Type some code into this view, highlight it and then press the “J” button in the top right of the frame.  This will execute the code and return the results.

I’ve been using Eclipse for over three years and I only found about this feature the other day.  Oh well, we live and learn.

Firstly, you need to log into your Mailbox Manager.  This is seperate from the SquirrelMail site, and, for Dreamhost account, can be found at mailboxes.yourdomain.com.  The SquirrelMail login page links to it for me, but your milage may vary.

Once in the Mailbox Manager, you need to set up two mail filters.  Why two, you ask?  Simple.  One rule to move the messages to where you want them and a second rule to delete the messages from your inbox.  Wait, wait – move and then delete?  For some reason, SquirrelMail treats “move” as “copy”.  When you add a new rule you can choose the “Move it to folder” option.  Back in the Mailbox Manager this rule appears as “copy emails”, though, which I didn’t pick up on for a few days.  No wonder it didn’t work!

Oh, and your first rule needs to be set as “execute and continue” and your second one as “execute and stop.”  The first rule needs to be set like that to ensure that the second rule is actually run after copying the e-mails.  The second rule has to be set like that – you aren’t allowed to delete and e-mail and then carry on running filters on it

One final thing – when you specify the folder to move the e-mail to you don’t need to give the full path if it’s a subfolder of inbox.  E.g, if your target is Inbox->MyFolder, then just write “MyFolder”.  If your target is Inbox->MyFolder->MyOtherFolder, then you need to write “MyFolder.MyOtherFolder”.  Entering “Inbox.MyFolder” will create a folder with the path Inbox->Inbox->MyFolder.

The Mailbox Manager tells you that the folder needs to exist before the filters can move messages to it, but the existence of Inbox->Inbox->MyFolder on my system rather proves that wrong…

Well, here’s a tip for you – bring up the Task Manager (press ctrl+shift+esc, right
click on the taskbar and click “Task Manager” or press ctrl+alt+del followed by t),
navigate to the Applications tab, right click on the program that you can’t bring up
and click “Bring To Front.” No more losing a half-written email before you save it!
No more disappearing online bingo games. No more losing your work. I hope that this saves you some time and frustration. Sorted!

From my experience, this problem generally happens when you minimise a window just before it pops up a dialog box.  Using the task bar won’t restore the application as it can’t change its window state until you’ve responded to the dialog.  Shame you can’t actually see the dialog box…

I’ll write more about it once I’ve got a bit more used to it.

“Yeah, alright…”

So I’m now making a webcomic with my sister. I’m not going to link to it from here, since this is meant to be my more professional blog, but I want to briefly talk about it. I just spent a few hours hacking together a website for the comic using PHP, along with an upload page and a mini-blog for each individual comic. I’ve learnt how to do a few new things in PHP that I’ve never needed to do before, so I’d say that it was a productive evening.

One of my old online personae has been shamed beyond believe – all of the nine results on Google when searching for his name are relevant to do with me. They involve such gems as an X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter Yahoo! Group, a weird LiveJournal comment thread, a Total Annihilation newsgroup post and, my personal favourite, posts in the “Bikini Karate Babes” forum. Truely, nobody likes to recall the mistakes of their youth…

(And you thought that this was a serious blog…)

On the plus side, I don’t seem to have too much identity leakage. While it is certainly there (you could find the above mentioned gems with only a few minutes work) I don’t seem to be doing too badly.

Some people might consider this a bit of a creepy post – it’s not intended to be at all. It’s merely meant to show that you should be careful with your personal information. Also, that putting someone’s name into Google and following the obvious trail of results is not stalking

So there’s this girl at work. We’ll call her Charlie Aznablet because it’s a nice mix between her real name and the name of Zeon’s Red Comet, Char Aznable (from Gundam~).

