Imagine the time that went in to planing and producing this shot. So serious…
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Okay so it was a few years ago 🙂 One of my father’s old karate students uploaded these old images to facebook. I snagged them and put them here. Looks like I won in Kumite and Kata. Rad!
I just wasted two days. I am working on a desktop application in JAVA. It needs to sniff web proxy settings from the Window’s registry (and some day other platform specific locations). I decided to use JNI  to do this. Everything worked like a charm in my sandbox JAVA application. I then embarked on moving it to and OSGI bundle. When I ran the thing I received a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError. WTF!! WHY!!Â
When I debugged my call to System.load(“somedll”) worked, but an exception was triggered when I invoked the native method. I then thought well maybe its and OSGI thing.  After some Google-ing I found a few write ups on how to tweak the manifest to load the system specific library.  I tried effing with the manifes eight ways from Sunday, but still no workie. I then came across a forum where someone had the same issue I did and they eventually discovered that that they had renamed their JAVA class, but did not regenerate the JNI lib.  It then dawned on me that I had refactored my JAVA class in to a new package, but did not update the generated .h file. Â
The morale of the story is if your JNI call works outside of OSGI, but then stops working when you move it in to OSGI; ask yourself “did I refactor this thing when I moved it in to a bundle?”Â
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Happy TURKEY Day!
*Image courtesy of http://home.comcast.net/~855ardmore/ascii-thanksgiving.html
Like most days I began my morning by riding Caltrain from San Francisco to Palo Alto. Â About 10 minutes in I realized that I had forgotten my train pass. Â I decided to do the “right thing” and inform the ticket attendant that of the situation. Here’s where it gets interesting. Â He advised me that speaking with him was not helping me and that I should run up 2 cars and then hop off at the next stop and purchase a ticket. Â I politely replied, “My bike is on the train. Â You are giving me a 30 second window to do something that takes at least 2 minutes.”. Â I mean even if I teleported to the machine I still have to put the money in the box and wait for the machine to spew out my ticket. Â He then told me to get off at the next stop or be written up. Â Okay so that’s when I decided to conduct an experiment. Â The max fine for not having a ticket is $250. Â I sneeze that. Â Perhaps he gets off by striking fear in the hearts of most by treating them with a fine, but not me. Â I had already decided to get off the train, but not before I tested his humanity. Â I put on a sad face (the kind that looks like I’m fighting tears back) and pleaded, “I have a wife and 2 kids at home. Â I have been unemployed for 6 months and am on my way to a big interview (monster lie). Â I was honest with you about not having a ticket. Â Please let me slide this once.”. Â He told me to “that’s too bad”. Â This whole experience left me with a few questions:
1. Â Is this really Caltrain policy? Â That is, I turned myself in. Â Is their idea of customer service advising me to sprint for the machine? Â If I was a 60 year old lady would they advise the same?
2. Â How can some people be so not nice? Â I mean why would you as a Caltrain attendant threaten to fine someone who willfully acknowledged the situation?
3. Â Am I alone or does this happen often? Â The Caltrain is used by thousands of hard working people everyday. Â Certainly a percentage of which forget their ticket. Â Do they get chucked from the train or did I just happen to catch the ticket checker when he was on his period?
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My brother Anthony sent me this. I think it illustrates just how bad the recession is/was. However I should say that this is not the first time I have heard of people “making it hail”.
Tim
Stumbling upon this video made me ask myself “did my parents get down like that?” Anyway this video is nothing new, but I think its worth bringing back for a night. Happy Friday.