Caption This

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.


Passwords at Tesco Not The Issue

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 »


Turdy Tutorials and XOXMARIAH.COM

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 »


tutorialtastic: new features and functionality

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 »

Plain Text Passwords at Tesco

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 »

Karl Under Attack

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…


Not the X!

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 »

BellaBiblio Error

An unfinished copy of BellaBiblio somehow got online. If you downloaded it by accident please replace it with the older copy until the new release is finished.


A Post About Karl

I had no idea what to blog about but — not wanting to break my record and the run I’ve been having because of NaBloPoMoLoDoFo (or you know, whatever) — the girls at Snark (i.e. Rachael and Aisling) suggested I post about Karl. So, here are 5 things you may not have known about Karl… read full entry »

Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2

After the hours Karl and I spent cracking our ribs laughing at the various hilarious scenes in Raving Rabbids for the Wii — the game that got Karl playing with a console for the first time in years — I decided to invest in Raving Rabbids 2. I have to say that it was a… read full entry »