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I just can’t help it. I love saying it. I love that he actually is so clearly breaking the law and we actually have a chance to do it. Though I doubt the Democrats on the hill will really have enough spine to follow through.

I signed the petition, even though I doubt it will really happen.

Update Aug. 21, 08:
This script is actually kinda pointless as there exists a better way to do the same thing.

My hosting company provides webmail access with SquirrelMail. In the last few years I’ve taken to only using webmail and not even having a mail client installed on most of my machines. Why bother with downloading all that mail directly to my computer. My host provides plenty of storage for cheap, so why not just keep all my mail on the server?

So anyway the problem comes up when you click on a mailto link on some web page. These are becoming pretty uncommon these days as they tend to attract spambots to the address they point to. When I do click on one, the browser always ends up spinning it’s wheels launching Outlook Express or Evolution or whatever the default mail client is on that machine. I need a way to just open up the web page to write a mail with SquirrelMail.

Enter Opera UserJS…

The Opera Web Browser has a nice little feature for hackers like me… You can install javascript scripts that modify pages as you view them to tweak them to your own preferences or add new features to your user experience.

squirrelTo is my solution to the problem. squirrelTo re-writes mailto on web pages as you browse them and turns them into links that will open a compose window in your squirrelMail server to the address pointed to in the mailto link.

To use this script, save it to your Opera User JS directory and, very important edit the following lines:

/*********************
Configure options here
*********************/
 
// Change this variable to point to your squirrelmail install
var squirrelPath = "http://example.com/path/to/squirrelmail/src/";

You must change the “http://example.com/path/to/squirrelmail/src/” to the corresponding address and path of your squirrelMail instance for this to work at all. Also, it only works you are already logged into your squirrelMail server when you click on the link. If not, it just takes you to the login page of you your server.

Download SquirrelTo 0.3 for Opera UserJS here Right click on this link and choose to save the target to your UserJS folder. If you’re not familiar with Opera UserJS, I suggest you check out this tutorial here.

Oh yeah - for greasemonkey users… I haven’t tried it with greasemonkey and I bet it doesn’t work, but I bet it wont be too hard to make it work or copy the idea. If you convert this to greasemonkey let me know and I’ll link to your script or bring in your changes…

I was pretty pissed about the Democrat’s cave in on the FISA bill. MoveOn.org sent out an e-mail asking people to tell Obama to pledge to investigate the criminal actions of the Bush administration should he get elected.

This gave me a nice opportunity to vent a bit about it:

Senator Obama -

I was extremely excited to vote for you in the California primary.

One of the things that I’ve liked about your campain is that are willing to stand up to republicans line of rhetoric on many issues like foreign policy, patriotism, and race and tell it like it is.

I am extremely dissapointed in your vote for the FISA “compromise” bill. I don’t see this bill as a comprimise at all, but rather a cave in on the part of the Democrats on Capitol Hill.

I feel that this bill dangerously weekens the Constitution of the United States. It undermines the balance of powers and the rule of law by saying that if the president asks you to break the law, it’s not breaking the law.

Democrats in Congress and the Senate have been unwilling to prosecute the President and his staff for clearly violating the original FISA statute because it is politically inconvenient in an election year.

I’m asking you now to stand up and tell it like it is. The Bush administration broke the FISA law. They have broken the law on other issues as well. I think that you should stand up and say that this is one of the ways that the Bush administration strayed off of the path of law and democracy after 9/11 and that if elected you will launch a full criminal investigation into the ways that the Bush administration broke the law.

It is more important that what political tactics are conveinient in an election year. It is about protecting the constitution now and for the future.

Here’s the link where you can do the same : http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2