Jacken’s Blog

When watching yet another documentary series about the work in an ER, this time from England, my wife checked the symptoms of one of the patients and said “That’s Hortons cluster headache!” The doctor in the documentary thought that it was a brain hemorrhage or something. After referring the case to another, more senior doctor [...]

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It doesn’t take much to realize that you are far removed from nature. Yesterday the whole family went to a small summer cottage for the day. The toilet wasn’t working because of repairs. And we are talking about a house in the middle of nowhere. During the day I took my camera gear and went [...]

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Not being able to sleep is so annoying. Now I can’t even sleep when on vacation. After a while you just want to scream. And you know that all of tomorrow will be spoiled because you’ll be tired as hell. I’m now in Jönköping and were planning a trip to a place called High Chaparral, [...]

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I’m now sitting in our house at Åland, downloading some pictures that I took early yesterday morning. Great weather, and in an hour we will take the boat and do some fishing. Groucho got his first fishing rod and he’s practising outside the house right now. Everything is perfect. This morning I had to try [...]

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Got my camera and lens today. And to my amazement, it seems to work. I haven’t done any extensive tests yet, but initial tests looks good.

Now off to Åland for some vacation.

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I just put in an order for a green iPod mini for my wife. Her birthday is coming up, and this is the first time she wants a gadget. She’s totally unimpressed with stuff normally, the iPod being an exeption. Could I expect her wearing a propeller hat in the near future?

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For the second time I have my Canon EF 70-200/f4 L lens in for adjustment. The lens have a back focus problem. The difference in focus compared to before adjustments? None. Canons repair center is outsourced to an other company here in Sweden, and you got the feeling that they haven’t a clue. So [...]

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I got a Nigeria letter, but this one from Italy. The mini-penis mwatson@katamail.com is trying to scam me using the recent bombing in Madrid as a way of fooling people to send money to him. By using my last name as a way of legitimize the email, he tries to make it sound official. Using [...]

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Update: After Apple Security Update 2005-001 it easier to use a pre-compiled version for the new version of php. Download here.

I’ve been struggling with installing the Turck MMCache PHP Accelerator on my Mac OS X Panther Server. After downloading the source here, i tried to do the following from the command prompt:

tar xvzf turck-mmcache-2.4.6.tar.gz export PHPPREFIX=”/usr” $PHPPREFIX/bin/phpize ./configure [...]

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So I’m back from another endurance trip. This time to Norway. We left Stockholm on Wednesday afternoon, heading for Molde. As usual, the planning was meticulous. Car, check. Snacks and drinks, check. Planning and maps? No way. Getting to the border was no problem. Then about 10 miles from Norway I realized that they would [...]

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