For most of 2009, I’ve been happily using my T-Mobile VPN service on my new phone, however as of this month T-Mobile has decided to BLOCK my device from their end based solely on the manufacturer of the unit, UNLESS I pay another $25 a month on top of the $20/month I’m already paying for [...]
I’ve been using my Android Dev-1 phone on T-Mobile for a while now. I’ve had the T-Mobile VPN service which is useful if you need to do non-trivial connectivity things with firewalls and VPN software. For some reason, in the past few days when I try to go online, I get a blocking [...]
There’s a great book called The Bottomless Well, appropriately subtitled “The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy“.
This great article about hybrid owners driving more and getting more tickets dovetails nicely with the book’s premise.
The firm looked at several common use categories used by insurers—including “pleasure [...]
I really need to stop reading the reviews of pens over at Fountain Pen Network. It’s killing me. The Pelikan Souverän m420 is beautiful, but damn why does it have to be so expensive.
I really need to look at the more economical series, like the m215. It’s very modern and sleek, plus [...]
A field trip to the water plant included some “big truck” time.
You learn something new every day and I had no idea that USUK (i.e., you suck), also means penis in Inuit.
I want this pen so badly. The sad thing is that it is a special/limited edition so eventually it will sell out. $350 is a lot to pay for a pen though.
With luck, I’ll have some spending cash later in the year and they’ll still be available.
It comes in two editions, one with [...]
Does this candy taste strange to you?
(New Jersey) FDA monitors chocolate factory after death. One day after a worker at a Camden factory fell to his death in a vat of chocolate, federal authorities were at the facility on July 9 to make sure the company did not ship chocolate that had come into contact [...]
I recently tried the beta of Heroes Of Newerth and it was very fun. Not being a Warcraft 3 player I was completely confused by the mechanics and gameplay, but I was able to go a few rounds online.
The best part, hoewver, is that they are developing a native Linux, Mac and PC version. [...]
If you’re using eclipse and find yourself getting the following errors:
Cannot connect to keystore.
java.io.IOException: This trust engine is read only.
It’s probably related to certificate installs (such as that needed to complete the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse install).
After doing that, try running keytool -list, if you get an IOException about an invalid keystore, then delete ~/.keystore
The [...]
