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I’ve been using Bluetooth with my Nokia phone seamlessly for the last 8 months when all of a sudden things sort of stopped working. I say “sort of” because some things worked, like sending files to the phone from the Mac using Bluetooth File Exchange, and the iSync stuff worked fine, but I could not send things from my phone to my Mac.

Some quick searching came across what sounded like the same problem Broken Bluetooth Mac OS X 10.4.4, and a small mention on a MacInTouch 10.4.4 page: “Since upgrading to 10.4.4 on my dual 2.0 G5, my Bluetooth no longer communicates with any of my devices.”

I tried re-establishing the connection between the phone and the Mac, and that didn’t work, I tried standing on my head while pressing “Send” and that didn’t work, and I then tried chaning a bunch of settings in my Bluetooth Preference Pane, and that sort of worked!

I’ll need to do more tests, but it seems like if I open the Bluetooth Preference Pane, and click around between the ‘Settings’, ‘Devices’, and ‘Sharing’ tabs while I hit “Send” on the phone, it will work, and files will transfer. I’ve done this a few times now, and I’m hoping it’s not just coincidence.

I’ve not yet installed the 10.4.5 update, (Apple, when you will stop requiring a reboot for these updates!?) but that might fix the problem. We’ll see…

Since I’ll be using the Java and the JSP, I’ll be needed Tomcat for the Mac OS X.

The simplest way to do so seems to be by getting Server Logistic’s Complete Tomcat 4.1.24 package. And yes, it’s okay that it’s Tomcat 4.x and not 5.x since that what I need to use…

Onward and upward to The World of Java!

I love watching the Olympics, and I know I’ll get in trouble for this… but I love watching people wreck.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want anyone to get hurt, but seeing people wipe out can be quite spectacular. The “Ooooh! That’s gotta hurt!” responses and all that. Pure Gold!

I blame television for this, more specifically, ABC’s Wide World of Sports. As a child I remember seeing Vinko Bogataj wipe out week after week to the phrase “…the agony of defeat…” While it’s amazing to see athletes do the things they’ve trained to do, and do them spectacularly, it can be even more amazing to see something happen that no one ever expected to happen. Um… spectacularly!

I’d be the first in line to order a DVD titled “Blooplympics: Wipe-outs, Crashes, and Wrecks from the 2006 Olympic Games” or something like that… Maybe they’ll show a blooper reel at the end…

Simon posted some great notes from the Future of Web Apps Summit, which are a must read for people interested in building web applications the right way.

The comments also mention more notes at Adactio and mp3 files (what, no enclosures?) at SteveC’s blog.

I am once again trying Eclipse, mainly for dealing with Java code. I’ve never been a big fan of IDE‘s , choosing instead to live by the “unix way” of stitching together small specific tools into a chain that works how I want it to. jEdit has been my text editor of choice for years now. Yes, I’m one of those people who lives in their editor, and had customized it, and tweaked it, and made it mine to the point that I’m not about to give it up. Still, I’ll see what the Eclipse has to offer…