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iPhone Update and Self Signed Certificates
I updated my iPhone today to the latest firmware and found that I couldn't check email. I remember reading something in the release notes about man in the middle attacks. So, I tracked down the issue to a self-signed SSL certificate I use on my mail server. Luckily, I have a real wildcard certificate for receiptwallet.com. So, I reconfigured my mail server and changed my settings to mail.receiptwallet.com and presto, things started working again. So, unless I missed a setting, self-signed certificates can't be used with the new iPhone update; I see this as a big problem for people that don't want to fork over the money for a real certificate. Oh well, I learn something new everyday.
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Government actually does work!
The other day, I blogged about getting my local city councilman to get a sidewalk we use cleared of brush/weeds. Well, today I walked the dog and saw that the sidewalk was completely cleared. That sure was fast! I guess the squeaky well does get the grease.
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Scott, the fireman
Today my wife was grilling some chicken for dinner when she yelled to me that the chicken was on fire. I walked over from my chore of planting a tree and sprayed some water on it from a squirt bottle. When that failed, I turned off the burners and sprayed more water on it. I fired up the grill after the fire was out and went back to my task. My wife then called again a few minutes later and said the grill was on fire. This time, I ran over and tried to put it out with a squirt bottle, but that was fruitless. My wife told me to get a hose to put it out (she was more put together than I was to think of what to do). I ran and got the hose which happened to have a fire hose type nozzle on it and I put out the fire by dousing the grill with water. My major concern was that if the propane tank got too hot, it could explode.
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Counting my lucky stars
Last Saturday, we left for the airport at around 5:15 am to catch a flight to Oakland (to surprise my mother-in-law for her birthday) and as we're driving down I-15, I noticed some "road hazards" (cars that were going slower than 60 mph in a 65 mph zone), so I moved over a lane to the left. Up ahead, I saw flashing yellow light and just thought it was CalTrans doing some work. As we got closer, I started seeing debris on the road and what appeared to be a burned out car in the far right lane. There were no CHP cars around or anything, except a private ambulance that had its lights on (the yellow I saw before). (I now know it was a private ambulance because it was a Type II ambulance and San Diego Fire/Resuce uses Type III ambulances. I managed to only run over a small piece of debris and we kept moving. Looking back on this, I'm surprised it didn't turn into a huge disaster. The "road hazards" I mentioned above were right on target to slam into this mess. However, I couldn't find any reference to this accident in the online versions of the San Diego Union Tribune or mentioned on any of the Web sites for the television stations.
