Anything and everything vaguely internet related. Blogging, industry, social media: if you can find it online, I've talked about it in here.
It annoys me when I browse the Internet and see teen “web designers” in various forums complaining that they’ve had various “blends” or supposed “original artwork” stolen from them. Said artwork usually contains a sloppily edited celebrity photograph, a few dodgy Photoshop™ brushes or textures, with a few illegally downloaded (yet usually expensive) fonts chucked… read full entry »
I was updating my qbee quilt last night and it got me thinking: it’s the only online ‘thing’ that I’ve ever really stuck to. I’ve been and gone at forums, often forgetting my login names or forgetting they even exist.. never sticking to affiliate/surfing programs and heaven knows what else. Yet, here I am, a… read full entry »
I’ve been thinking about this PHP style switcher business, as well as what I’m going to do with BellaBook3.1 to get it safe and secure, ready for release. I have been trying to figure out the best way to have this PHP styleswitcher without disturbing browsing. I *think* because it’s a server-side language it is… read full entry »
To those who brought it up, yes I am aware that the site loads ‘plain’ (without colour) when you first visit if you’ve not seen the new layouts before. This is to do with the cookies in the JavaScript style switcher, at a guess. Anyway, to get past this simply refresh or choose a theme… read full entry »
In a way this post is mislabeled, because it’s not really WordPress and more a case of badly set permissions.. Anyway, to get to the point: I’ve been to several weblogs today based on WordPress which have been exploited because of dodgy set permissions. Unfortunately at the time I’ve had several websites open generally and… read full entry »
I was going to take part in the 2005 National Novel Writing Month but dropped out a week into November after realising I had far too much on (what with job apps, etc.) and yet have still been receiving the NaNoWriMo e-mails: I’m too lazy to untick a box on the appropriate page. Anyway, I… read full entry »
If you’re using FA-PHPHosting, PHPClique, PHPCalendar, PHPCurrently, PHPFanBase or PHPQuotes there’s security risks that need to be addressed. You can find more information on Amelie’s website. I knew I spotted something dodgy with phpFanBase about mid-October, when I spent so much time staring at it helping Ang.nu to convert. I e-mailed the creator and never… read full entry »
You know, it’d be really nice if when someone steals my images and chunks of my CSS, they’d at least make the effort to do something nice or creative with them instead of just renaming the image to something slightly different and taking my site name out of my shitty link button. She even copied… read full entry »
I have to confess that when I create a new fanlisting, copying and pasting an existing hand-made admin page is easier than completely re-writing what will basically be the same thing with a few changes. So having just copied and renamed the mayo admin page for my new fanlisting, Pigeon Guano, I did a generic… read full entry »
Karl’s ISP has had a boob-moment and has, for some absurd reason, banned Jemjabella.co.uk, Site5.com and any website hosted at Site5.com. It also seems to have blocked any website starting with the IP 212.* It’s bloody infuriating because I can’t access my e-mail, ftp, etc. I’m at my Mum’s at the moment.. The main problem… read full entry »