Just discovered this social media site for designers (I’m not one!). It’s called Dribble and according to the site:
Dribbble is show and tell for designers.
I was also playing with wordpress Jetpack and found the publicize plugin. I linked it to everything I had an account on. Let’s see how much it spews out on the interweb!
| 8/27/2013 | Item departed to final destination | SINGAPORE-SINGAPORE S05 |
| 8/31/2013 | Item received at Sorting Center | LEBANON-BEIRUT SORTING CENTRE |
| 9/3/2013 | Item handed over to Customs for clearance | LEBANON-Parcels unit |
So if you don’t ask about your stuff or track them, they simply get resent to sender without a warning! I never got a notification that the watch was sent to customs for clearance. I had to call LibanPost (hotline: 1577) to find out. Then I had to go to the main office near the Beirut airport to “clear” the watch.
Apparently, the pebble was either a “threat to national security” or “too expensive” according to the guys at the clearance office. That’s why they had to charge me 40$ and print and scribble on 11 different forms (4 of which were in triplicates). I felt I was picked up by a Vogon ship.
Anyway, it’s here now and I’m feeling good about it. 🙂
I faced a bit of puzzle today with Tomcat/Apache setup.
Tomcat is running in the background with Apache as frontend via mod_proxy_ajp. The site loads ok except for static files that return a 404 (File Not Found) on first load, then show up normally on refresh!
The apache configuration looks like the following:
Alias /static /var/www/static ProxyPass /static ! ProxyPass / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/ ProxyPassReverse / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/
An example failing URL: http://example.com/static/images/email.png;jsessionid=3892BC4B4C26073338268AF98ECA73D6
And in the error log I see the following:
[Fri Sep 06 10:18:14 2013] [error] [client 00.00.0.000] File does not exist: /var/www/static/images/email.png;jsessionid=3892BC4B4C26073338268AF98ECA73D6, referer[…]
Then it dawned on me that apache wouldn’t know about the jsessionid if it was not sent over to tomcat for processing. Since apache was handling static files the session id needed to go.
Solution: I added the following rewrite rule
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule static/(.*);jsessionid=.* /static/$1 [R,L]
related searches I came across while googling:
page not found when including jsessionid in URL
;jsessionid and 404 File Not Found
Apache getting confused by encoded jsessionid’s (404 Not Found)
A few weeks (months?) ago there was a (very low) buzz in the Lebanese social media (twitter, blogosphere) about someone (MP? MoT?) announcing that LibanPost will “finally” be using a post code system for Lebanon. That sounded like great news, in spite of the fact that (as many pointed out) a similar announcement was made almost 10 years before that and no one knew about it (especially at LibanPost!)
I am ordering a couple of nifty items for myself (a Pebble and a MYO). And I am actually considering delivering them home, since I live in Beirut now. So I called up LibanPost hotline (1577) and asked if they have a way to tell me what my postal code is. The very nice lady at the other end took a couple of minute and asked me the same question a few times before it dawned on her that I’m actually asking for my own address’ postal code. I’m not too good at explaining things on the phone (or verbally in general), so I’m not blaming her. But when she knew what I was asking for she was very kind to point me to the next step:
Call 01629629 and ask for Mr. Mouhammad Hashash
I am assuming that’s public information, so I’m posting here so people searching for the same info might have a trail to follow. I called the number and Mr. Hashash was indeed the person to call. But since it was (almost) 13:00PM, he was on his lunch break. No one was there to replace him unfortunately. But the good people (3) at his office were kind enough to take my phone numbers and my address (I thought they were going to give me the postal code finally, but it was only for the note they took). So now I wait for the call. Hopefully we’ll get a Postal Code soon (and that the delivery men at LibanPost would be able to use it!)
UPDATE: at ~15:30 the kind Mr Hashash called and simply gave me the Postal Code for my building. I’m going to test it out real soon.
