http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog the incoherent ramblings of brendo Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:02:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I finally got around to moving my domain to use google apps for your domain. So far I like it, but migrating from 2 years of Gmail use has been tough. I haven't moved much email yet, though I'm pretty sure that a temporary upgrade to a pro account ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/09/moving-gmail-calendar-to-google-apps-for-your-domain-calendar/ So I just got back from watching Wanted... I'm not going to say I didn't like it, because I did. It just left me feeling a little awkward. I think this quote describes how I felt walking out of there, "It was like a reach around, then I turned around ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/08/wanted-more/ Tonight was one of the most frustrating games of indoor cricket I've played in a long time. It was the first time we have played at North Wollongong in our 4 seasons in the comp, and I never want to play there again. Every week we hear teams complain about ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/05/liar-liar-pants-on-fire/ 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 ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/03/lyrical-twitter-bot/ 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 ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/03/moving-your-active-utorrent-torrents-between-computers/ 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, ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/03/doin-lines/ 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 ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/03/the-big-facebook-fail/ 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 ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/03/keytool-javasecuritycertcertificateparsingexception-signed-overrun-bytes-139/ 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 ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/03/java-rmi-client-authentication/ 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 ... http://oldmatebrendo.com/blog/2008/03/an-octopus-never-forgets-highlights-of-mor0nbah/