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MMS/tethering on iPhone 2G (3.1.2)

Finally. After what seems like a ridiculous amount of futzing around, MMS & tethering working on an iPhone 2G.

If you’ve already attempted to get this working by screwing around with your phone, your best bet is to do a clean restore to 3.1.2. You should already know how to do this using pwnage tool. It’s really really [...]

DohSimpsons.com launched

Wherein Afshin and I attempt to watch and review every episode of The Simpsons. Wish us luck. And buy something damnit!
http://dohsimpsons.com/

Ruby Tuesday Volume 1

Quick Ruby tip. Shame on me for not knowing this but in irb
>>>_
That’s the underscore character, is always equal to the last expression that was evaluated. Thanks @sd.

Android MapView Permissions and Prerequisites

Apparently you need the:
<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION”></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION”></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET”></uses-permission>
in your manifest file. Wasted a day on that INTERNET one! I swear it was working yesterday without it, but today I was just getting a blank map grid.
Other gotchas about MapViews:

In the manifest file, those <uses-permissions> elements should come before your <application> element
In order to define a MapView [...]

Abbreviated Summary of All Joel Spolsky Articles

I worked at Microsoft
I worked at Juno
I learned stuff about software
Buy my software

Up Yours, Reddit

I might stop by from time to time to see what’s going on, but I’m out. This is just total bullshit.

Hello Guitar N00bs!

Hello Guitar N00bs!

Finally something to get me over the end of ze frank’s the show.

Nostrovia!

(15:15:00) ksenia: Your name is almost the same in Russian as it is in English.(15:15:07) ksenia: But it’s not really used in Russian that often.(15:19:42) zack: Zachary? or Zack?(15:19:49) ksenia: Zachary.(15:19:57) ksenia: I’m actually not sure how that would be abbreviated.(15:20:05) ksenia: I’ve never met one in Russia.(15:21:31) zack: in soviet Russia, Zack meets you.

Scott Ian Sucks at Guitar Hero

“It’s not fair, I play rhythm.” He eventually gets the hang of it.

Blogger Hates Us

Zack has been making incremental updates for a while – I’ve been busy getting traumatized by graduate school. I did notice, though, that some of my feeds had stopped working. Eventually, Zack and I traced the problem to Blogger’s new (unBeta’d) version. Apparently, the querystring variable we’ve been adding to avoid caching [...]

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