored suit from Fallout’s 1 cd cover.

The developer stated that the game will use a version of the Oblivion engine and the game should be available somewhere in the fall of 2008.

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A few days ago a coleague asked me to help him with a small program that generates a corporate email signature. The trick was that each user would have its own signature with the information being taken from its Active Directory account. At that time he was using a visual basic script that run from a shell and was using a XSL file for generating an HTML signature. It was an easy feat modifying the XSL to generate the wanted result but soon I hit a wall. How can you read a custom telephone

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