Against entropy.
This is just me linking to my nearby local stores that I’ve gotten recommended. I’ll revise the list when I’ve experienced these. Malmö At Jägersro Center the local electronics specialist Bejoken is joined by almost-an-institution Elfa (Jägershillgatan 20. Open 8AM-6PM Mon-Fri). More inner-city access can be given by Electrokit at Södervärn. They’re open daily at …
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Circuit-bent sound toys; can be excellent, like the above video, or rotten, like an annoying little sister’s sound toy on irritating repeat.
Best of Reboot 10, for me, was Conversation: Free Food?, which was inspired by a format from BloggerCon. 15 min TED Talks video to watch: Michael Pollan on Botany of Desire. Good presenter. Good ideas. On the Conversation’s page, I summed up what was said. Read that. And then Google a lot, and you might …
olledinner.info is the brain-childling of Ruk, who’d heard me say that I’d labeled the days on which I’m responsible for dinner. http://olledinner.info/2008-06-19 will give you a date which is not today, and YYYY-DD-MM… is the URL form you can play with. I noted the RSS and iCal symbols just later. Fantabulous. Thanks!
This error.log entry confused me: [Wed Jun 11 17:09:03 2008] [error] [client 72.30.215.46] \ File does not exist: /var/www/that-darned-site/SlurpConfirm404 Looking it up in Yahoo Webcrawler FAQ unconfused me. (After I’d looked it up, I saw that the IP is owned by Inktomi Corp. – ye olde searche outfit.)
Your Debian Sarge’s web serving has gone weird on you. You restart processes, trouble prevails. Then try this. sudo netstat -tlnp What you’d need to get the apache2 process id, to sudo kill -9 <your process ID here> it. A few times… When all are dead, restart. “It’s a Sarge thing.”
Just got an awesome SMS from my sister Karin: We made it. See you tomorrow at 6 pm. This means her education as a cook is finished, and that we’ll celebrate that. This summer she’ll be cooking professionally, in a Copenhagen restaurant kitchen at Christianshavn. I’ll return with exact details, for the interested gourmand. I’m …
YAPC Europe in “my town”. This is good news. This weekend, I am going to Stockholm, to Nordic Perl Workshop. I’ll try and not get eaten by the twigils.
Yes, this time we take it across the water. Bring yourself, your laptop, and a project. We’ll go to a Copenhagen.rb hack session, where, among other things, the ActiveOIO project will be hacked on. For all details about this meetup, see Hackmeetup.
Quoth the Io mailing list: Io enters the top 50 (at position 49) of the TIOBE Programming Community Index for May 2008. Congratulation! Being on TIOBE is… a step towards world domination.