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.

Roxane’s torus fracture

torus fracture

torus fracture


Yesterday, Roxane and I went roller skating at Ethan’s birthday party, and near the end of the afternoon, Roxane fell. She cried for a few minutes longer than her typical, “I got hurt.. I’m OK.” Roxane and I debated on whether she needed or wanted to see a doc, but we decided to go to have someone take a look. Turns out that she does have a mild torus fracture of her radius, which is a compression of the bone without a clean break line (I drew an arrow on the x-ray). Roxie is currently in a splint and ace bandage, but might get a cast in a day or two. She is not in pain, slept fine last night, but we still need to go see an orthopedic doc.
I love you, Roxane!

s/testing/stable/

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” has been released as “stable”. Congratulations and thank you for all the hard work, Debian release team, Debian CD team, Debian Developers, and all Debian contributors!

mshuler@kokopelli:~$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 700 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages
     release v=None,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free
     origin security.debian.org
 700 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
     release v=None,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib
     origin security.debian.org
 700 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
     release v=None,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=main
     origin security.debian.org
 700 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian,c=non-free
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
 700 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian,c=contrib
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
 700 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian,c=main
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
Pinned packages:
mshuler@kokopelli:~$ sudo apt-get update -q2
mshuler@kokopelli:~$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 900 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free
     origin security.debian.org
 900 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib
     origin security.debian.org
 900 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=main
     origin security.debian.org
 900 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=non-free
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
 900 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=contrib
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
 900 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main
     origin ftp.us.debian.org
Pinned packages:
mshuler@kokopelli:~$