To anticipate and prevent
This is one of those errors that popped up on me that initially left me baffled and amused. Once you look up and find out the explanation for “Activity has lead window”, it makes sense, but the idea of an application having “leaky windows” is still quite hilarious to me (unlike memory leaks, which suck…
As noted previously, Jon and I will be headed to Fanime this year (next month in fact). I finally got my act together earlier this month and started getting my costume and props assembled. Thus far, I have purchased 2 pairs of glasses, an original resin gun, custom made coat, pants, and gloves. So… what’s…
“I got TWO god damn blocks from my house before idiot tried to kill me.” This sums up my feelings about riding motorcycles a lot of days. I mean, I occasionally “joke” about people always being out to kill me when riding a motorcycle… but it really is true. I behave nicely when I ride…
A lot of the code I post and tech bits I fix are things I find while working. Sometimes I can’t explain the bigger picture, sometimes it simply doesn’t matter. Most people don’t care about the why, but simply the how (to fix something) like the “Cannot Save Attachment” message in Outlook 2007. But with…
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Recently, I was talking with a friend about repeated phone calls they were getting that were hangups. First thing to do in a situation like that is Google the number; you’d be surprised how often something turns up. The second thing is to try whitepages.com. In this particular case, it noted the phone number was…
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Recently I was messing around on Android with the BrowserView’s and BrowserIntent’s. When trying out one of the examples, I got: InetAddress: Unknown host www.google.com throwing UnknownHostException Every URL I entered, it displayed a “Page cannot be found” type error. At first I thought it was the site I was trying to use, but obviously…