I’ve got the day off work tomorrow, so if there’s something I’ve been promising you or something that I’d said I’d do, now’s the time to remind me so I can get some things crossed off the list in the coming weeks before Christmas. Hopefully this’d give me a bit of a fresh slate to… read full entry »

I can exclusively reveal that the BBC website editors have a serious addiction problem. This news may come as a shock to some, but I know a few who’ve noticed the dramatic increase over the years. It’s a serious case of infatuation with the single quotation mark (or his twin brother, the apostrophe, whichever way… read full entry »

I underestimated the amount of submissions so I’ll post a few links over the week :) First: Ad Tracker (#) and Louise (#)

I’ll link to the website of the person who submits the best caption in my sidebar (Asides)… In other news: there is no other news. I’ve been working on tutorialtastic all weekend, including adding the rate functionality I talked about in my last TT post.

It seems almost ironic that just the other day I was ranting about Tesco’s seemingly mediocre approach to password security, and today we hear that Tesco online store ‘is infiltrated by insider card fraudster’. Customers shopping at Britain’s biggest Internet store — Tesco Direct — are feared to have had their card details stolen by… read full entry »

When I posted my somewhat whimsical entry “Not The X!” on Monday I was under the impression that teenybopper tutorial sites were becoming less common. I figured there was a new trend out, maybe these wannabe geeks had all gained new hobbies or something. Of course, this is the part where I admit grand naivety… read full entry »

I was going to announce this yesterday but the idea of letting off some steam about plain text passwords was much more appealing and so I didn’t. I think that says a lot about me as a person actually, how sad. Anyway, I’ve put in a lot of work during the evenings of this week… read full entry »

Update 31st July 2012: Welcome, new visitors from The Register, Information Age, etc. If you like this post, you may also like my related posts on security. I am a PHP web dev with an interest in scripting, security (XSS, SQL injection etc) and WordPress. If you’d like to work with me, get in touch…. read full entry »

Playing with Hex this evening, I managed to take this shot: That’s some teeth he’s got there! And people wonder why Karl wears the glove for protection…

Some chick called “Safire” has republished my Safe Dynamic Includes snippet on her tutorial site. (Fingers in mouth gagging here; I thought people had stopped creating these lame tutorial sites.) Alongside the code is the advice that, in normal dynamic includes “it’s just the x= that makes it unsafe“, and swapping this letter for a… read full entry »