stuff

I know that the general response to the question about using JQuery selectors for node ids that have spaces in them is to not have spaces in ids.  According to the HTML specification, spaces are not allowed.

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

I've been tracking down a problem when trying to use gmail's smtp server for relaying.

We are using debian and post fix.

Errors like the following appear:

certificate verification failed for smtp.gmail.com[74.125.47.109]:587: untrusted issuer /C=ZA/ST=Western Cape/L=Cape Town/O=Thawte Consulting cc/OU=Certification Services Division/CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/emailAddress=premium-server@thawte.com

warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found

The fix on debian:

We are planning a tour of Germany this summer and will be trying to plan the trip using the Zingzam tools. Below is the initial plan of our route around germany. There will be a lot more stops to add.

Over at yes human testing, they are trying to get people to test consumer products.  Head over there to recommend a product to be tested.

I'm migrating my site over to ZingZam.  A free service offered by Fife Communities.  Lets see if it has more features than orablog!

Below is the menu of a recent dinner party that we had on 2nd January.  I thought it would be nice to record the event as I'll never remember the wines or the order that we had them.

Mousse de canard with sauternes jelly served on crostini

Duc de Sauternes - 2003

British Airways is in its final steps of becoming a budget airline at national carrier prices.  

British Airways sets seat charges

I am in the process of moving my blog/site over to Fife Communities Apollo platform. I expect it to look worse than normal during the transition.

With time I hope to add more features and feeds. This may help me update and add articles and other ramblings more often.

This could spell the end of orablog.

I have recently written a blog post over at Fife Community on cricket meets Twitter. Cross posting here for completeness.

Another one of those "why is this thing not working in Debian!" problem.

The answer is:

apt-get install ant-optional

Why or why is ant not fully installed with the ant package?

Urgh!