I recently got back from IIW, a conference in Mountain View California. On Monday on my way there, I left my keys in the plastic box at the securtiy checkpoint in Salt Lake. While on the plane I realized my mistake and promptly called the airport. They said that they had them in the lost and found and that they would put my name on them. Last night I finally got back and went to the lost and found. It was 8:00PM and the office was closed. Luckily, there was a number to call. I called the lost and found office and asked if they still had my keys.

I'm Jessie Morris, aka JAM. This was my first year at IIW and man was it a blast! I was here with Phil Windley. I actually work for him. But that's topic for another story.

IIW stands for Internet Identity Workshop. Here, people talk about, discuss and decide what the standards for identity on the internet will be. Since this is my first year, I have a lot of catching up to do. The fact that I'm only 17 years old also leaves me slightly thin in this regard. But I learned a lot.

Google Android. Some people love it, other people hate it. Some are terrified that Google's collecting their data. Either way, I think that Google's Android OS is going to overall, "succeed". Here's why:

Blogs are a serious business. They may not be a brick and mortar business, but they are a way to make money. Obviously a lot of people really want their blogs to become popular. Over the weekend Jesse, a tech blogger from here in Utah, mentioned how a lot of tech bloggers got left out in a specific meeting here. That's not what I want to talk about, however. What I want to talk about is how to promote your blog.

I went and saw a movie last night. As usual, I got there early and there were ads playing, some for other movies, some for realtors, and several for cars. The one that stuck out most to me was the Honda commercial, not because it was well done, but because of the website they put at the end.

This Saturday I'm going to be at a conference put on by Cedar Fort. The guy who created Twilight Guy is here as is Genevieve from Google, more specifically the Google Books department.

One of the reasons people say to blog is to "have a journal." This always seemed a little bit weird to me. I never really understood why people would say this. Blogs are public, and I don't exactly like people reading my journal.

Last night I finally realized what people meant.

I recently installed Bacula on our servers. It seems like a very good piece of software and seems to be working well so far. On Debian, it seems like there was one issue with passwords. Also, I was using the FQDN, but in my hosts file, I had the wrong IP, so it seemed as though my daemons weren't listening on the right ports (really it was the IP, though).

So if you ever end up having a problem where things work when you specify the IP and things work and the you use the domain name in the config and things stop working, double check your hosts file and your how your DNS resolves.

Well, I was recently looking for a working example of a working ICAP server. There were basically 2 choices, a Python implementation, and one written in C. The one written in C compiles fine and works so far as I can tell. The Python one doesn't run out of the box seeing how it was last updated about 4 years ago. Because of this, dependencies are outdated. Big time. After going through and correcting the dependency names, it would give me some errors. I wasn't in the mood for trying to figure out what was throwing errors.

Well, it seems as though there is an okay amount of interest in this Icap Server. As such, I took the one released from http://icap-server.sourceforge.net/ in 2002 and fixed the broken dependencies. It is currently running on ports 1355 and 1353 because I haven't been able to figure out how to only run it on one port.

To start up the server, navigate to the directory that you extracted the tar to (don't forget to rename the .tar_.gz to .tar.gz. Drupal automatically changed it...) and type "./start.sh"

It isn't the most stable and I'm not sure how to fix it.