Tracy's photoblog is one of my favourites, so upon reading her interview I decided to take her challenge
and posted my first self portrait. I toyed with a couple of ideas, and finally I decided on trying to work with the problem with people closing their eyes when the moment I take a picture. Serious blinking brought me this photo

The BBC is reporting that a European moon-probe has arrived in orbit around the moon. They also describe the propulsion system and theories of the moon's formation.

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CNN reports that a new Band Aid is being formed. Whee!

I'm making an XMLRPC server in Python that I need to access from a Java Servlet. But the default security manager is picky about allowing SSL certificates it does not trust (if you were in doubt: this is a good thing! ). The solution (based on this site was:

openssl x509 -in server.crt -out server.crt.der -outform der
keytool -keystore $JAVAHOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -alias pySSL -import -file server.crt.der