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MP3 Amp

bjorn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:56:41 +0000

I’ll take two, please.

Herb Albert – Spanish Flea

bjorn — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:43:41 +0000

This song has been going around like the flu in the office the last couple of months. Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass… Here’s what has to be the funniest interpretation ever of it:

Linkdumping

bjorn — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:09:50 +0000

Here are parts of todays finds, jotted down for later reference: GZIP compression, HTTP Caching, the Pareto principle (plus the wikipedia equivalent), passing elements to event handlers with jQuery, CSS Compress for WordPress, This day in type, Pingdom, We love TXP, Jon Hicks’ google reader theme, lovely inspiring typography works by Craig Ward…

… and now I can finally quit Safari.

How to force UTF-8 encoding in mail.app

bjorn — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:17:51 +0000

Just open up the terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"

It was that easy. Not everyone has to do that I guess, but if you, like me, have had a problem with Outlook users asking you why you’re writing to them in Chinese, this might help get them off your back

Howto kill lookupd after editing the hosts file on OS X

bjorn — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:54:44 +0000

After editing the hosts file (mate /etc/hosts), instead of restarting the computer or logging out, this line will restart lookupd:

sudo kill -HUP `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`

Using the terminal with MAMP on OS X

bjorn — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:15:38 +0000

Recently I was going to take the promising Symfony PHP framework out for a quick test drive, but ran into trouble in the very beginning of the tutorial. I’m running MAMP for local PHP development, but the terminal is using the built-in PHP version for its command line scripting. And Symfony is all about generating models and scaffolds through the command-line in a railsy sort of way… bummer.

A quick search for led me to a discussion thread in the MAMP forum, outlining the following solution. I’ve modified it a bit, using move instead of copy, and adding some necessary SUDO instructions:

Backup current php version by renaming it (optional)
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php4
Create a symbolic link pointing to the PHP version supplied by MAMP
$ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php /usr/bin/php
Done!

Now, onwards with the tutorial…

9 rules and domain name renewals

bjorn — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:37:25 +0000

wow, I must have typed the adress at least thrice before realizing it wasn’t a typo from my side. Must be quite an awkward feeling for those involved… Quite a terrible slip for a company these days.

Hope the renewal has been processed and that the DNS servers catch on quickly. Note to self: Don’t repeat their mistake…