Monthly Archives: May 2005

Bullish on the Bull Moose

It’s taken a while but I think the Bull Moose Blog has finally justified its existence.

Scoreboard feature requests

Upholder: if someone has left a job before reaching their 251mR date, the date should be greyed out like the rest of the line
Upholder: it might be good for the unreached 251mR dats for current jobs to be grey too.. or not..
ronin: heh, you could color the background of people’s rows based on how much [...]

Why no posts?

well, because I’ve been at the hospital.

The Phoenix Has Landed

Tread lightly.

Lunch for tomorrow?

I know what I’m doing…

New password generator

I wrote it in python for fun. Next I’ll redo it with javascript and write it up for greasemonkey. SHA1(secret + “sitename”)=>base64=>custom password.
Changing the secret would be a bitch, though. See password generator for the inspiration.

Cool Javascript Tech

Some nut has written a completely client-side wiki that you can serialize by saving the item back to disk.
I think he’s crazy, but as long as it’s available I think he should market it as “A Wiki Of One”.

Reading List

At some point, I’m going to be home for three weeks and having a baby to keep company at all hours of the day and night. So I’m making a list of things on the web to read while I sit around.
Elevenevele

Beware the Phoenix

It can arise at any moment and bite you in the ass!

Password Generator

Sam Ruby links to Nic Wolff’s javascript password generator. While it’s super cool and all — I mean, there’s a screencast! By Jon Udell! — the actual password algorithm is kinda stupid, in that it generates only 4bn unique passwords. That may seem like a lot, but for computers it’s not.
For a [...]