Khobbits Blog

Well just a few days ago I got accepted for the gmail for domains beta, basically you point your dns at google, and then let it handle your mail, currently I have a 25 ‘user’ limit (I’ll get to that in a seccond) and it looks pritty neat. I have khobbits.co.uk quite obviously as the email domain, allthough I suppose I could have used anything else…

Well it has a 25 ‘user’ limit, by user it means accounts, not email addresses…. For each account you get a basic sign in name, that is the name they sign in at your domain sign in url (I set mail.khobbits.co.uk to forward there), you also get to add as many ‘nicknames’ as you like, which are just alternate emails, I have such as khobbits,kh,admin@ that sort of thing. A nice extra feature is built in email lists, where you can set up a list of accounts to send to, nice for sites you want more than one person to get error reports ect from.

I just finished setting up a forward account, I’m hoping it will allow me to set up email for people who don’t want a seperate email inbox, or I to have to waste an account just to set it to forward to others, so I set up an account, which I can add unlimited nicknames too, and told that account for filter by address. I think this should work for most circumstances, I assume this wont work for email forwarded to this email via another account though, seeing as its only filtering by the ‘to:’ box…

I was trying to do my homework, some of the work I’ve got left over from not doing very much over the half term, when someone throws a link to this article on digg this is something I’m quite glad I decided to look up from my work for. An article on:

Why MySpace is a waste of humanity

Using the power of Google searches, it’s possible to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity and swamp of degenerate youth. A depressing study of a hilarious problem.

read more

Edit: Oh also between homework I stumbled on this link | digg story

Anyone who spends a lot of time on computers and uses passwords should know the danger of key-loggers, from people who play web games to people who use online banking should be aware of the danger of having people log passwords. I’m still not sure if Bede’s actually does key-log, but I’m pretty sure places like public libraries do, and if not purposely someone will have installed one somewhere along the line. I was just reading a few news articles on my /ig homepage when I found a little article on key-loggers and a famous bank attempt. The article starts like this…

This wonderful little gadget is for sale over at Thinkgeek. It is coloured an innocuous IBM grey so no one will notice when you attach it to their keyboard. It fits between the back of the PC and the keyboard cable. It needs no power and it can record 130,000 keystrokes.

Well the last couple of days I’ve been playing with a few extra things for my blog, I’ve installed a spam checker thing for my blog which should filter out some of the more annoying comments (I’ve had 4 in the last 3 days) which were just spam and advertising other sites. To go with this I had to register up for the real wordpress site, and got something like khobbits.wordpress.com/ but I just spammed that blog with links to this one, I hope there are no problems with it. In other news, I added a sort of admin tool bar to allow editing posts and management easier I’m not quite sure what user level is needed but I think WP is secure enough to send I’ll clickers back anyway.
One last update with the blog is PHP, currently its set to level 9, but I’ll lower it if any (future?) users want it, I suppose I might as well test it seeing as its installed, hmm how about the traditional test:
Print "Hello World
Time:”.date(”l dS of F Y h:i:s A”);

I was just waking up checking my chat channels to see what was up, make sure there wasn’t any problems or anything I needed to deal with, and to set my nick as away instead of asleep, that was when I found a nice snippet from Kami a post from CAD. Its a great comic and I’ve read it for years, but as quickly found out he has a nice rant on their that I firstly agree with and also find remarkably funny. He also has a good idea

I’d like to announce that I just signed a multi-million dollar contract with a private firm to open the first of many CAD Hotels…The rooms won’t contain a bed, a bathroom, or those stupid little desks that nobody uses. Instead, one entire wall will be comprised of a projection video screen, and all of the latest games will be available for play for only $2.95 a minute.

Only if :D! Even if you don’t follow the comics, you should be able to relate with the rant anyway, oh the attached comic can be found here.

Its rare that I make a post that isn’t related to this site or to the connected people, but today I’ve decided that I will expand on this, from now on, I’m going to start posting random crap into a separate category with some techno-babble and other random web rubbish :p

For people who are interested you can still use the categories down the side to filter out what’s probably worth reading, most of our personal stuff will go in the ‘personal’ folder, and stuff related to my websites and that sort of stuff will be dumped in ’site’ and the corresponding sub folder. I will however, probably mark my techno-babble with my personal category as well… I’m not sure how confusing that is going to be…

Hmm the first topic is probably a quick glance at the screwed up .eu registration, it was a good idea but the way they’ve got about it is pretty screwy, they’ve thrown together a badly managed system and can’t be assed to fix it. There’s a nice article here about it. The result is cheating firms get cheap .eu domains to sell for thousands of pounds.

Sitting here in general RE, the most interesting lesson on my timetable (well at least one I have free time to write in here). I get one lesson a week and have to do a stupid presentation thing involving social teaching. Yay!

I cant really be assed to do any work, its one of them compulsory subjects that you just have to do.

Oh and BTW Kirsty Smells!

Hmm it’s been a weird day, well April fools was, it’s currently  04:20 on the second and I am still wide awake, I’m not sure why but it’s probably related to my extra long sleep last night.  I went to bed pretty early and slept until after 12 (effectively missing my chance to do any good joke pulling).  Having missed it all when I got back from the metro, I decided to have a browse of the net to see what’s happened. 

As usual Google posted a cool little Aprils fools, from a dating service to small things here and there such as a bit of alien clip-art on area 51.  A good few websites donned a pink skin, such as slashdot and a few other sites, and there was a msn search spoof (link:a set of results for my Nat) site put up allowing people to show others fake search results.

The BBC has a good list of aprils fools stuff.
And Wikipedia also has a more web based list of April fool’s day hoaxes, including a list of a few things that were mistaken as hoaxes.

More locally stennie fooled her parents pretty easily and a few of us as well with some nifty webcam work and the “I’ve dyed my hair line”, according to Marc it was the fact she was on webcam and moving and still with pink hair was what did it for him, I’m not surprised I only saw her dp, and assumed Photoshop from min 1.

Edit: So i got up at 1pm not too bad for how late i went to bed, I’ve added my xfire profile bar at the bottom of the page which tracks the time I’ve spent online and on which games, just incase anyone is mildly interested.

Edit: The xfire profile bar was removed at time of writing but might get restored later, i’ll probably throw it onto a seperate page for sigs and other sorts of things.