Forwarding multiple emails across two Gmail accounts

Friday 12/5/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  1 Comment

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.

1. Make sure IMAP is enabled on both accounts (Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP)
2. Add both of your accounts to your preferred mail client.  Apple Mail worked fine for me.
3. Now you can drag and drop whatever you need between the two accounts.  Voila!

swfobject error in IE and WordPress

Friday 12/5/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments

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 alternative would be to statically include your plugin files in header.php rather than relying on the wp_head(); function.

Adium Top Words (part 2)

Wednesday 12/3/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  1 Comment

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  –  7 Comments

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 spit out a display of my top words.

A chatlog haiku based on my top words:

i to a it ha
for and is yeah its have that
in be of so what

Beautifully mundane.

Get the script here.

Usage: ruby topwords.rb MAC_OS_USERNAME IM_USERNAME IM_PROTOCOL
Example: ruby topwords.rb jzting jzting@gmail.com GTalk
IM Protocols: Jabber, MSN, AIM, GTalk, etc...

It will output the topwords.html file in the same directory that you ran the script.

Apache and DirectoryIndex

Friday 11/28/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments

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 everything worked fine.