Archive for the 'Misc' Category

Lots Of Nothing

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

The thing about blogging, is that when really nothing particularly interesting is happening to you, you have nothing particularly interesting to blog. I mean, yes, my work is interesting. But I don’t really want to talk about that, and anyway most of it is confidential. So pretty much the only thing I’ve been doing at […]

Glassfish V3 … the Port is NOT in use!

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

If you’re trying to start Glassfish (any version) and it complains that it can not start the server or create a domain because the port is in use, don’t check the port, check your hosts file. Glassfish gives this error if the hostname does not resolve (including for localhost). Or maybe it’s really in use […]

False Morality is Immorality

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Wanting a thing to be true does not make it true. We all know this innately, we know it even in the depths of self-delusion. Tell it to anyone and they will agree with you, because nobody wants to be thought of as insane. So, it always amazes me when I have a discussion with […]