diff --git a/classes/Avatar.php b/classes/Avatar.php
index cc7a6b6471..8d6424e8b2 100644
--- a/classes/Avatar.php
+++ b/classes/Avatar.php
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class Avatar extends Memcached_DataObject
         if (empty($server)) {
             $server = common_config('site', 'server');
         }
-        common_debug('path = ' . $path);
+
         // XXX: protocol
 
         return 'http://'.$server.$path.$filename;
diff --git a/lib/util.php b/lib/util.php
index 5bf4f6091b..6946f60fee 100644
--- a/lib/util.php
+++ b/lib/util.php
@@ -58,18 +58,17 @@ function common_init_language()
     // (say, ga_ES for Galego/Galician) it seems to take it.
     common_init_locale("en_US");
 
+    // Note that this setlocale() call may "fail" but this is harmless;
+    // gettext will still select the right language.
     $language = common_language();
     $locale_set = common_init_locale($language);
+    
     setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'C');
     // So we do not have to make people install the gettext locales
     $path = common_config('site','locale_path');
     bindtextdomain("statusnet", $path);
     bind_textdomain_codeset("statusnet", "UTF-8");
     textdomain("statusnet");
-
-    if(!$locale_set) {
-        common_log(LOG_INFO, 'Language requested:' . $language . ' - locale could not be set. Perhaps that system locale is not installed.', __FILE__);
-    }
 }
 
 function common_timezone()
diff --git a/plugins/TwitterBridge/twitter.php b/plugins/TwitterBridge/twitter.php
index 3c6803e49a..fd51506388 100644
--- a/plugins/TwitterBridge/twitter.php
+++ b/plugins/TwitterBridge/twitter.php
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ function broadcast_oauth($notice, $flink) {
 
     try {
         $status = $client->statusesUpdate($statustxt);
-    } catch (OAuthClientCurlException $e) {
+    } catch (OAuthClientException $e) {
         return process_error($e, $flink);
     }