Over the last two weeks I’ve been working on a new web site. The site started out as a frustration I have with web sites that use email validation scripts to check users email addresses format. What I have noticed is that most email validation scripts check to see if the user name has alpha, alphanumeric or a few other standard characters such as a underscore “_”. Most of the validation scripts do not allow for a plus sign “+” to be in the email address even know a plus is an acceptable character, and one that I use in my email addresses.
After running into two or three site that do not use a validation script that is RFC5322 compliant in one day I decided to start a web site about it. I started to research what was an acceptable email address and found out that the RFC standard pretty much allows any character in the local part of an email address. The local part of the email address is the name or part before the last at symbol “@”. exp local@domain.tld
The site had turned into more then just a place for me to complain about validation script, it had turned into a tool for developers to use. It will check an email address to see if it is RFC5322 compliant, it will also check to see if the email address’s domain is listed on a number of spam blacklists and it will check to see if the email address is listed on forum spam blacklists.
At the moment the site is still in beta so not all functions are avalebe.
and the site is: http://legitimize.me
I started a new web site last week (http://wordsfor.me). As the about page states:
“I started this project because I love words, the sound the meaning and the “feel” of them.
I am dyslexic and reading and writing has always and will always be a challenge for me; but because of the amount of efferent I have to put into a word, sentence, or book I find that I have fallen in love with the “word”. So I put together this site to share some of the words that resonate with me or just sound exquisite on the tongue or have a definition I find excellent.”
I’ve started a list of software, tools, utilitys, and web sites that I find useful (Software List)
I spent the better part of yesterday (01/24/09) updating the look and feeling of http://down-time.com
Take a look at it and let me know what you think 
Over the last year I have been to three weddings two for family and one for friends. I wanted to post some of the pictures that I took at the weddings.
My friends Steve and Erin’s wedding
My uncle Scott and his wife Jessica’s wedding.
My cousin’s Julie and her husben Andy’s wedding.
Over the last few days I have been working on getting my “Experimental Development” site (http://faulk.me/) up and running, and as of yesterday it is.
I wanted the site to be where I post projects that I’m working on so that the public can use them. Right now I only have two of my projects up there, I hope to add more as I get time.
On a side note, I was working with the Clark and Atkins for Eureka city council campaign as a web app developer for them. The campaign is now over and some good came from are efferts, Linda Atkins was elected to the Eureka city council, sadly George Clark was not.
-Winter
Last night after hours the FDIC ceased Washington Mutual and sold its assets off to JPMorgan Chase, in the process they screwed every share holder. I personally only lost about $80, not much at all but I have see that some people have lost $30k or more.
From last weeks shorts freeze, this bullshit bailout, and now this, I think it is time for are goverment and us to deside if we are a socialist country or a capitalis county. As things stand right now we are socialist for the rich when things are bad and capitalist for the rich when things are good and we the lower and mid class just get fucked. We are left paying for others bad ideas, we are left with no health care, we are left with no jobs, and we are left with a list of bad things that is just too long.
Sorry for the rant.
-Winter
Today I ran across a new add-in for Firefox called Ubiquity (http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/) its a very cool tool for quickly doing a number of things with a quick key stroke.
Here are some examples of things you can do:
- Highlight an address and get a google map of it.
- Translate selected text in a web page.
- Add a new meeting or event to your Google calendar.
And much more.
Yesterday I was on OpenDNS’s (http://opendns.com) site and noticed that they have a new-to-me section called “Domain Tagging” (http://www.opendns.com/community/domaintagging/) where you can tag any domain or lookup what others have tagged the domain with. e.g. digg.com is tagged as a number of defrent things like news/media, blog and others. You can then deside if you agree with the tag or not.
Here is a small Ubiquity script that makes it easier to submit a site to OpenDNS’s Domain Tagging.
CmdUtils.CreateCommand(
{
name: “opendns”,
icon: “http://opendns.com/favicon.ico”,
homepage: “http://livinglion.com/?p=14?”,
description: “Submit a page to OpenDNS’s Domain Tagging site.”,
license: “GPL”,
author:
{
name: “Winter Faulk”, email: “winter@livinglion.com”
},
execute: function()
{
var getUrl = context.focusedWindow.document.location.hostname;
var url = “http://domain.opendns.com/”+getUrl;
openUrl(url);
}
})
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Over the last week or so I have been helping Alec Johnson the director of both George Clark and Linda Atkins campaign for Eureka City Council. The help I have been offering is a fun and possibly a very large web based front end with a MySQL back end project. I am helping Alec create a database for the campaign to use for keeping track of voters status turds the campaign and info about what kind of connection the campaign has had or dose have with the voter, e.g., How much they have donated to this camping, what they voted in the last election or three elections ago, what their stats is turds this campaign (for, against, or swing), and a lot more.
I am hopping that when we are done we will have a service that can be freely available to any and all campaigns in the USA.
I was thinking today about the common question, what came first the chicken or the egg? Now this is a question that many people have heard and many have jokingly argued about so in this post I will show you my answer to what came first the chicken or the egg?
First off I don’t think the question is as simple as one or the other came first I think it is going to depend on your beliefs. You have to ask your self one question before you can start to analyze what the answer to this basic yet profound question could be. That question is do you subscribe to Darwinism or to creationism? If the answer is creationism then the answer in my mind would be one of two answers the first one being the chicken for God created the chicken and the chicken lays the eggs. The second possible answer would be both for God created everything.
A Darwinist could say that the egg came first. A bird very similar to the chicken but not evolved to be what we know now as a chicken laid an egg. In the possess of that egg embryo forming into a baby version of what ever bird laid it there was a mutation of some kind. The mutation changed the embryo enough that it grow into what we know now as being a chicken, therefore the egg came first, right? Well maybe not by using the above argument you could stat that the chicken came first for the egg was the egg of a deferent bird so therefore was not the egg that the question refers to. My argument ageist this is that once that mutation took form the egg became the egg of a chicken, not laid by a chicken but the protective home for the new chicken embryo, letting it grow and thus became a chicken egg.
A deferent view could be that the question refers to the first egg ever to come into existence if you look at it by this point of view then you would have to analyze life from the beginning and that again would depend on if you are for Darwinism or for creationism. Sens the creationism answer is relatively simple and is the same as the above stated answers I will look at it from the Darwinist’s point of view. If the question refers to the first egg ever to show up in life then sens chickens have been around a relatively short period of time compared to life and the chicken was not the first animal to lay an egg then the answer would have to be the egg came first.
Now the last point of view that I will cover is the egg and the chicken came to be at the same time. Now how can that happen? The idea is that as soon as the embryo changed in the egg from growing into the deferent type of bird and instead growing into a chicken the egg changed from being an egg for the deferent kind of bird into being a chicken egg, not the egg of a chicken but a chicken egg for it was housing the evolution of the first chicken. Therefore the egg and the chicken came into existence at the same time.