Monthly Archives: February 2006

French Fry-Encrusted Corndogs

John and My Brother with French Fry-Encrusted Corndogs Originally uploaded by newleypurnell. I needed to share this with you, but it’s not even my friends. Via [Jason Morningstar](http://www.meekmok.com/sassy/2006/02/06/bring-them-here-now/).
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Mongrel: funky server

The [Mongrel](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/) web server project, in Ruby, by Zed Shaw, is taking shape. With some help from Luis Lavena, Zed’s making his lovely Mongrel run on win32, as a Windows service. The last mail I read at the mongrel-users mailing list had Zed oohing and aahing over the Ruby win32 library: Otherwise it’s incredibly cool. It’s [...]
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How to get a dentist in Sweden

In Denmark, dentistry is prohibitively expensive. People go to Sweden to fix their teeth. First, you need a good one to go to. Here is the guy I got warmly recommended: Mikael, at Citytandläkarna. They do not have a website, but they offer prices at roughly half of the estimate I got in Copenhagen. (Also, [...]
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Denmark is Dead: Great programmer booted out of the country

My neighbour Sean Treadway today posted a sad post – he is getting kicked out of the country: > So that’s all folks Denmark has evaluated that my contribution to the country through my freelance work is not of significant value. This is patently horrible. On so many levels. Sean’s one of the really great minds I have [...]
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Ruby meetup: A new wiki

Albert set up an Instiki [wiki for the upcoming Ruby meetings](http://meetup.delamednoll.se/): and you can also sign up there, to add more glitz to the meeting. And then that got old, and “peterj” started a [Rails.se](http://www.rails.se) wiki, with the same kind of wiki software. We promptly moved our SSRUG, Skåne-Sjælland Ruby User Group, to that wiki. [...]
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Danish entrepreneur initiates boycot on Jutland daily

[Mygdal](http://www.bootstrapping.net/living/001406.html) says it: > I’ll never again in my lifetime spend a single cent buying the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. **+1**.
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Railsers for beer

[Albert](http://albert.delamednoll.se/), of the South Swedish Rails community, noted he’d be travelling to talk Ruby on Rails, and that secretly he [wished for a community nearby](http://albert.delamednoll.se/articles/2006/01/11/travelling-in-the-name-of-rails). Why the heck not. This is an open invite for you, my buddies, who are using Ruby on Rails (for anything) to come have a sit-down with other Rails users. Albert suggests Copenhagen, [...]
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