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Today

6:15pm JST Wednesday 16 July 2008 (day 13993)

Woke up pretty late today cause I had been talkin' to Natalia until 2am-ish, but still got my reiki and antakharana (sp) stuff done, but not neti.

At work now and spent a good deal of time squarshin' a bug that would happen the first time some code was run, but not the second time. Each registration (iteration of bug creation and detection) took a bit because it involved validating two email addresses per registration: a pc address and a mobile phone address. The PC addresses were easy enough to verify, but the mobile phones took the time: Each mobile phone has a unique serial number (at least in Japan) which is sent as part of its useragent when browsing the web. We keep a list of those unique serial numbers to make sure only one phone is used per user.

So, right there meant I could only use my phone a single time (or keep deleting the entry from the DB, but this kinda sneaky behind-the-scenes hack wouldn't allow proper debugging; that could be affecting the outcome). So I installed an add-on for Firefox to allow emulation of different browsers, and told the add-on I was Docomo somethin' something serial number.

That worked once, and then for the next iteration, it would take several mouse clicks deep into menus to adjust the serial number of my faux useragent, and then mouse clicks to select that agent to emulate so I could do it again.

Anyway, finally determined that the bug had to do with the DB entry not yet being filled in the first time, so a value wasn't being returned. But on the next run, the DB entry had been filled in so the value existed. anyway, I found the bug and informed Andrew that he needed to change his copy of the code as well. His fix was a bit different than mine, and at first I liked my fix better, but then I just put in both fixes.

He said the bug was there cause the code hadn't been fully tested, and has never been put on a production system with users.

About to zip outta here and meet Ami at Softbank (actually 109 cause she wasn't sure which Softbank I mean in Shibuya (there's only 1 huge one, but she couldn't tell their relative sizes by looking at a list of addresses online. I imagine every little nook-store that sells Softbank has its address on that list). . . . Anyway she's been having issues getting her iPhone set up with a softbank email address, so in the likely case that I'm not able to help her (it's all gonna be in Japanese and therefore more frustration for me than its worth), I suggested we have the cats of Softbank hook it up.

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LATE Wednesday 16 July 2008

Dang. I've been goofin' around on Friends For Sale, watching the clock slowly tick by.. Now it's already 3:21am tomorrow!!