a blog by Brie Gordon

Brie Gordon

I'm Brie, a 22 year-old graduate of Slippery Rock University's Computer Science department. My interests include Linux (generally and Ubuntu), networking, BSD-style operating systems including my own, BrieSD, translating English-Spanish-English for open source projects and LAMP configuration. Aside from that, I enjoy photography, making short films and soccer.

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19 Nov 2009

November 19th, 6:25am 0 comments

Two complaints about Google and a note on speedy Googlebots.

I have two bones to pick with Google this morning.

First: gMail is not fully RFC822-compliant. I should be able to send mail to myself in this format:

brie@[127.0.0.1]

(Where 127.0.0.1 is the public IP) however Google provides you with a lovely error message when you try to do that. See photo.
There is an awesome RFC822 address parser here that shows that email addresses of this type are acceptable:
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate

The RFC itself is available here: http://www.unixsysadmin.org/documents/

Second:
The (second) biggest gripe about Google Wave is how lonely it is. Well, for those of us with a few friends on Google Wave, it would be nice to get an email (or some other note) when there has been a reply to a wave. I have no way of knowing if someone got back to me short of logging in.

Note: Lots of people complain that Google takes forever to crawl their site. I registered unixsysadmin.org on the 15th (4 days ago) and several little Googlebots have been by (I set up some PHP in my Error Document so that I am notified by email every time they look for the robots.txt file I've been too lazy to set up and don't see it) already. Interesting. My best guess on why is the nature of the domain name. unixsysadmin.org probably sounds like an important site to Google.

That's all for now, assuming you got this far. :-).

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12 Nov 2009

November 12th, 8:24pm 0 comments

Pretty Much Everyone's Feelings about Google Wave

Google Wave is awesome. But no one has any friends on it. I Wave with
my Dad sometimes, my boyfriend and a few people I met on Twitter. Once
more people get invites it'll get cool and then *too* many people will
have it and we'll be off to the next new thing.

picture from Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a3qeq/my_coworker_drew_this_on_the_company_whiteboard/.mobile

Filed under friends google google wave invites lonely reality reddit twitter wave