Married at last, Pfeww!

There is a ring on my finger. It feels good. It feels great in fact. I married a great, great woman, and I feel lucky. The knowledge that Yamit has a twin ring on her finger, linking her to myself in an emotional and faith sharing way is a magical, mystical wonder to me.

I’m so very happy to have finally started the second stage of my life as an adult (the first being a self sustaining adult). And soon, to the third stage where I give of myself entirely, to raise children (ETA: 3.5 years).

The wedding itself was nice. We took a strategic decision to be there with our guests, as opposed to simply “appearing” for the religious ceremony. This proved the right thing to do because the wedding came and went fast enough as it is, and if we had decided to only show up for the ceremony, we would have even less time to be with the guests, and the wedding would seem even shorter.

Neuromancer, first steps

The PsychoMu Project, like a few others probably, shows the very first practical steps humanity is making to reach a place where humans can communicate with each other directly, brain to brain.

The experiment shows one subject guiding another subject through an obstacle field, whether through thought or by moving the head is not entirely clear. Perhaps the electrodes applied to the neck muscles have something to do with it, rather than using thought reading, but this is still quite advanced already.

Practical applications are infinite, from remote commanding of troops to teledildonics to virtual experiences for the disabled, the applications are only limited by our imagination.

Your own Gmail!

Today I was accepted as a Beta Tester of Gmail for Domains. This means that all mail for my domain (for example: TradeZone.co.il) will now be handled by Google. I get up to 1000 mailboxes of 2gb each. That’s 2TB potentially!

That’s quite awesome. I have already changed MX records for the domain, and it actually works. I sent a test mail to a mailbox on tradezone.co.il and it was received immediately.

Here are some screen shots. First the Dashboard:

The Dashboard

And the Domain Settings:

Domain Settings

So the next question most people I know asked me was: How do I automate the creation of Mailboxes for my domain users?

There is no API for this as far as I know. You can either create them manually one by one, or you can upload a CSV file using the “Advanced Tools” section. Google shows you how to create a CSV file with Microsoft Excel however you can easily generate this CSV file yourself in Java/PHP/Perl/etc.

On the other hand you would have to create a script that logs in, and then posts the CSV file to the same URL in the “Advanced Tools” form. A bit hacky but should work!

Here’s what the “Advanced Tools” section looks like:

Advanced Tools