Forwarding multiple emails across two Gmail accounts

Friday 12/5/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

My inbox was getting cluttered with work-related stuff, so I decided to push it to a separate Gmail account.  Now Gmail has a nifty “Forward all” feature for single conversations, but doesn’t provide a way to forward multiple conversations at one time.
After Googling for a bit, someone suggested using a mail client and IMAP.

Make sure [...]

swfobject error in IE and WordPress

Friday 12/5/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

I ran into a minor annoyance today with a JS error popping up in IE:
‘J.parentNode’ is null or not an object
It turns out that a couple plugins that were active (nextgen-gallery and flash-video-player) were both including the swfobject.js in the header.  Solution: disable one of the plugins.  If you really need both plugins, the other [...]

Adium Top Words (part 2)

Wednesday 12/3/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

I decided to use Shoes (a Ruby graphics toolkit) to create a GUI to make it easier so you don’t have to open terminal at all.
Try it!

Adium Top Words

Saturday 11/29/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

I have a strange habit of periodically going through my chat logs and re-reading random conversations.  When I was doing this yesterday, I wondered what my most frequently used words were in IM land.
Since Adium log files are in nice XML format, I decided to write a Ruby script to process all my logs and [...]

Apache and DirectoryIndex

Friday 11/28/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

If you’re getting this error:
Request exceeded the limit of 10 subrequest nesting
make sure your conf file has the DirectoryIndex variable set correctly. I had accidentally copied a conf for a Rails app that had the line
DirectoryIndex /
which was making Apache not serve the index.html file like it usually does.  Once I got rid of DirectoryIndex [...]