Site Spring Cleaning

I have spent nearly every night this week procrastinating going back through old entries to tidy up typos, remove dead links and tag where necessary. I am now going through the “Just Blogged” threads on various forums so that the links point to accurate URLs rather than 404s. Of course, sense would say that it’d… read full entry »


XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet

Those of you interested in coding and programing — specifically those of you who are dabbling with releasing your own scripts — are probably already aware of my lengthy rambles on sanitising input data, not trusting anything, etc etc. However, where I leave you to discover the nuances of individual language security on your own,… read full entry »

Premature Packing

After the last time Karl and I moved, I vowed not to leave the packing until the day before again. True to my word, I started packing things up at the weekend and did a little more today as I was off work with a funny tum. So far, I have packed about 4-5 boxes… read full entry »


Feedburner ‘sploded?

What the bloody hell has gone wrong with Feedburner? I logged in yesterday to try and figure out why my feed subscriber count had dropped from 561 (highest it’s ever been) to two hundred and something, to see a notice from Google about the whole shebang moving over to feedburner.google.com. “Click here to move your… read full entry »

I Got a Flickr

As much as I promised myself I never would — because I have web space, why not use it? — I got a flickr the other day to view some friends-only photos, and then actually uploaded some pictures today. I suck, I know. It was just too much hassle to finish off the gallery script… read full entry »

Cute New Bag

I bought myself a new bag for my birthday earlier this month, but only realised this week that I was yet to blog about it (of course you all want to read every minute detail of my life). I’m not really a girly “bag” person and so the fact that I now have three(!) shames… read full entry »


Furry Friday: Zippy the Pig

Another guest Furry Friday this week, courtesy of my little sister’s female guinea pig “Zippy”. “Wheep wheep!”


Sorry for the Downtime

My apologies if you came to the site earlier and found it unavailable. The server I am on was down for over 7 hours this morning. It’s annoying, and sad. It’s sad, because I had over 2 years of fantastic uptime from Site5, they moved me to a new server last year and now I… read full entry »

We’re Moving (Again)

Karl and I have been living at our current address for 12 months, as of the end of February. Looking through our tenancy agreement a couple of weeks ago, I found a clause. This clause was staring right at me, and I can’t believe that I hadn’t noticed — or had decided to deal with… read full entry »

3,460,000 People Missing an Opportunity

As a NoScript user (for the sake of speed and security), I’m sick of seeing the words ‘Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting‘ so out of interest I did a little Googling. Surprise surprise: Results 1 – 10 of about 3,460,000 for “Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support… read full entry »