I've got an odd problem. I create a 4 GB VM in the Rackspace Cloud with an Ubuntu 11.04 server image. After it's created, I can't ssh to it, and ping returns zero bytes. I can get to it from the Rackspace dashboard console. But it's not on the network. Creating a VM without a network is kind of … Continue reading Rackspace Ubuntu 11.04 servers broken without a network
Approving new Twitter followers from an iPhone
I protected my tweets on Twitter. When you protect your tweets, you have to approve any new follower request. This is easy if you use a desktop or laptop browser. But if you use a Twitter client application, or a mobile browser on Android or iPhone, you can't approve new followers. In fact, you won't … Continue reading Approving new Twitter followers from an iPhone
Integrity is all There is
Personal and professional integrity matter. They're the most important gifts you can give yourself. I'm reminded of this by an article I read today about a firm. I know a lot about this particular company. The article was, essentially, a marketing puff-piece, the kind of thing you read in a rag like the Puget Sound … Continue reading Integrity is all There is
Max is gone
We said goodbye to Max today. I thought I'd be able to go in to work afterward, but I had to take a PTO day. The rest of the week will be WIPO application importing and parsing, and entity naming heuristics. Today I didn't want to deal with any of it.
Bad dependencies
Pro tip: When you rely on Fabric to provision your servers, and your fabfile installs packages from the Cheeseshop, and package D (which you specify) depends on package C, and the Cheeseshop's dependency rule is wrong, and it causes the wrong version of package C to be downloaded and installed, and the version number it should … Continue reading Bad dependencies
Life
We still haven't upgraded our iPhone 3GS to a 4S. We're now less then two months until the end of that phone's contract, so I'll take another run at them this week. This week, I suddenly got a hankering to dive into GNU Emacs customization. Every 10 years I go berserk with it, like a … Continue reading Life
Life
What's shaking down on the farm... Whilst dealing with many interruptions, the PCT/IPC improvements to my company's product are nearly ready to go live. Sometime this week, we'll start storing international patents in our datastore, with fully hooked-up classifications. It'll be flippin' neat-o! With the back-end (importing, deciphering, parsing, storing) improvements done, next comes the … Continue reading Life
Long time no post
I've been remiss. I can hear your wailing and gnashing of teeth from here. Lots going on in my personal and work lives. Lots of fun at work. My current task is parsing XML International Patent Classification (IPC) data. Oodles of goodness. More later!
Product unveiling, redux
Our product was unveiled. On the day of the PR release, the company website got fewer hits than this blog gets on a so-so day. Um...
Product unveiling
My company's near to unwrapping its product. Alas, the new corporate website needs more work, so the unwrapping is delayed. I want to brag. But can't yet. Back to work...
Seek Nuance 