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.

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 {} &

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.

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.

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.

I found App-perlbrew the other day and have been using it and so far it seems pretty compilable to rvm.

Installing a local copy of Perl is as easy as

$ perlbrew install perl-5.12.2

You can then list your installed versions of perl with

$ perlbrew list
perl-5.12.2
* /usr/bin/perl
$

One thing that bugged me was it didn’t tell me the version of Perl /usr/bin/perl was. The nice thing about open source is the ability to modify it to do what you want, which is exactly what I did.

First using -vmargs settings:
eclipse -clean -showlocation -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx900m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Duser.name="Your full name"

The other one is just by  changing the associated templates in Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Templates -> @author , hardcoding the author’s name.

I’ve seen  some of my friends level really quickly and don’t have time to sit around and play the game all day so I figured it would be an interesting challange to write a bot to play the game for me. In the past I’ve used SCAR Divi in the past to write a bot for Puzzle Pirates so I think I try writing a bot for Farmville and post the results and possible the code.

It seems that the problem had something to do with a ‘#’ in either ‘#AppName_Prefix.pch’ or ‘#AppName.xcodeproj’. I renamed the Prefix header and the xcodeproject file and updated the project to reflect the new name of the prefix header then a build -> clean and voilà everything seems to be working again.

I’ve been using that script for a few months now and have added alot to it and think I should give back. I’ve packaged it up with a nice readme, posted it up on github and released it under the GPL.

Usage:

usage: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim [ <app_name> | updateLinks <link_dir> [ Preferences | Documents | <cmd> <file> ]
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim updateLinks ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Creats symlinks for all installed apps in ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Note: <link_dir> must already exist.
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim SomeApp Preferences
Opens the Preferences folder
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim SomeApp Documents
Opens the Documents folder
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim SomeApp sqlite3 some_sqlite_database.sqlite
Opens runs sqlite3 with the full path to some_sqlite_database.sqlite as its first arguement

The README:

Opensim is a shell script that makes accessing applications on the iPhone
simulator a breeze.

Based on opensim by Craig Hockenberry

http://furbo.org/2009/03/03/open-sesame/

Examples.

opensim SomeApp Preferences
Opens the Preferences folder for SomeApp.
( ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Applications/<GUID>/SomeApp.app/Preferences )

opensim SomeApp Documents
Opens the Documents folder for SomeApp
( ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Applications/<GUID>/SomeApp.app/Documents )

opensim SomeApp sqlite3 some_sqlite_database.sqlite
Opens runs sqlite3 with the full path to some_sqlite_database.sqlite as its
first argument.
( sqlite3 ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone
Simulator/User/Applications/<GUID>/SomeApp.app/Documents/some_sqlite_database.sqlite )

Note:
If you have more than one file with the same name in two different
directories, ie db.sqlite in Documents/ and db.sqlite in SomeApp.app/
you would need to specify it by doing something like:
opensim SomeApp sqlite3 app/db.sqlite
This would open SomeApp.app/db.sqlite
opensim SomeApp sqlite3 Documents/db.sqlite
This would open SomeApp.app/Documents/db.sqlite

opensim updateLinks ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Creats symlinks for all installed apps in ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Note: <link_dir> must already exist.