A locksmith hint from Malmö

Life hint: Do not insert the wrong key in the lock, you could fiddle the tumblers of the lock, so that the lock no longer fits your key.

Life hint for Swedes: hitta.se search for “låssmed” and a location like “Malmö,” and you can also see the many locksmiths near my home. Abba Lås-specialisten was first in the list, and had a cellphone listing. Good. Cross-referencing this info with another search gave that this was their “on-call” number.

Interesting to see companies that do not need websites. A polite voice in a phone was more than enough.

Another Ruby conference

The Ruby folks in Texas know how to please a soft-heart like me:

This is a non-profit conference. The organizers are not paid and any profits will be used
for future conferences.

Also, the financial books are open and we will be publishing payables and receivables.
The purpose of this is to help other conference planners and to assure attendees that their money is well spent.

Very impressive, and great. Messrs Jim Freeze and David Bluestein II and Damon Clinkscales – big up from the Oresund Ruby massive.

Also: The format of a “pre-conference conference”, where the attendance fee is a donation to a charity, is a neat pattern that more and more conferences follow.

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Moved to Malmö

Sweden’s third-largest town (270 000 inhabitants in the City, 600 000+ in the metro area) was initially called Malmhaugen (“Gravel heap”) – Wikipedia told me, so it’s true.

Now, the name of the town is Malmö. And it is my town. And, Luisa’s.

My address is Löjtnantsgatan 8B, 21150 Malmö, so update your address containers.

The phone number, land-based is +46-40 66 70 774.

Annals of HTTP headers

I got a weird header from my local Apache 2.2.4 today.

X-Pad: avoid browser bug

These guys could tell me what it was:

In six cases the HTTP message “X-Pad: avoid browser bug” was sent. This was an unannounced change to Apache version 1.2b9 which provided a fix for a bug in Netscape versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2.

Who knew.