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Introducing Suicide Surfers

Joe and Jay have never surfed, but nevertheless left their regular life and will head soon to Australia to learn surfing. Why? Joe explains in a recent diary entry:

Getting used to the new office

We had been "practicing" cohabitation with the two companies since early June, with the Innopoli2 office mostly serving as a mailbox, and so the move was quite painless. Some of the office infrastructure was changed, like installing our network printers and adding more desks. The office has much less capacity than the combined number of employees in the three companies,...

Endorsing MidCOM's Migration to File System

Current situationTo those unfamiliar with Midgard development, Midgard Framework itself has been written as a C system library and a PHP extension. The Framework provides services like authentication, templating and content storage. The actual Midgard applications are written on that foundation in PHP and stored in the Midgard database as pages and "snippet" objects.MidCOM functions as a component system written...

Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

The Nibelung's Ring series is based on a combination of Nordic mythologies and medieval German stories. A central part is played by the ring of power forged by dwarf Alberich from the stolen Rhine gold. The struggle for the ring eventually brings about Ragnarøk, the end of the Norse gods. Wagner composed the series in mid-19th century.While we did not...

Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries

First part of the movie tells a very appealing and realistic tale of a motorcycle road trip in the third world. Many of the scenes and situations feel very familiar with my own road trips.After the sad demise of their '39 Norton the movie gets more serious, and describes the Che's Siddhartha-like enlightment through views into the poverty and plight...

Hunting a PHP segfault

The segfault seems to be triggered on pages that have multiple mgd_auth_midgard() or mgd_unsetuid() calls. In most cases the crash happens only after Midgard request has completed, but before output has been sent to the browser, as reported by Torben.In OpenPSA Personnel this happens when administrator modifies a user record. There we have worked around this by simply exiting the...

Finnish Championship of Fireworks

We watched the contest from Kaivopuisto near Cafe Ursula. The whole central Helsinki was very crowded, but by lane splitting a bit with my motorcycle we could easily find a good viewing point.The contest has been set up in the memory of the shelling of Viapori by a British and French fleet during the Crimean war in 1855. The citizens...

Elisa's Network is Down

The connection went down first time around noon, and returned after 2pm. Now the connection has been down since around 3:45pm. When trying to reach Elisa's Network solutions site to find out when things will start working again, the ColdFusion server only responds with:

Running OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X

The tutorial seems to solve the main problems I've had with OOo on my iBook, including keyboard mapping and PDF generation. What it doesn't help with, though, is the horribly slow start-up time.Another interestion option would be NeoOffice/J, a Java port of OpenOffice 1.0.3 that runs natively on Mac OS X. As an X11 server won't be needed the start-up...