Finally got off my butt and added to tutorialtastic today.

Back when I first heard of XHTML it seemed like a brilliant idea. Here was a type of mark-up with rules, and rules mean an excuse to be my normal perfectionist self. It wasn’t long before I’d converted all 200+ pages of my website to this beautiful, lower-case, tidy syntax and was getting the green… read full entry »

I was just reading an article on the BBC news website about the wikipedia “scanner” picking up on people using CIA computers to edit entries, modifications to Gerry Adams’ entry from the Vatican, etc. (source) …interesting enough in itself, but that’s not what I’m blogging about. When I got to the bottom I realised that… read full entry »

We decided to name the kitty “Hex”, for various reasons…

Because you can never know too much, and it’s about time I wrote a follow-up to my PHP Script Checklist article. 1. Never include sensitive data in a .inc When I started my current job, one of the first things I did was move all of the database connection details (yes, that includes passwords) from… read full entry »

As someone who has ‘invested’ money into a range of t-shirts with a variety of slogans, I was somewhat disturbed to read this today: A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an “offensive” slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again. […] The slogan on… read full entry »

There’s a new addition to our little family… meet the as-of-yet unnamed (unless you count Karl calling him “Mofo”) sleeping ball of fur (AKA my new kitten): He’s noisy, and has a habit of licking everything, but is the cutest kitten in the whole damned world. Says me, right.

Yes, that’s right, I am confessing to abandoning my blog (amongst other things, like Snark). This past fortnight I’ve been spending every minute of free time working with Bubs to re-develop the quilting bee. There’s so many new features and functionality I’m not sure how we have managed to do it all! Those of you… read full entry »

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen while walking/driving down the road? See, being a place of interest my little village gets a lot of weirdos and other fascinating visitors… but driving home after feeding the guinea pig last night I certainly didn’t expect to see an armoured personnel carrier with tank-style tracks heading in my… read full entry »

Usually if I don’t have the time to review a script I advise people to Google for security issues. Except, with the recent problem surrounding the false reports of a login issue with my scripts, it’s becoming more and more apparent that we can’t rely on only Google. Amongst good advice (of which there is… read full entry »