Carl Mercier's blog

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Category: Cool/funny/stupid stuff

Sometimes, being in Canada just plain sucks.

Ok.  This definitely goes in the rant category.  I got myself a shiny new iPhone 3G.  I decided to play by the rules (this time): I didn’t unlock it, I didn’t jailbreak it.  Problem is, most of the apps I want are not available here.  What gives? Just to name a few: Pandora, Loopt, AOL [...]

When Ruby goes wrong

Running the tests, 1 failure. Doesn’t look like a failure to me Investigating… 1) Failure: test_new_articles(AnnounceArticleFunctionalTest) [test/functional/announce_article_test.rb:74:in `test_new_articles' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.5.6/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:19:in `__send__' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.5.6/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:19:in `run']: <Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:50 +0000> expected but was <Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:50 +0000>.