Martin Geisler Online

I got a lot of nice presents yesterday: books, a good salt- and peberset, a sweater, and a headset for my telephone. Two of the books were by Leif Davidsen and contains five of his best stories. I haven’t read anything by this author yet, but my mom tells me that he is good, so I’m sure there’ll be a spot for the books in my collection of GoodBooks. I didn’t get the [book][2] I wrote about a couple of days ago, but then I’ll have to buy it myself or hope that I’ll get for my birthday which is just four weeks away…

I haven’t tried the headset for my phone yet, but I’ll give it a go as soon as I get back to [Skejbygård][] again. The problem is that I cannot use my keyboard when I talk with my dad — it’s very annoying to sit and type with only one hand! With the headset I should have total freedom to roam my room when talking with people, I’ll be able to do the dishes while talking :-)

Now that I’ve got a beautiful salt- and pebberset from Rosendahl I’ll be able to throw away my old set. The old set was just a cheap plastic set and you had to be very careful not to pull off the top when using it — Jesper Klintø will be delighted when he hears that he wont have to use the set again :-) -Martin Geisler

[2]: [ISBN:0201700735 | http://isbn.nu/0201700735

I’m currently waiting for the Opening Ceremony here at The Party 2002. They’ve just fired a bunch of fireworks (prematurely?) so the air is thick with gun-powder or something like that… The good thing about this is, that it makes the laser beams show up nicely in the air :-) -Martin Geisler

Christmas is finally here! Tonight we’ll be having a nice meal, and afterwards we’ll dance around the christmas tree. When that’s done too, then we can get our presents. Here in Denmark we get our presents on the evening of the 24th and not the 25th in the morning as in the US and other countries.

So I would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas! This year has been the most fantastic year for me. I live with some truely amazing people here at [Skejbygård][], and I’ve received so much possitive feedback through GimpsterDotCom. Thanks a lot everybody!

Christmas Eve is coming quick now — just one day to go! I’ve made a lot of wishes this year, including ”The C++ Programming Langauge” by Bjarne Stroustrup; ISBN:0201700735, so that I can learn some C++. I’ve played with C++ before, see my entry for [/2001/10/29/], but it’s never been much. With this book, then there’s no excuse for me not to learn and use the language. And now that the The Party. I’ve been in Aalborg the last two days, but today I went back with my father to [Skejbygård][] in Århus to pick up my computer and Grandma. Everything should be ready for The Party — I have the ticket, my computer, an inflatable madras, and ear-plugs. Now I just need some CocaCola :-) I read on http://www.theparty.dk/ that the visitors consumed over 27.000 litres of Cola last year, and I’m sure that number will increase again this year… -Martin Geisler

!!!Adding redirects

Now that I’ve moved the WikiWikiWeb to a PhpWiki:PrettyWiki (see also [/2002/12/06/]) there was just one small glitch left: the first link on [Google:Martin Geisler] still points to =/phpwiki/index.php/~Martin Geisler=… The problem is, that this URI still works, and so Google wont remove the page from it’s database.

I’ve now made PhpWiki send out a =HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently= header whenever someone tries to access the WikiWeb using the old URL. I’ve simply added these eight lines to the top of =/phpwiki/index.php=:

if (substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 0, 8) == ‘/phpwiki’) {
  /* This skips past ‘/phpwiki’ and possibly also over
   * ‘/index.php’ if it is present: */
  $url = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 19);
  header(’HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently’);
  header(’Location: http://’ . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . ‘/wiki/’ . $url);
  exit;
}

You can read about the HTTP/1.1 standard in RFC:2616. This should ensure that Google updates it’s links the next time it traverses GimpsterDotCom.

Denmark has just won the final in the European Handball Championship for Women — way to go! I haven’t paid much attention to the matches, but it’s always fun to watch when Denmark wins :-)