Michael Marineau

Vim's built in encryption feature is pretty handy but it's algorithm is only strong enough to protect against a casual observer. For good encryption something else is required but I still want something that is fairly transparent. I've come up with a little solution using GnuPG, just add the following to your .vimrc to automatically encrypt and decrypt *.gpg files. (Replace my key id with yours of course)

au BufNewFile,BufReadPre *.gpg :set secure viminfo= noswapfile nobackup nowritebackup history=0 binary au BufReadPost *.gpg :%!gpg -d 2>/dev/null au BufWritePre *.gpg :%!gpg -e -r CB06CE30 2>/dev/null au BufWritePost *.gpg u

I took this photo earlier this evening from the roof of my apartment building along with a few others. This place has a pretty good view of the city which should be nice for fireworks tomorrow. :-)

I am in the process of settling into my new home having all sorts of adventures but this one tonight is stupid enough to deserve a blog post. It turns out if I turn my air conditioner on the coldest setting and let it run for a day it tends to turn into a block of ice. The photo below was taken just a few minutes ago during the thaw process, and this is after an hour and scraping some off.

I am in the process of cleaning out all my stuff so I can move to Boston with a fairly minimal car load. I tend to collect all sorts of random things over the years which makes this process a bit difficult. (Why on earth do I have my pogs from elementary school?) On the up side I've found a few amusing things in the process. One such item is below. Way back when during my freshman year a couple girls compiled these "Rules of Engagement" and presented them to a group of guys including myself in a meeting of sorts. And yes, it does in fact start off with a quote from "Mystery Science Theater 3000."

Sorry for the poor quality, I don't have a scanner at the moment. Click for a larger version.