Sometimes, when I connect using my T-Mobile USB stick, I can't get Safari or other apps to recognize the Internet connection. I believe this happens with apps that had previously connected to the Net using another interface (e.g., WiFi/en1).

The way I get it to work is to try to load a page in Safari. As it's trying, I disconnect the T-Mobile connection. Then, I reconnect.

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After running through a lot of merges last night (I was incrementally going through several changesets to see where I'd introduced an interesting regression) and updating to the HEAD revision and fixing the bug, I got the following error message while trying to commit:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Your file or directory 'paypal.py' is probably out-of-date
svn: The version resource does not correspond to the resource within the transaction.  Either the requested version resource is out of date (needs to be updated), or the requested version resource is newer than the transaction root (restart the commit).

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I ran into a sneaky little bug when working locally with the Google App Engine Development Web Server and using the Mail API: sending email begins to fail if you change the source code of the class or module that contains the Mail API calls.

The actual error you get is: SystemErrorParent module 'email' not loaded.
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I use Bad Behavior and Akismet on this blog to control spam and, while the solution works splendidly, it isn't without the occasional hiccup.

Yesterday, Corban Baxter alerted me that he couldn't digg my startling exposé of Apple's upcoming flying MacBook Pros (thanks, Corban!). Googling around this morning, I found that the problem was being caused by Bad Behavior, not Wordpress. Or, more specifically, according to the author of Bad Behavior, it is a problem with Digg's crawler.

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