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.

Quote of the Day: "No new growth"

My dad has his first post-chemo/radiation MRI on Tuesday and met with his radiologist yesterday. Good news all around with great phrases like "no new growth" and "diminished." Yesterday was a good day, I hope to have many more of them. :-)

Quote of the Day: "The mission is remission."

Short story: dad, brain tumor, cancerous, surgery, rehab, chemo, radiation...

Today he calls up and and says "the mission is remission," not going to argue there.

First post...

I figured it was about time to start my own blog if not only for archival purposes. More to follow...