Jem's field notes

I am not usually one for doing those silly memes that you frequently see scattered across the likes of LiveJournal, but I couldn’t resist taking “The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test” after seeing others’ results. It was scarily accurate. These are my results: “You chose AY – your Enneagram type is EIGHT. ” How to… read full entry »

I’m stuck. I need help to decide which of my two ‘new’ layouts I should work on further and which I should just chuck. Edit (19:49): Thank you for your help so far. An overwhelming majority picked number two (over number one) and I’ve used the comments and suggestions to come up with this: I… read full entry »

I have made some changes to the file that controls comment processing over the past two days — this should allow me to be a bit less strict with the ‘bad word’ list which means no more errors for you genuine commenters. Hopefully. Please let me know if you have any issues adding a comment…. read full entry »

I recently took a look at faqtastic, by Cine of INEXISTENT scripts, to try and figure out why a friend was repeatedly being hacked. Much to my disappointment I found several holes in the script most commonly caused by a lack of validation. It’s also jam-packed with errors (only noticeable when error_reporting() is whacked up… read full entry »

Take a quick look at a handful of teen tutorial websites and you will notice a recurring trend: code is distributed through a multitude of <textarea>s. While these are often coloured, in an attempt at creating some sort of consistent colour scheme, it is rare that the site owner has made an effort to resize… read full entry »

I was directed to pootato.org’s Dynamic Inclusion tutorial yesterday by somebody who has been using it, and as a result have been “hacked” — index page defaced as well as a fake banking website/etc put on her web space. This girl could potentially land in serious trouble, depending on how forgiving her hosts are, because… read full entry »

With the current surge in “hackings” (or rather: script kiddies exploiting known holes to deface websites that don’t support their view on the war) I’ve been going through a lot of scripts to find common and easy to fix vulnerabilities. With my fingers crossed, and perhaps a naive hope that people don’t release scripts with… read full entry »

If there’s one thing I love about a movie, a book or a website it’s something which keeps my attention, and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown certainly does that. Never have I read a book before that literally grabs my attention to the point where I don’t want to move; forgetting about eating,… read full entry »

For the first time in about a year, I’ve had a new review done by Rhiannon of PetShopGirl’s Reviews. Have a read, it’s good! Feel free to expand on any ideas that have been suggested. I wouldn’t mind some suggestions for other reviewers/reviewing websites too — it’s been ages since I’ve had site reviews done…. read full entry »

I decided I should treat myself for getting a new job, and bought a pre-owned Nintendo DS today. It wasn’t a bad price, and the console is in reasonable condition (the case is a bit scuffed but the screens are top notch, which is what matters). I bought the New Super Mario Bros game which… read full entry »