The Downward Spiral

for the most part I cut out everything before January 2007 from my journal here, but I went back and turned on the emails about cbprotect and how ridiculous their “DRM” is.

just to recap, I really think I’m doing the right thing here by telling them how their product is broken and that they are selling someone to people that gives them a false sense of security. And then upon being told that their protection is protection against the “less savvy” out there, I decided to post the post about how to crack cbprotect is here.

That argument is stupid.  If someone takes the lines of code from that post and makes a windows executable, then it’ll be all over.  I had made this in to a php application where you could upload a cbprotected exe and it would mail you back a pdf, but I took it down.

I don’t even crack stuff for a living.. they just rubbed me the wrong way.. all DRMs do.. profiteering off lies based on ignorance is also something that irks me.

I’m on twitter now.. since I seem to fit the bill of a blogger, I might as well go all out with mini-blogging too… I even told twitter to tell me if I didn’t send them something within the last 24 hours to bug me about it.  I can update from my tmobile phone (for free) and from my IM client via GTalk.  I have my latest “tweet” on the right side of my page and linked it with facebook and myspace.

stories back online on the right

quotes to the right side… both If I ever became an evil overlord and my quotes section.. yes.. they are back .. bitches!

http://www.gravatar.com … get your online dude regist0r3d

openID is now enabled on ds both for leaving comments and for being my server… well it was already a server, but it’s back on there now.. and linked to wordpress

I have about half of the pages I’m going to keep up back up. The notable page that I’m dropping is the Occult page. I’m dropping all links to it. Two reasons… a) I really don’t believe in that stuff anymore… if I ever did… it was always academic anyway. I only use it as handy ways to mention things that I really do believe in. b) It gives the wrong impression… I’m more a hard science guy than anything else, but I kind of like to talk in metaphor, especially when talking about things that you can’t really know about.

I’ve decided to redo ds.initiated.com entirely and I’m moving toward the future with a content management system here in Wordpress. I’ll also close my livejournal, but I wanted to copy everything over from it. There is a tool included to do such a thing but it’s incomplete. It won’t do private stuff and it won’t import tags. Here are the lines to add to get that working… well it only does 1 tag and you have to have the same tags defined, before the import, in Wordpress.

But ya.. the private thing was HUGE.

./wp-admin/import/livejournal.php

preg_match(’|<security>(.*?)</security>|is’, $post, $post_status);
$post_status = strip_tags($post_status[0]);
if($post_status == ‘usemask’) $post_status = ‘private’;
if($post_status != ‘private’) $post_status = ‘publish’;

preg_match(’|<taglist>(.*?)</taglist>|is’, $post, $post_category);
$post_category = array(get_cat_ID(strip_tags($post_category[0])));