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Disk drive

7:54am JST Thursday 23 August 2007 (day 13665)

My dumb disk drive is making a ton of noise, but I can't figure out why. There's basically no activity in either CPU, disk IO, ethernet IO, and the only applications I have running are Emacs, Terminal, and now the Activity Monitor.

I had had Firefox open, but even after closing it, my disk was going nuts.

For Chris Zarate

HI Chris

Your analysis of what I did is correct: it allows me to use my personal SGP from any computer.  I'm
not so much concerned about your site being down (it's always been up when I need it), but I like to
have my SGP settings already set: length, mIxEd cAsE, and my master password embedded.

The reason for my comment is simply that it took me about half an hour to figure out exactly how to
post SGP on my site.  The bookmark is automagic, but as part of an html page.. I didn't know if it
needed to be inside <script /> tags, or what.

The answer is easy enough, but I wanted to save people the time to figure out how to post their SGP to their site.

As per your comment below, I *can* now run SGP directly from my website, though I have to click [+]
and enter the URL of the site for which I want my password.

Regarding KTRU, I wasn't a Rice student, but a community DJ at KTRU for a couple of years (some 5
years ago now).  Great great fun.

Did you go to Rice?  How do you know KTRU?  You don't happen to live in Houston, do you?  (I did for
25+ years, but I'm in Tokyo now).

    - Rob


On 8/23/07, Chris Zarate wrote:


    Rob,

    Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure I understand what is being
    accomplished, though. The only reason I can think to put SGP on your Web
    site is to have a quick, easily accessible way to add the SGP bookmarklet
    to a new browser -- or as insurance for the possibility of my Web site
    being down. But you seem to be implying that you are modifying SGP to run
    directly from this link on your Web site. Is that correct, or am I missing
    something? I guess I'm asking: what does this allow you to do? I may be
    missing a good idea here.

    I also noticed on your site a reference to KTRU. Did you go to Rice?

    -Chris




    On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:42:10 -0400, Rob Nugen wrote:
    > Posted 2007-08-20 22:42:10:
    >
    > I love SGP!  Thanks so much for it.
    >
    > I note above that [I can safely post my SGP
    > bookmarklet](http://labs.zarate.org/passwd_new/#Comment24) to my website
    > as long as I don't hardcode the master password into the script.
    >
    > What I don't see above is exactly *how* to do that.  I figured it out
    > though.  This is for anyone who wants to post their version of SGP
    online.
    >  It works for me on Firefox and OS X; not sure about IE.
    >
    > 1. After [creating your
    > bookmarklet](http://labs.zarate.org/passwd_new/builder.html), somehow
    copy
    > the resulting bookmarklet and paste it in the html markup below (replace
    > square brackets with angle brackets):
    >
    >
    >    `[a href="`**javascript:(function(){ *[-- ~30K SNIPPED --]*
    > ,true);})();**`"]SGP[/a]`
    >
    > 2. Upload this to your website.  (It will not work on your local
    computer,
    > I imagine because SGP won't parse the URI for a local filename.  (As
    Chris
    > says, it's not designed for local use.))
    >
    > --
    >
    > Another option: After creating your bookmarklet, cut-n-paste the
    > bookmarklet with its surrounding html code, and then remove
    > **onclick="return false;"** from just after the bookmarklet.  (This code
    > is designed to keep the bookmarklet from being run on the bookmarklet
    > creation page, and would keep it from working on your site.)
    >
    > The resulting html should work on your website.
    >
    > I hope this helps!
    >

-- 
The love that you give is the pain that you release. 

Great productivity

11:35am JST Thursday 23 August 2007 (day 13665)

Have been quite productive so far today... basically enough to just chill the rest of the day and I won't mind.

Got my toe fixed. I had had an ingrown toenail that was all infected and shit, and had been that way for about a month. It didn't seem to be getting better, and in fact it hurt worse when I put triple-antibiotic ointment on it. (Though to be clear, the ointment had expired in 1998..)

Anyway, to the only clinic in Motosumiyoshi that's open on Thursdays (most clinics in Japan are closed on Thursdays... Why not every clinic have a *different* day off each week; why pick on people on Thursday?) and the doctor laughed / agreed that one month was plenty of time to let it heal itself.

I asked how much it would cost, and after the first price of 35,000 yen was out of my budget (I have it in the bank, but I gots to make my money last until I get paid, which will presumably be in mid October) so the price was shifted down to a total of 27,??? yen including tax, so I'm guessing I got a 10,000 yen discount. The doctor was like, "it's good for you eat..." implying that my food intake was more important than his cash intake.

To be sure, the procedure took about 10 minutes max, including injecting local antesthetic. It appeared that the introduction of that volume of antesthetic caused blood to pour out of the swollen infected area. Not sure how accurate was my analysis.

I took pictures for as long as I could stay upright before passing out. I never actually passed out, but I was definitely losing the ability to see / sit up right. I was like "okay, bye-bye..." and the nurses laughed. I had assured them I wanted to sit up to take pictures and not just sleep through such a rare experience.

Unfortunately, most of the pictures are blurry. And then ones I took while lying down are not of my toe. Dammit.

Bought band-aids, went back to the clinic to get my umbrella, took pics of train line construction under Motosumiyoshi, and then got my address officially changed with 中原区役所, so I'm all officially moved and shit.

Now it's chow time.