openvpn certificate not yet valid

9 September 2010

If you get this error after generating self-signed certs, the issue is that they are signed in UTC but the validity is checked in localtime. Setting the clock on my router to UTC fixed this issue; you’ll see other people waited until the GMT offset had passed (“it just started working”).

Hopefully this note saves other people some trouble.


It’s the mindset, not the tools

9 September 2010

Man disarmed, apparently shot with own gun. Guns are not talismans to ward off ill-doing; they are tools. Survival is a mindset.


Google apps and accounts

9 September 2010

If you use google to host your private email on a vanity domain, the first account you create as an administrator of that domain will not be a google account by default. All of the accounts you create in your vanity domain will be full-fledged google accounts; the trouble comes when you try to add your administrator account to adwords and analytics. You’ll get a confusing error saying your password is wrong; what it really means is you need to sign up for a google account for your google account.

tl;dr: yo dawg, I heard you liked google accounts so I created a google account for your google account so you could google when you google.


Favorite Photo Mule photo (so far)

7 September 2010

This shot is exactly what I had in mind for Photo Mule: helicopter lands on the street, guy took a picture (flickr says “moments ago”), and it’s up on flickr in seconds. If he had a Flickr Pro account, it might show a map.


Alternate uses for a rifle silencer

7 September 2010

Lighting smokes and cooking bacon.

I am so cooking bacon on my rifle at the next shoot. Lyle and I always wanted to build a coffee maker for one… maybe in a couple years.


On AdMob

6 September 2010

total click fraud ad income from AdMob? In about a week of being on the market, thirty seven cents. There may be value in mobile ads, but AdMob isn’t it; when I’m flipping through the inventory testing a new build of Photo Mule, it’s all “She’s 1.9 miles away!” and “Jesus loves you!”. I’m almost certain 100% of the thirty seven cents in our AdMob account comes from my morbid curiosity driving a click through a banner ad during testing.


I bet he gets the patent

6 September 2010

Oh, come on, Google

5 September 2010

so close, yet, so far. It seems to pull up any POI which has been co-mentions with the Boomershoot, but not the shoot, itself. Bing maps is 100% fail; doesn’t find anything.


Arcade Fire’s HTML5 demo

5 September 2010

it works well for my kid’s address; not so well for my former home address (it shows up about a block off). Regardless, enjoy. Requires modern HTML5 browser (Google Chrome). Works best for urban addresses.


This wouldn’t fly in the US

4 September 2010

I mean, really, fuck everything about this.