Archive for March 2008
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Lyrical twitter bot
After making the sickipedia twitter bot, I decided to make another that made use of a little bit more of the Twitter API this time. I call him lyricbot. Basically, you send a reply to lyricbot (after you have followed) with a line from a song and it will have a red hot go at […]
Moving your active uTorrent torrents between computers
I am about to reformat my computer, but have torrents in the middle of downloading and can’t wait until they are finished, so this little trick is a godsend.
Navigate to
C:\Users\Brendo\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
and back up the entire directory. (In Vista, not sure of the exact directory in XP)
Then navigate to your downloads folder
C:\Users\Brendo\Downloads
in my case, and back that […]
Doin’ Lines…
Normally when I go to a concert, I write a bit of a review about my experiences there, and with this summer being packed full of musical goodness, there will be a few posts about this. This summer that (once it has finished) will have crossed Rage Against the Machine, Incubus, Offspring, and Korn off […]
The Big Facebook Fail
When the Facebook developer Platform was first announced, thoughts of brilliant applications using Facebook’s amazing viral marketing ability was all I could think about. It was touted as an online revolution. Colleges ran classes on developing Facebook applications and every Tom, Dick and Harry had a play around with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) - myself […]
keytool java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException: signed overrun, bytes = 139
When playing with SSL certificates and Java I came across a very weird error that I could not find a solution to anywhere.
I had submitted my CSR and got the certificate back in an email, so I copied it and pasted it into a .cer file ready to SSL my applet, but when trying to […]
Java RMI Client Authentication
Security is painful. My attempts to make our applet that is using RMI use SSL as well have absolutely done my head in.
First there was the fact that a self signed certificate wouldn’t do. This wasn’t a big surprise, but it wouldn’t even allow me to test my app to ensure it was working before […]
An Octopus Never Forgets; Highlights of Mor0nbah.
Just found this old previously unpublished post of an old work trip to Moranbah. It’s in Queensland’s north west. The trip started with me picking up my hire car, unlike the last trip where I was appropriately provided with a nice new Ford Falcon, this time they blessed me with a Hyundai Getz. Ok, it […]
Opening Twhirl links in Firefox on Vista
So I’m sure I’m not the only one who is extremely frustrated by all links that I click from Twhirl opening in Internet Explorer, even though I have Firefox set as my default browser.
It turns out this is some little quirk between Vista and Air, but it is fixable if you follow these steps:
Step 1:
Open […]
