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puh. I think this was the third attempt I tried to fix this problem. Finally, it seems to work. As so often, the problem seems usual enough and one sometimes wonders that Drupal is not better with these very common things. But, let's be more concrete.

I have a site where I want to display news. News are classified in various categories using taxonomy terms. Now, I want these categories to appear in the menu and the menu items active when I see the posts. Just common-sense functionality, one would think.

I recently tried the DFG-Nationallizenz. Any person living in Germany can register an account and use many (not all) of the resources offered via DFG Nationallizenz. The registration porcess is slightly complicated. Like with ebay.de, you first need to register online, confirm this first registration online and then wait for regular mail. The latter, of course, to verify the postal address. In my case, it all worked reasonably fast.

Last time, I reported my problems with cleaning my iTunes library.

In the past, I had various problems with storing my mp3s, hard disk failures and consequent attempts to save them etc. I must have played back my backups more than once, anyways, I  nearly have every file at least twice.

Due to loniless, I bought an iPod. Looks good and works. It's nice to listen to music again. Didn't do this much lately. Only problem: iTunes drives me crazy. Maybe slightly more than my other media players. Perhaps the time has come to deal with the problem?

Really, I can't believe it. I am back to my problems with ftp again. FTP is so limited: the in-built security breach with unencrypted password is only the tip of the iceberg. Today, I realized  that the limitation that you cannot transfer from one remote site to another etc. is most likely built in the protocol specification. What I don't quite get is how so many people (including me) still use it? How can web providers still offer only ftp access and nothing else. And above all, if that is the case why are there not better perl modules for ftp around.