Year: 2009

The Order of the Blue Polo

I just got my blue polo from the OpenNMS guys, and had to write a quick post on the certificate included in the package. It says:

Certificate of Merit
Let this Certify that
Michael Shuler
has demonstrated outstanding judgment in becoming a member of
The Order of the Blue Polo

What can we say? Although “bestest” isn’t a word, it should be, cause that’s what you are: The Bestest. You have all the intelligence of those people on Star Trek with the big foreheads, but you have really cool, normal foreheads. People Magazine won’t run your picture because they are afraid of making the models mad. Thank you so much for talking about OpenNMS until you are blue in the face. You are the reason we exist.

OpenNMS
Tarus Balog, Project Maintainer

Blackberry Event Log

Just found this via a http://forums.crackberry.com/ while attempting to troubleshoot some issues I’m having with MMS message retrieval, as well as send errors on my new Curve 8310 – google the common error “Could not retrieve message content. Try again later.” (lots of possible config options to try, and none are working for me, yet). Being a sysadmin, I wanted to know where the heck is the log of why you couldn’t xyz.. Here it is:

Press and hold the ALT key. While holding down ALT, type ‘lglg‘ – that’s lowercase el-gee-el-gee. Start digging through the logs – there’s an option to enable INFO and DEBUG level logging, too 🙂

(I am seeing a good number of DNS failures upon attempts to retrieve messages and trying to send to valid addresses with strong signal, AT&T..)

National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day

April 2nd is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, not to be confused with National Peanut Butter Day, which is January 24th. The origin of this holiday is unclear, but the earliest internet mention of the event is on the Smucker’s website from 2002. Based on the company’s copious production of both peanut butter and jelly, it is possible that the Smucker’s company itself invented the holiday.