Archive for July, 2007
I clicked on a web page and was redirected to something that redirected me somewhere, and up came my Mail.app
Better luck next time.
These are beautiful if worthless notes.
In a classic case of misinterpretation, the Chinese believed Hell was the English term for the Afterlife. The word was incorporated and printed on the traditional Chinese Afterlife Monetary Offerings, otherwise known as Hell Bank Notes. Some refer to the notes as Spirit Money.
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The 1st International Conference on LDAP is being held in
Köln (Cologne) on the 6th and 7th of September of this year.
The program sounds very interesting and includes a number of topics that interest me. Here is the current list of abstracts.
Directory Standardization Report by Kurt Zeilenga
OpenDS: not just yet another LDAP server! by Ludovic Poitou
OpenLDAP [...]
I was quite amazed at the amount of signs in the UK. I always thought this country had plenty of them, but nothing like the UK if you want to see Verbotsschilder. Unfortunately my camera was on the blink most of the time so there are many I couldn't get.
My favorite was a sign posted [...]
I've been to many a course, but there is only one word to describe the Exim course at Robinson College in Cambridge: it was excellent.
As can be seen on the photograph, I got my hands on a warm copy of the second version of the Exim Book by Philip Hazel, which has been updated with [...]
Amazingly simple home remedies, which really work:
If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto. The blockage will be almost instantly removed.
Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.
Avoid arguments with the [...]