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Dad

P1000127, originally uploaded by rmisek.

"just remember that somewhere your dad is the shining light on a northbound train" -- a friend

The end of the "Blog Roll"

After seeing Dion's post on the Google AJAX Feed API, specifically the PartnerBar, I decided to start a little "Coherence Blog Network" as seen at the bottom of the page here (still playing with the formatting). This works nicely as long as you quickly identify all of the typos in the PartnerBar Programming Guide (thanks for the assist Dion).

The only downside so far is that if the list of blogs change (as the most certainly will - i.e. grow) we have to update the JS for all of the blogs that are participating in the "network." Which leads to a feature request - find a way to have clustered consensus of the information that makes up the "network" across the blogs in the "network" itself.

Getting back to the title of this post, "blog rolls" have always been horribly hard to maintain. With a small amount of work it would seem easy to tie the PartnerBar concepts into GoogleReader (perhaps narrowed by label, trend, starred, etc?). Therefore having a dynamic and easily maintainable "blog roll."

R.I.P. Byron -- The Professor

1996-2008

You were faithful, playful, honorable, energetic and just a damn good friend.

I only wish I could have seen you one more time... safe travels.

"e@" -> Web 3.0

Text conversation with Brian yesterday:

Brian (4:45): e@
Me (4:46): Huh?
Brian (4:47): e@
Me (4:47): Huh?

Then nothing...

This morning over coffee I was asking him what the txt was all about - seems it was just his phone screwing up and sending random "e@" txts to random people. I commented that at the end of the txt conversation I ended up feeling stupid for not knowing what "e@" was short for (assuming it was some sort of l33t-speak), so of course I googled it and found nothing relevant.

Jon happened to be with present for the conversation and commented "That must be Web 3.0!"

Jon might as well be British given his proficiency at dry humor.

Update: Brian moved his blog here

Freaked out by Twitterrific

One of my co-workers came over and said "so you're researching the Wii?", which caught me a bit off guard since I hadn't spoken to him about it. It ends up that he saw it in my Adium status. I had just used Twitterrific to update my Twitter account. A quick Google confirmed my suspicions that Twitterrific defaults to updating my Adium status automatically with my latest tweet. Cool - yes. Good - not so much when at work ;-).

Cisco VPN Client on the Mac - Strangest Issue Ever

If you are running Mac OSX, the Cisco VPN and have Parallels installed and your VPN connection only stays up for 5 seconds at a time and you are seeing these errors:

Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client.
Reason 422: Lost contact with the security gateway. Check your network connection

Check out this thread.

Basically, you need to disable disable Parallels' networking:

1. Apple > System Preferences > Network
2. Double click "Parallels NAT"
3. Change "Configure IPv4: Using DHCP" to "Off"
4. Click the "Show:" pulldown to find "Paralells Host-Guest"
5. Change "Configure IPv4: Using DHCP" to "Off"

At first read I didn't even consider trying it as it seemed completely outlandish, after getting more frustrated I decided to give it a go. Worked immediately. Obviously, I created a new "Location" with these settings.

Also, if you can't connect at all and see these errors:

Output size mismatch. Actual: 0, Expected: 237.

Check out this thread. Make sure to either reboot or restart the cvpnd process.