Published on
April 27, 2006.
Tags: Blog.
I took a round trip to Copenhagen yesterday for a meeting with our thesis supervisor. Although I drove from home as early as 4:45 in the morning I noticed something weird during the flight to Copenhagen – seat row no. 13 was missing? I found this a little bit weird, but didn’t think much of it until later that evening when we flew back home again. Neither of the two airplanes used on the flights home had a seat row no. 13 either, and that was when I really found this weird.
I have been trying to figure it out today with a little bit of googling, but this mystery is still unresolved to me.
UPDATE (05/31/06):
I had another round trip to Copenhagen this monday. When we used the self-service check-in kiosk and were about to select our seating on the plane from Oslo to Trondheim, we noticed that the plane had a seat row #13. It didn’t have any available seats though so we did select some other row. After getting aboard the plane we could confirm that the seat row #13 was there, and our quest for the missing seat row was to end.
During the flight I flipped through the SAS Braathens flight magazine, and in the Q&A section I found the same question, asking for seat row #13. The answer from the carrier company was the same as suggested in the comment from Bendik; it’s superstition. The question in the magazine had a twist though, because the former SAS planes (SAS and Braathens are two flight carriers that merged in Scandinavia) didn’t have the 13th seat row, but the former Braathens planes do. The answer didn’t say, but that can also be related to the fact that the SAS planes (at least the newer ones) are from Airbus and the Braathens planes are mainly from Boing.
Published on
April 25, 2006.
Tags: Blog, Web.
Last month I had a [post][mypost] about [MacZOT](http://maczot.com) and their BlogZot offer to [AppZapper](http://appzapper.com/). Today they are doing it again with [BlogZot 2.0][bz], and this time it's the collaborative text editor [SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys][sub] which is in the cheap stakes.
[mypost]: http://www.lindsve.net/2006/04/03/appzapper-offer-at-maczotcom/
[bz]: http://maczot.com/
[sub]: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
Together MacZot and CodingMonkeys will award a total of $105,000 (!) in software licenses. That is huge, and I would recommend all of you Mac users to go to their sites and check out this great offer.
I have occasionally used this editor, and although I find it to be a good text editor it is the collaborative features which I find most appealing when it comes to this peace of software. To be able to do live collaborative editing together with your friends/colleagues is a definitely winner!
So what's the catch? Nothing basically, all it takes is that enough bloggers out there blogs about this great promotion. So if you're a blogger, I advise you to immediately check it out at and participate!
Update: I did get a free license for SubEthaEdit for this post. Whohoo! 
Published on
April 25, 2006.
Tags: Blog, Web.
Today I have updated my site to the newest release of [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org). While I was at it I also did a reformat of the pages on this site, utilizing the [PHP Markdown](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) format. This makes it a lot easier to edit text since it provides a much more human readable text than pure html does.
I've also dropped using a dedicated blog editor after I installed the markdown plugin, since it is a lot easier to use [TextMate](http://www.macromates.com) in this process.
Yet another thing which I've added is the use of [Technorati](http://www.technorati.com) tags, which you can see below my posts. This publishes my posts to the technorati blog directory.
There are currently numerous different solutions available for providing computer users with enhanced computer security. There is a problem with most of them though; They seem to only target the automated threats like computer viruses, spam, phishing, etc. Now enters a new player in town, called [CID Security](http://www.cidsecurity.com), which aims to be a major provider of:
1. Increased privacy, confidentiality and integrity
2. Increased computer stability and performance
3. Knowledge about computer security issues
The final point should be a big winner. Most computer users aren't geeks. Period. How can they then know what to do regarding their own computer and information security? So far, the main provider of such information is the neighboorhood/family geek which delivers a set solution – "When dialog X appears, push button Y". This solution won't last, and that is why the ordinary computer user needs a way to easy learn about the different issues involved in computer and information security.
The first product to be released is called Basic Security, which aims to be a Computer Security 101 for ordinary people. There isn't a lot of product related information on the web site yet, but that will be available in good time before the release.
Published on
April 20, 2006.
Tags: Apple.
The permission system in Mac OS X can at times be truly weird. Today, when I was going to update iScrobbler, I tried to do a plain replace of the application in the /Applications folder. My daily user is currently set as an administrator account, so that should be quite easy. When I dragged the application to the folder, Finder asked me if I wanted to replace the existing application and I confirmed this. Then I was told that I didn't have sufficient permissions to complete this task. Since the previous version was installed with my ordinary admin account, I didn't think that much of it.
The weird issue here is that I was allowed to delete the existing app by dragging it to the Trash, and then copy the new one to the application folder. Since my current account was not allowed to replace it, why was I allowed to delete it?
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