Got this error? Here’s how to fix it when deleting and re-creating entitlements.plist DOES NOT WORK! Short version; add the values manually. I added this to my entitlements.plist and  it worked: “<key>application-identifier</key> <string>1234567890.net.darknova</string>” Long version: I hate xcode. I’ve been working with it since 2009. Dark Nova was one of the first few thousand apps [...]

There’s a lot of press out there about child vaccinations these days. Typically, the autism/vaccination link and the scandal around it is the favorite topic. As a new father I have a new interest and perspective on these things. For me Autism isn’t the issue. The issue is about how medicine works in this country. Long story [...]

Text your friends a Happy New Year message at exactly Midnight on New Year’s Eve, AUTOMATICALLY! It’s Easy: *Select Friends To SMS Text (unlimited) *Enter your Message and hit go! OMG! HNY!! will run in the background and text your friends your New Year’s Message AUTOMATICALLY at 11:59 on New Years Eve! New Year’s Countdown [...]

The forums are wild with this topic. I read a few of the posts. Interesting arguments. It’s great to see the frenzy that a rivalry brings. It’s great to see the passion of the Android community. We are porting my game, Dark Nova to Android. As a development platform, Android seems to be a great bet and [...]

Things come full circle. Here’s the game I developed, Dark Nova on a Warez board. I just found this while searching for our android code repo… a simple link on how you can download and install my game for free. My game is only 3 bucks. Yet, people are out making an effort to pirate [...]

I’ve had an iPad for over a week. I’m enjoying it. I always avoid iTunes on all of my devices. But… I had a need to sync the iPad to load some photos. iTunes was, in theory, the “easiest” way to do this. iTunes did sync the photos. But it broke my iPad in the [...]

With a lot of prodding from my buddy Scott, I broke down and bought a 16gb iPad. Part of the motivation is that we want to port Dark Nova to iPad. Also, I’m going on a trip and the idea of having something really light instead of my MBP 15 was attractive. But mainly I [...]

Dear Apple, iTunes sucks. It has always sucked. It sucks even more now that I have to use it regularly in order to use my iPhone and iPad. It has to be updated at least twice a month. It’s cumbersome and slow even on a fast machine. It’s antiquated. I hate it very much and [...]

Building the new version of Dark Nova required me to generate a lot of audio (aiff) files containing speech for varios commands and events. You can use the Mac’s built-in “say” command to do this automatically. I wrote a script to create an .aiff file for every phrase in a list of phrases. It works [...]

Get this, I was editing my theme in the theme editor, going back and forth and BOOM!!!! Database connection error. This was NOT and DB connection error. The MySQL server was fine and nothing had changed. Looking at the DB via PHPmyAdmin and no overheard or anything. Repaired tables, nothing. still dead but the data [...]

Old blog software is f’d up on new server… damn you fast-paced-technology!!!! This software is 3 years old or less… i move this site to a new server and BAM!!! gallery doesn’t work and the blog goes haywire. PHP5… sigh… the blog below is not supposed to contain high ASCII :\

This is a blast from the past man. An old blub that I wrote back in 2000 as we launched Dataverse, our startup tech consultancy. 6 years later, Dataverse is an adventure, many great memories, and a great lesson. Now from the ashes of the .bust new stars are being born once again and I’m [...]

Come check out this kickin 70′s party on Cinco De Mayo! My Friend MPX is performing and I’ll be throwing the mad visuals. See you there!!!

My response to a query from Cindy regarding my thoughts on Socialism: [12:00] shonorg: ya i guess i dont really know enough about socialism… my assumption would be that regardless of the name of the political system, it still must follow

News Flash: Your iPod, Now With Less EVIL! Winamp now has BUILT-IN support for iPod. The support was built by the same guy that wrote ml_ipod, which is now depricated. Simply put, this makes an iPod usable. It allows simple “drag and drop” style managment of ones music. And guess what? It doesn’t try to [...]

I’m sure this is well documented somewhere. But it’s just another example of how stupid Internet Explorer is and how complacent MS has been for the last 7 years. Here’s a totally unintentional yet effective DOS attack against IE. Point IE to a website with an expired SSL certificate… such as this and be prepared [...]

I’m coming out with a new line of Xtreme Dog Treats that will feature new and Xtreme flavors that based on my research, dogs truley can not resist! There will be three Xtreme flavors at launch, they are: Cat Shit Used Wadded Tissue Women’s Underwear

I’m reluctantly looking at upgrading my ancient blog software. Not only did I have to get Cindy to look up the HTML special character for the “plus” sign for my last post, but I’ve been using newer software (WordPress 2.0) for another project and I find its WYSIWYG drag and drop functionality mildy intoxicating… :\

I detected 22 Wireless Access Points while riding the K line from Embarcadero to CCSF today. Of the 22, 15 were open and 7 were using WEP. 22 is quite a few…

I wish it were legal to kill/maim harley riders. If the penalty wasn’t so high I’d sit on my balcony with a high-powered sniper rifle and take pot shots at them as they go by.. hoping to hit their gas tank with a nice explosive round. ;D I should make it into a video game… [...]