Elijah Grey

Props to This is Fucking Awesome!, for being well, awesome.  It’s sorta like Twitter but you get a user.isfuckingaweso.me (and eventually a user@isfuckingaweso.me) address that you can put links to your various social network accounts and even Skype. I’m going to beta test some stuff (ie the IFA email addresses) for Greg Melton, the owner of IFA. I like being an original beta tester for websites and it normally ends up with me getting some future “premium” thing for free. For example, I was the first beta tester for Podcaster.fm, the iPhone webapp and reported a few bugs and from now on I get Podcaster (the native app) licences for free for any iPhones I need to use it on.

I previously made two rot13 DejaVu fonts (Rot13 DejaVu Sans and Rot13 DejaVu Serif) so I thought I might as well make fonts for the other less-widely used rot_n ciphers. When I say “DejaVu” I mean it is based on the public domain DejaVu fonts. These are by no way official DejaVu fonts. I claim no copyright on these fonts because all I did was rearrange glyphs from the DejaVu fonts, which is nothing compared to the work put into the official fonts themselves. As with all the rot_n ciphers, encoding them twice (ie. using the rot47 font to view rot47 encoded text) will result in the unciphered text. It’s a cipher that decodes what it encodes by doing the same rotations. The example pages require a modern browser that supports webfonts, such as Firefox 3.1 beta or Safari 3.1.2.

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In Microsoft Windows®, you can associate file extensions with programs so they are opened by those programs by default. When you try to open a file without a file extension (most likely a text file made in a linux OS), you are prompted with the dialog to select a program to open the file but the checkbox to make the program you select always open files with the (non-existant) file extension of the current file is disabled. It is still possible to associate all files without file extensions with a program in Windows.

I have made batch files that allow you to set and remove program association on files without file extensions. I have also made two predone batch files for two programs Windows users are very likely to use to open files without file extensions. In the list of batch files after this, you may to check the files out and see that they are safe and will not damage your computer by clicking the “view source” link.
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The Joy of Tech comic just made a “Where your Apple Tax Goes” comic and it seems to explain how a $1000 laptop becomes $2000 when it’s made by Apple. This is the reason I don’t have a Mac though I do want to use OSX on my main laptop. I wish Apple wasn’t so evil in it’s ways of blocking any computer but a Mac to have OSX on it. I think OSX would be a good operating system if it wasn’t locked down by Apple.

Just a few minutes ago I backed up every bit of my blog and tried upgrading my WordPress version from 2.6.3 to 2.7 beta 1. I was lucky I did backup all of this blog. When I upgraded it, nothing changed and most of the wp-admin pages wouldn’t work anyways. The editor interface wasn’t updated (cleared gears cache and browser cache) and I saw no ajaxy goodness promised by the 2.7 beta 1 update. I have reverted back to 2.6.3 and will be waiting for the final non-beta release of 2.7 before I try again.

I have made a php script that makes linking to email addresses through http: links but in the exact same format as mailto: links possible. You can test it out by going to http://mail-noreply@mailto.eligrey.com?subject=Hello World! (IE users: click here after reading paragraph below). If you took away the double slashes (which would still work) and replaced http with mailto, the link would work as a mailto link. You may be asked if you would like to log on with the username ‘mail-noreply’. Click OK if you see this. One reason for doing this is that most spambots can’t handle HTTP authentication.

IE users: IE doesn’t support username:password@host URIs so you need to go to the normal URI without everything before the @ sign. You will get prompted to type in a username (ignore password), type in the username in the email address you want to email.
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I just changed my WordPress theme to Elegant Grunge. The theme adds an “Elegant Grundge” submenu to the WordPress Design menu. In this menu, you can change the copyright message (I changed it to Attribution + Noncommercial (cc) 2008 Elijah Grey). It also has a setting to add tags to fhe header, which I added OpenID tags to associate my elijah.grey.name OpenID with this site. All of this could be done by editing the php files, but it just seems much cleaner though a settings menu.

Contrary to a previous post of mine, I have finally set up Google Apps on EliGrey.com and Sephr.net. Since I had made SephrNET, I felt like I had too many email addresses all forwarding to a gmail account. So I set up Google Apps for EliGrey.com and made Sephr.net an alias. Both domains go to the same SephrNET inboxes now and without forwarding.