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Software engineers have an occupational disease: They fix problems.

Next time you’re with a software engineer, try showing him a chair that’s broken, or a fridge that’s making noise, and I’ll bet you…

The first time I thought it was a mistake and went in a day early. This time, I’m realizing they mean it seriously.

When Post Denmark delivers a package to my office at 9.30 am, and I’m not in, it’s …

Mono RPM: It’s now completely painless to start playing with a free version of C#/.NET. Super cool. It unstalls without a glitch on my Redhat 7.2 system.

If you live in Copenhagen, you’ll appreciate my latest shortcut:

If you’re looking for a restaurant, bar, shop, concert, movie, anything going on in Copenhagen, try the pinds.com/f/aok/ shortcut.

To…

I’ve been setting up OpenACS a lot, lately. Here’s what I use so I remember to do everything right each time: Setting up OpenACS. Please let me know if you have some cool ideas that would make my setu…

Since I’ve moved back to Denmark and started to use more Danish web sites, I’ve been busy adding shortcuts. Why? Because the interfaces of Danish web sites generally look great but are poor in use.

T…

Finally got around to reading this article on social network analysis: How people share their knowledge and collaborate. I love this stuff. It’s really just pointers to other articles, books and peopl…

Just got an email from Neophytos saying that something was wrong with my site rendering on Mozilla, so I checked it out. Turns out it was this very long word, that confused Mozilla:

“everything-and-t…

A couple of people got back to me to remind me that there are alternatives to rackspace for hosting: There’s hub.org, which is good for hosting OpenACS sites on a shared box cheaply. And then there’s …

I hate having to sysadmin. So I’m constantly looking for free or cheap hosts for the fundamentals. Not in the VeriSign everything-and-the-kitchen-sink- but-you-have-to-pay-extra-for-everything- and-yo…