Restrictions on domain names used with Google Apps

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May 152011

I’ve been wanting to move stupidfoot.com to Google Apps for a while now but never really had the time to do it. Tonight I decided to spend the 20 minutes or so it would take to create the account and move the MX record and load my old mail via IMAP.

It turns out that Google has some restrictions on domain names that they will allow to be used with Google Apps. This list was taken from their signup restrictions page.

  • Domain availability in our system
  • Inappropriate domain names (offensive, false branding, etc.)
  • Restricted locations
  • Number of domains that you have already registered (this is meant to prevent abuse of our system)
  • Involvement in IT decisions for your organization

It seems stupidfoot.com falls into one of those categories, I’m guessing the one that I’ve bolded. I took a guess that Google doesn’t like the word stupid. A quick search for google apps restrictions domain name stupid shows that my guess was correct. I’m not the first person to have a problem with Google’s seemingly arbitrary domain name filtering.  This guy has run into the same problem I did but unlike me he had a friend at Google to get in touch with to help him out.

I’m hoping someone from Google stumbles across this and will get in touch with me and help me work this out. I plan on mashing buttons on the Google Apps site with hopes of finding a contact form that will allow me to get in touch with Google and have an exception made for stupidfoot.com.

Posted by Theodore at 12:42 am

Easy access to the HTML Devel::Cover report from Dist::Zilla::App::Command::cover

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Apr 272011

I love me some Dist::Zilla and Dist::Zilla::App::Command::cover. I wanted an easy way to load the Devel::Cover HTML coverage report. I’ve been using this on my Macbook.

dzil cover | grep ‘coverage.html’ | awk {‘print $5′}  | xargs open

and this on Ubuntu.

dzil cover | grep ‘coverage.html’ | awk {‘print $5′}  | xargs -I{} firefox {} &

Posted by Theodore at 12:25 am Tagged with: , ,

Kindle, usbNetwork and You

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Apr 252011

My Kindle shipped with firmware 3.0.2. I wanted to upgrade to 3.1 to get real page numbers. When I got the Kindle I jailbroke it, installed usbNetwork and the screensaver hack.

Every time I tried to upgrade the firmware it would fail. After some searching I found that the firmware updates ship with differential updates. If any of the core files are modified the update will fail in order to prevent mucking something up.

An easy way to figure out what file is causing the upgrade to fail is:

;debugOn
;dumpMessages

You can then search through the file created on the Kindle for the file with a checksum failure.

In my case /etc/sysconfig/iptables was modified. Someone posted a stock copy of the file, once I removed the the single line that was different in mine the update applied without issue.

Posted by Theodore at 11:07 pm

pythonbrew, perlbrew minus Perl plus Python

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Nov 292010

Recently I wrote about App-perlbrew and wondered if something similar existed for Python. A friend of my showed me pythonbrew. Pythonbrew seems to be directly inspired by perlbrew, it has a very similar command structure and syntax.

Both pythonbrew and perlbrew have a predefined list of supported versions of Python and Perl respectively. It is my personal opinion that this isn’t a good thing. Both Python and Perl list their released versions on their sites and it would be trivial to parse that information. I have a patch for perlbrew that does just that. I have started working on one for pythonbrew today and hope to have it finished and tested in a few days. I should probably send a pull request for the perlbrew patch as it doesn’t do anyone much good sitting in my repository.

Posted by Theodore at 1:25 am Tagged with: ,

It’s a boy!

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Nov 202010

My wife and I are expecting our second child in April. We went for  level 2 ultrasound Thursday because I was born with a clubbed foot and we wanted to make sure everything was ok with the baby.

One really Nice thing about a level 2 ultra sound is you get to find out the sex of the baby before you normally would. After a long and annoying wait at the doctor’s office because there was a scheduling mix-up we were taken to talk to the genetic counselor. We give out all of our family medical history and she makes some notes and tells us that we are at more or less no more risk than anyone else to have a child with a clubbed foot. Yay!

Next up, the ultra sound. We are eventually taken back and they start doing the ultra sound and take measurements of the baby’s head, arms, guts and pretty much every other part of the baby. We asked the lady doing the ultrasound to not tell us the sex until we could bring the rest of our family into the room. The were in the waiting room while the actual important-for-the-baby part of the ultrasound was done.

They come into the room and the ultrasound tech zeros in on the baby’s junk and announces that it is a boy. There are hugs, kisses and congratulations going around.

I’m still in shock. I know how to deal with a girls. I’m good at being a dad to Grace, now I have start at zero again. I’m excited.

Scanned Image-13

Posted by Theodore at 9:43 pm Tagged with: , , , ,
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