Jem's field notes

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 »

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.

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 »

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 »

I’ve been feeling a little bit rough this week, if not from the icy cold weather we seem to having all of a sudden then plain old tiredness. A combination of later nights, Hex waking me up at the crack of dawn and the everlasting darkness at the time of year all contributing to my… read full entry »

I was reading some story on the BBC website earlier about how 8 out of 10 women don’t exercise enough. Apparently this is because they’re all obsessed with being thin and looking beautiful. Er, does anyone see the failure in this logic? Surely by keeping a regular exercise pattern a woman is more likely to… read full entry »

I have finally got of my butt and updated tutorialtastic. I mean, it’s only taken about 6 months and all. The new layout is very deliberately web 2.0. Stripes, gradients, little pixel icons.. you name it, it’s in there! I’ve not even finished yet, but if I don’t get it uploaded it’ll be one of… read full entry »