Apple has an official knowledgebase article describing how to inject self-signed SSL certificates into your X509Anchors keychain so Mail.app and Safari.app will stop complaining when establishing a connection for the first time. I’ve been doing this by hand for quite a while, but Apple’s method is much easier.
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Is that all you got?
Quite a few years ago, when I was living in the Mission Hill combat zone just outside of Boston, I was a Full Body Cast member of the Cambridge Rocky Horror Picture Show. In and of itself, that fact should have classified me as a pervert, but I had the distinct honor of meeting someone who far surpassed my own perversions while walking to a cast party one crisp October evening in the Fall of 1994.A few blocks from Harvard Square, I ran into a rather intoxicated transvestite. Or, more accurately, he ran into me. After exchanging pleasantries and listening to a highly amusing diatribe about UFOs and gender inversion rays, my newfound friend lifted up his skirt to demonstrate how he was forced to tuck his penis between his legs to emulate his previous feminine heritage now that he’d been turned into a man.
Without skipping a beat, the friend I was walking with blurted out, “so, are you a Eunuch, or is it just cold out here?”
Unfortunately, her wit was lost in the moment, for it was quite cold outside. We simply received a blank stare and an awkward silence followed by accusations of being “one of them.” A few moments later, the tucked wonder slipped off into the night, never to be seen again.
I really wish I hadn’t been reminded of this memory…
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Too smart for your own good
That’s the problem with being a systems administrator or engineer. You always tackle the most obscure complex problems before checking for the blinding flash of the obvious.
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Rebels are popping up like weeds!
In the few short months since my purchase of a Canon EOS Digital Rebel, I’ve noticed that they’re popping up everywhere! I’ve seen them around at various events, but I counted about two dozen of them in use at the Boston BMW CCA Ice Race that took place on Sunday. Not only were spectators and professional photographers running around the course with them snapping photos, but competitors have started mounting them in and on their vehicles.It appears that the sub-thousand dollar price tag and EOS lens compatibility has officially turned the Digital Rebel into the camera to own. Digital cameras have been around for years, but this past weekend was the first time I’ve ever seen such a high concentration of the exact same model being used by so many people! The coolest thing about it was that most of the photographers weren’t using the factory lens, which further proved that many of them probably already had existing EOS glass in their collection!
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Janet Jackson’s Nipple
The talk all around the world right now is Janet exposing her breast at the Super Bowl. After some digging through Google and AP News Photos, I finally found a detailed image of the incident! Here, in all of her glory, is Janet Jackson’s breast!Personally, I’m not all that impressed. Not only is she totally flat chested, but she needs a shave! And man, she’s getting as white as her brother, Michael! I guess some people are easily excited. If I wanted to see a hairy white chick exposing her nipple and showing off a golden nipple ring, I’d check out the carnival the next time it comes to town. At least then I’d know what I was getting into…
Perhaps, if I’m really lucky, I can track down some video!
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So how about that halftime show?
I absolutely refuse to mention anything about the cheesy “shocking” publicity stunt that pissed off CBS. It was an accident…honest! Yeah, whatever.
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Complete MySQL
Thanks to an article at MacDevCenter.com, I found that Server Logistics offers a Mac OS X installation of MySQL. As of this writing, the Server Logistics distribution is 4.0.15 and the latest version is 4.0.17, but so be it. Two minor versions behind is perfectly adequate for a desktop installation.
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OffBrainWiki
I’ve always been partial to the term Off Brain Storage. I more or less pulled the term out of my ass one day to describe exactly what I needed…a reliable means to keep track of miscellaneous attention deficit inert ramblings that I would find useful in the future. Although this blog has helped out with creating a searchable database of random information, there’s quite a bit of stuff that I need to store that’s just not appropriate for public consumption. Information wants to be free and all that jazz, but there are some aspects of my life that I’d rather keep private.
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Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
The Raven is, by far, one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most quoted and parodied works. Although I’ve heard the poem read many times in various forms, I actually sat down and read it for the first time on my own last night.
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Kris is trying to figure out trackbacks…
It seems that Kris is still trying to figure out trackbacks. Maybe this will rattle his brain.