I've apparently been tagged. Well, alright.


( Horrible Meme-age )

...Yeah. Blame Bobbi.

I use a lot of windows mobile software on my phone. Most/all of it is freeware. This is a list of what I use. What fun. I'll try to keep this updated.

• PPCPimBackup supports scheduled rotating backups of PIM info (messages, contacts, call logs, etc.)


• Haali Reader, a free book reader


• Magic Button, a 'close' button replacement/task manager


• QuickMenu, a far superior task manager and replacement start menu. The site is in Chinese, but look for the posting with 'QuickMenu' in the title..


• Palm SMS Threader, but I'm not allowed to have it


• TouchWatch, a finger-friendly countdown timer application

mood: helpful tags: software


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Ahh, one of the oldest, if not *the* oldest, memes.

Enjoy

...or, "How I know who the dirty rotten bastard is that sold my email address."

Postfix has a feature called "address extensions." What does this mean?
Suppose I have an email address, foo@example.com. Address Extensions mean that you can send email to foo+bar@example.com, and I'll receive it, but it shows 'To: foo+bar@example.com' instead of 'To: foo@example.com'.

So, what's the big deal? Well, when I register for a website, say, wesellemail.com, I can register with the address foo+wesellemail@example.com, and then when I start receiving spam addressed to foo+wesellemail@example.com, I'll know who it was that sold my email address to spammers.

The problem with this is that a lot of websites won't believe that you can have a '+' in an email address. Well, fine. I'll just make postfix use '-' as well, right?

WRONG. Postfix can only handle one address extension delimiter, and I don't want to break backwards compatibility by changing it to something that's not '+'.

This is where recipient canonical maps come into play. Basically, these maps translate recipient addresses (either on incoming or outgoing mail) according to a map file.

"But, Patrick," you say, "The nice thing about address extensions is that they're ad hoc, and you don't have to update a file every time you make up a new one! Surely canonical maps can't do that?"

To which I say, "Ah, but Postfix has regular expression maps, which support replacement with positional parameters." So, simply:

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
recipient_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/canonical

/etc/postfix/canonical:
/pdbogen-(.*)/ pdbogen+${1}


...And voila. Any mail received for pdbogen-foo is rewritten as pdbogen+foo, and all is right in the world.

I woke up at 7:30 today to drive to Austin and help my mom and stepdad serve crawfish to UT students, whose parents have too much money, living in a glorified dormitory.

I was, however, compensated well for my time, even if you take into account the four-ish hours spent driving.

And now, for the finishing of my AI final exam.

location: 2316 Franklin Drive, 77801 mood: tired

And now, I sleep.

Flash back, then, to the middle of the week, last week.
Spring break.

My laptop hard drive dies.
Mostly, anyway.
It's alive enough to copy all of my personal files and some key config files to my external hard drive...
Which then dies. To keep track of what I'd backed up, I had removed the files as I went from the original drive. The backup isn't mostly dead, or partly dead; it screeches like an angry baensidhe whenever power is applied.. There go all my photos.

Whatever.

Tuesday of this week we had the first demo for software engineering. I gave my group assignments Thursday the week before spring break, with the expectation that it'd take a day or two and then I could give them further assignment so we could get everything all ready for the demo on Tuesday.

Today is Wednesday; only one of them has done what I originally asked, and only because I'd already done most of the work for a different class.

Lunch, today; someone backed into my motorcycle and knocked it into some bushes while I was eating.

A few hours ago, I discovered that the shirt I was wearing, one of my favorites, has a rip from the cuff halfway to the elbow on one sleeves. It's not even at a seam where I could resew it.

Addendum:

Forgot one thing. Earlier this week, someone compromised my eBay account and posted forty fraudulent auctions. As it stands, eBay thinks I owe them $75.

location: 2316 Franklin Drive, Bryan, TX, 77801 mood: bitter music: The Oohlas - Small Parts

Okay, so I'm taking this test on OKCupid, which asks one to pick between various women; something about beauty or other.
Beside the point.

The headshots on the left are the creepiest I've ever seen:

My schedule for this semester:

• CPSC 420 - Artificial Intelligence


• CPSC 431 - Software Engineering


• ENDS 489-501 - Video Game Design


• ENDS 489-503 - Designing the Web

..okay.

location: 2316 Franklin Drive, Bryan, TX, 77801 mood: blank music: Stars - The First Five Times

My new Wii does nothing to fill the void within my heart, even when plugged into my new 52" HDTV.

...or "What I'm Listening To Right Now"

1. Iron & Wine - Bird Stealing Bread


2. Death Cab For Cutie - title and registration


3. The Cure - Pictures of You


4. Weezer & The Rentals - I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams


5. Unwritten Law - Rest of my Life


6. Harvey Danger - Happines Writes White


7. Iron & Wine - Muddy Hymnal


8. Le Chevre - My Life in a Few Words


9. The Cure - Pictures Of You


10. Weezer - The World has turned and left me here


11. Tegan and Sara - Wake Up Exhausted


12. The Rentals - Please Let That Be You


13. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You into the Dark


14. r.e.m. - Near Wild Heaven


15. The Eames Era - You May Not Know My Name


16. Calamine - Flicker


17. The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rules


18. Rilo Kiley - Rest Of My Life

I'll try to post something meaningful tomorrow.

Obligatory: She's gone away and you think that you might day / But you're a strong boy, you'll survive / You sit around and contemplate the things that you might say if she calls / She's never gonna call

And so the crown for the saddest music video ever passes. The video reminds me of Oppenheimer's Breakfast in NYC video.

Me-time.

I haven't done anything or gone anywhere for winter break. I went to austin for a few hours Christmas eve to visit family. I spent NYE alone. In bed, in fact; reading.
I received a new camera for Christmas. I haven't taken any really good photographs with it yet.

Something about this picture short-circuits my brain. I realize it lacks comedeic depth, but every time I look at it, I laught. I believe this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.



I am, in fact, going to reload my journal after posting this, just so I can look at the picture again.

Pictures. Of me, unfortunately; nothing terrribly interesting.
( hop )

San Antonio. 's not so bad. My grandmother's funeral is tomorrow; after that, back to Bryan. Total time in town: 16 hours.