Random Quote
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
What's Up?
• Listening to sound of rain outside my window
• Also listening to my playlist on shuffle
• Reading The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
• Thinking about summer
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Reminders
• Implement captcha for messages... sick of the spam
• SSL + NIO in Java 5: SSLEngine documentation?
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Tuesday, April 15 2008
I have a blog at Blogger, I want a free RSS feed. [http://freerssfreerss.blogspot.com/]
I'm surprised I remembered the username and passphrase to this blog, but if you come across here, this is merely a historic artifact, and will eventually collapse from digital rot.
Sunday, October 14 2007
RADIOHEAD's In Rainbows is available for download. You are offered to name your own price, from nothing up to what you find reasonable.
It is a fresh, inspiring release for what has seemed to be a very long drought for popular music. (I have the latest Talib Kweli, Aesop Rock and The Orb Sessions II albums coming in the mail, so the potential for a flood of great music excites me.)
Don't let the band's popularity prevent you from enjoying their rare artistic prowess. From Weird Fishes/Arpeggi:
I'd be crazy not to follow
Follow where you lead
Your eyes
They turn me...
I follow to the edge
of the earth
And fall off
Monday, September 3 2007
I just want to post a solution to a problem I had. I hadn't worked on my invoicing system for some time (really over 8 months!), and had to troubleshoot why the mail wasn't sending.
• At first I thought my ActionMailer was screwy, so I reinstalled it. No change.
• I read through the configuration at <config/environment.rb>, noticed I was using sendmail.
• Ran a few tests, noticed sendmail wasn't working. Found mailq, saw that all my mail was queued!
• Went to the log at </var/log/mail.log>, noticed that sendmail wasn't running! Duh, started a sendmail process.
• Sent some more tests, didn't send! Went to the log, all timeouts.
• After more tests and forums, based on suggestions by participants in the forums which I read, came to conclusion that the ISP was blocking the port.
So, I'd have to use an SMTP server. Hmm, Gmail sounded right. After very little searching, I found How to use GMail SMTP server to send emails in Rails ActionMailer. Worked like a charm, and the code if fun to look over.
Whew! There went a day.
Tuesday, August 21 2007
I opened up a Myspace page. Just try and find me.
Saturday, June 2 2007
Well, I'm a Java developer with ProteomeCommons.org, and we're currently working on a better site and GUI overhaul.
Life's slow, the way summer should be. Each day rolls gently on the sholders of the previous.
After two meager sessions, I destroyed my first soldering iron. Here's a picture of the destroyed solder iron, just to show I'm a good sport and am willing to learn. It's replacement is on the way.
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