In a moment of boredom, I did a search for her name on Google. The top hit was a portfolio website of the kind that fresh graduates tend to make to advertise themselves. What particularly drew my attention was the e-mail address mentioned – charlie@aznablet.co.uk (I reiterate – this is not her real name and this address is not real (I hope)). A second glance revealed that her site had previously contained her mobile phone number as well. Google hadn’t reindexed her contact page since she’d updated her site, so a simple search for her name revealed both her e-mail address and her mobile number. Not a good situation!

A few minutes on her website rewarded me with a link to her blogspot reviews blog. Searching for the URL for that site led to her DeviantArt account and all of the stuff that goes with profiles on that site.

Oh, and searching for her e-mail address on Facebook yielded her profile “Charlie A”, which was quite sensibly locked to people outside of her network.

And just a minute or two ago I found her LiveJournal, through a link on her DeviantArt… Thankfully she’s used the “friends only” feature for most of her entries.

The moral of this story is that you should be careful with the way that your various online presences link together. If I can find out why you were half-asleep at work one day, then so can your boss.

I’m pretty sure I just deleted one entitled “Indian Herpes Dating”.

Who would want such a thing?! Is there even a target audience for such spam?

Firstly, I now have a job. I’m working for a certain FTSE 100 company based in Cambridge, England. My job title is “Software Developer” and I’m involved in quite a few projects – I’m the UK guy for a company we own in California, plus I’ve worked on Blackberry software, a Java webapp and am currently working on JSR-168 portlets. My work is challenging and interesting, so I never get too bored. Whether things go well or badly, I tend to have quite a bit of fun. What can I say? I went in search of a job that would challenge me with interesting problems and I found one.

About a month ago I spent two weeks in Vista, California for business purposes. It was AWESOME. My photos from my “holiday” can be found in the gallery on this site.

I haven’t had much chance to do anything particularly geeky recently, since I spend almost 4 hours a day getting to and from work. I have an eee PC 901 to keep me amused while travelling, though, so it’s ok.

Speaking of my eee PC, I’m planning on wiping the preloaded Xandros install and replacing it with Windows XP and Ubuntu soon – XP for playing Visual Novels that won’t run under Wine, Ubuntu for everything else.

A few months ago I bought an Xbox 360. Getting back into gaming after so many years has undeniably taken up quite a bit of my free time. What can I say? I’ve been a gamer since I was very young, and I can now finally afford to buy consoles…

In other news, the time to change my mobile phone has finally come. I’ve got my heart set on a T-Mobile G1, but you know what? They won’t let me! I’ve been with T-Mobile for just over three years, but they won’t let me “upgrade” to a G1 and one of the contracts that they offer to new customers for some reason. If I cancelled my current contract (I’m out of the minimum term) and started afresh as a new customer, then I could have a G1. I really want to keep my mobile number, though, so I don’t want to do that. I’ve been advised to go back in the new year in the hope of the G1 being available for me, so I guess I’ll have to do that. I’m not very happy, though – I only have two weeks off over Christmas and I wanted to hack around on a G1! Sure, I can use the emulator that comes with the SDK, but it’s just not the same…

In other other news (I am so bad at starting new paragraphs), I’ve started playing my guitar again recently. My third year at Uni was too busy to play much, and I rarely have time after work since I get home quite late, so I’ve lost quite a lot of my skill at the instrument. Still, I can recover what I’ve lost and intend to do so!

I was listening to some of our recordings from a few years ago recently, and even now I like what I hear. They’re all pretty rough, but many of them have real potential. I’d be a shame to leave them like this.

That’s all I have to say for the moment, other than that Gundam 0079 was epic and that Zeta Gundam is finally shaping up to eclipse it’s predecessor. Any fan of Star Trek or Star Wars owes it to themselves to watch at least these two Gundam series (and maybe chase them down with The 08th MS Team). Gundam is the Japanese Star Wars.

So, what should I tackle next? Should I upgrade the binary adder into the binary RPN calculator that I talked about before (this would require buying some more switches) or should I try to drive the piezoelectric buzzer at frequencies corresponding to musical notes and make music? How can I choose?!