Jan-Piet Mens

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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Thanks, Suzanne!

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 2.4 Highlights by Howard Chu


• Architecting the Modern LDAP Renaissance: The Apache Directory Vision by Alex Karasulu


• A Reference Schema for LDAP-based Identity Management Systems by Frank Tröger


• ACL Design behind IntegraTUM's Decentralized and Delegable Group Management by Daniel Pluta


• Design of a Directory Tree by Giovanni Baruzzi


• Apache Directory Studio, a new Open Source LDAP & Directory Tooling Platform by Stefan Seelmann and Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot


• Complexity in a Global Directory Backbone by Hilla Reynolds


• Spring LDAP - Java LDAP Programming Made Simple by Mattias Arthursson


• The Highs and Lows of Integrating LDAP with XML by Steven Legg


• LDAP Proxy and Virtualization—Requirements vs. Capabilities by Abdi Mohammadi, Robert Polster, Andre Posner and Cengiz Tuztas


• LDAP Stored Procedures and Triggers in ApacheDS by Ersin Er


• Scaling Directories, Design & Deployment Considerations by Abdi Mohammadi, Robert Polster, Andre Posner and Cengiz Tuztas


• The FederID project by Clément OUDOT


• Moving LDAP writes to Web Services by Kostas Kalevras


• How to write highly efficient LDAP Applications and stop swamping the server by Felix Gaehtgens
• Lessons learnt from Samba's LDAP backends by Volker Lendecke

Registration is open. I'll be going.

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 on a tiny little road going through nowhere. Just before a very small railroad track was a sign that read: "Slow and long vehicles phone in to get clearance to cross". WTF? How slow must a vehicle get to require that kind of treatment?

I also liked the description of a camel found in Windsor

as well as the fact that disabled get better prices when parking.

This next one is a plain lie:

service at this Tesco was pretty fast.

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 a large chapter on content scanning.

Amazingly simple home remedies, which really work:

1. 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.


2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.


3. Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.


4. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.


5. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough.


6. Have a bad toothache? Smash your thumb with a hammer and you will forget about the toothache.

Thanks, Nic!