Usually if I don’t have the time to review a script I advise people to Google for security issues. Except, with the recent problem surrounding the false reports of a login issue with my scripts, it’s becoming more and more apparent that we can’t rely on only Google. Amongst good advice (of which there is… read full entry »

I give up; I’m caving in because I don’t understand. What’s with the sudden surge of people relying on their age as a get-out clause for anything and everything that they see fit? If it’s not teenagers and young adults blaming their stupidity on age (“I’m only 15, I couldn’t possible know HTML properly!”) it’s… read full entry »

Back when the reviewing website ReviewMe first came out I debated with myself whether reviewing for these guys was any different to blogstitution — i.e. pay per posts and sites of that ilk. I never did make my mind up but decided that I didn’t care because I wasn’t going to take part anyway. However,… read full entry »

It has come to my attention that as the Internet fills with many, many young children, the e-tard quota rapidly increases. If you find somebody afflicted with this common problem, you’ll notice that they’re probably aged 12-15, they use 8 different colours to highlight their text (because just “bold” is obviously not enough) and assume… read full entry »

I almost feel like this entry should be extra special as it’s my 10th Pants Award, but as I’m too cold to surf I’m settling for mediocrity. FARK OATH . COM was mentioned to me because of Waks Ask & Answer. You know it by now, the terminally shite ask and answer script that I’m… read full entry »

I am probably the last person in the world to find out about this (a bit like Amber and my last post), but I was reading about some nifty Firefox shortcut tips today… open a new tab, type in just “jemjabella” in the address bar and press CTRL + Enter. See what it does?! OK,… read full entry »

I didn’t think I’d ever need to explain this because it seemed pretty obvious but a recent conversation at Snark proved otherwise… If you want to be listed in Google with your name (or any other word for that matter) you must include that name/word on your website. Search engines/spiders aren’t psychic and won’t be… read full entry »

On the 2nd of July (this year) a friend of mine received an e-mail from “Frozen Midnight, LLC” hosting. The e-mail contained threats of legal action and the involvement of local law enforcement because my friend’s account had apparently been caught breaking the Frozen Midnight terms of service. In a fluster, my friend agreed to… read full entry »

When I said a while back that I was planning on redoing my CMS, I thought it’d take me forever to even get ’round to thinking about it (partly because of workload, partly because I didn’t know what I want to do with my site). However, the surge of comments on my free t-shirt post… read full entry »

I know that when I rant about web standards and usability I am usually called a fun-spoiler or told that I think too much, but there are reasons for my annoyance at people’s disregard for compliance and any sort of basic testing and that’s because — despite being a developer; far above that even —… read full entry »