This is a continuation of the previous entry.
So there I was, in some kind of thought-frenzy, wondering why no one was harnessing public key encryption to solve this problem. We already had something similar working with ssh, where you can set up to authenticate you without a password by using an authorized key. I’m not a cryptographer (ologist? Which is correct?) so I don’t really know how viable my idea was, but basically I wanted some way to authenticate myself to all these internet fora, blogs, and maybe even e-commerce sites. Why not?
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So in one of my recent manic episodes I actually had an idea that I think could have potential. Something earlier in the day had got me good and fed up with internet logins. I would like to hereby dub it Messer’s Catastrophe of Infinite Login Proliferation. Or something.
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So I’ve noticed recently that I actually do have a sort of manic episode to complement my basically constant deep, sinking depression. I say a sort because I’ve always equated the term manic with a very energetic physical sort of activity. This is all very vague and undeveloped in my mind, but I suppose I imagined folks suffering through their manic phase as somehow running about like loonies, jumping up and down, or perhaps engaging in carpentry. That sort of thing.
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Just found this while trying to filter emails from a mailling list: Gmail filters hack. I wanted to get the mails from the server and the mail to the list. Very very clever.
Oh, and google (in the search sense) rules. 2 minutes from being frustrated at not being able to figure out how to do what I want to having an answer. Shiny.
