Indistinguishable from Jesse

Thanks to aebrahim and Biz Stone for the Gmail invite.

Two strange things from the Terms of Service:

"Google disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service."

"You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor, or copy any content from the Service." (Does that include checking my e-mail every 5 minutes?)

Amazing snow sculptures and ice architecture at a festival in Harbin, China (via Mom).

I filed 11 bugs in 6 hours today :) 7 of the bugs required testcases. My "bugs to file" folder is down from 112 files to 73, not counting subdirectories.

I updated Pornzilla today. I rewrote the introduction and the About Pornzilla section. I also wrote and added some search bookmarklets, including one that searches Google for pages on the same site that have the same title.

Google "site:" searches no longer require search terms. I used to search for e.g. "site:www.squarefree.com -asdf" to get a list of all pages on a site; now I can just search for "site:www.squarefree.com". I don't know how long this has been fixed.

• A carpool is a group of people who commute with each other. Therefore, a carpool is an abelian group.
• If 1=0 in the zero ring, why don't they call it The One Ring instead?

Yes, I came up with them.

I will spend the summer in Austin, Texas, working in the Mozilla group at IBM.

I will start graduate school at UCSD in September.

I had to install Enigmail and gpg in order to send a vulnerability report to CERT.

I am not happy with gpg's UI. I had to read this page to figure out which command-line options I had to use. GPG gives a vague yet serious-sounding warning if you use an empty "passphrase" when creating your key. (As far as I can tell, a strong passphrase protects you against someone who can read the file containing your private key, but other than that it doesn't increase security.) It asked me to move the mouse around and bang on the keyboard while it generated my keys, but it generated the keys in less than a second, making me worry that it didn't use any good sources of entropy when it created my key.

I was able to figure out how to use Enigmail without much trouble. I encountered lots of warning and error messages, but I think they were all necessary. (I didn't like the text "This message will appear 1 more time" at the bottom of most of the warnings, though. I don't want Enigmail to keep me from making a mistake just because I almost made the mistake 2 times in the past!) Enigmail's options were split between the Options window and the Account Settings window, but that's a problem with Thunderbird in general.

Neither CERT nor Enigmail warned me that the subject of my e-mail would be sent unencrypted.