http://andreineculau.com/blog ...trying not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. (Albert E.) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been having lots of 500 Internal Server Error messages on my blog lately. Well, sometimes because of the way Wordpress eats up memory, sometimes because of something else.. the cache! When you see that your blog is running a bit slow (it happens in shared hosting, and especially with memory eaters) ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/11/no-wordpress-cache-on-dreamhost/ andreineculau.com is back.. Why down? Reason: Dreamhost Specific Reason: Dreamhost's Databases They never acknowledged this on their notification site. Why? Reason: Caught the flu.. after all, it's breathin' Scandinavian air Side Reason: Wordpress is a memory hog!!!!!! [caption id="attachment_286" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="What do we have here?!"][/caption] In short: a normal PHP-CGI process on Dreamhost's servers takes around 10 MB ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/11/black-november-20/ It's been a long time since the last post, and even if I have other things to tell, it feels normal to let you know about my last post and related blog changes. I'm still against the concept of Twittering.. nothing changed. I still find it quite useless, with one exception. After ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/11/twitter-plurk-facebook-rss-lifestream/ I understand why nobrainers use Twitter to say - I've just woke up - I'm brushing my bad breath away - Wow! No cereals? - Hmm.. I forgot to pee. - Uhhhhhhh... What a relief! ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/10/my-love-to-twitter-ers/ Let's say that a freshly admitted student, name him a whoever Ikrom.. wants to get a bank account in Sweden, after getting his personnummer. He goes, with his admission letter, passport, photo, personbevis for bank account, etc, etc. He ends up at a branch and is told that they cannot give bank ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/09/swedish-lack-of-responsibility/ If you cannot SMS your foreign friends from your Tele2 number.. just read the following. WTF?? Hej och välkommen till Tele2! Du pratar med Ida Jnsson. Vad kan jag hjälpa till med? 16:30 Hej. I have a Snackis subscription, but when trying to SMS a non-Swedish number, my message doesn't reach ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/09/tele2-starts-to-be-2penny/ Pfff... So all this for nothing! Why? Because in order to get a monthly plan with Tele2, you need to be employed or to receive CSN money (which is only for Swedes anyway). Swedish friends to the rescue!!! The support lady was nice though :) http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/08/tele2-abonnemang/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="62" caption="Posten"][/caption] Today, I figured out once and for all my “issues” with Posten (Swedish Post Office). So… things is like this. You get to Sweden, you put your nametag on your mailbox. The mailman comes one day and notices the new nametag. Posten then registers you in their “system”. Only afterwards, mail ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/08/posten/ It took almost 4 hours for Aron and me to get the KTH Access Card and a kth.se account. I guess almost all the new international Master students studying in Kista came today. Oh joy! I don’t get this type of organizing things. It that’s what somebody calls “organized”. It was bad for ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/08/access-card/ Some days ago, when I bought the TV tuner, the girl at Kista Galleria’s ONOFF store started speaking in Romanian (she’s not Romanian, or at least doesn’t seem to). For a second there, after a week of mostly down-with-spirits mood, it almost felt good. Now, for years, I have been critical in ... http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/08/is-it-a-sign/