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These entries are about my life, more-or-less. That’s why they’re so cryptic.
Boston Library Yale Safe by rpongsaj
A couple of years ago I had to open a personal/hotel-room style safe without a key. I contacted the manufacturer, thinking that just maybe, given a serial number, they could supply a new key. Instead I got complete instructions for breaking into their safes. Yay security!
I’m not sure which is dumber – that it’s so simple to open, or that they give “defeat-our-product” howtos to anyone who asks. Anyway:
Slipper, heading for the table
Hi Can anyone help me handel this URL injection ? https://www.xxx.co.uk/register.php"| grep "123" I want to detect it and header back to my index page. It's quite urgent Thanks for help
Heh. Poor guy.
I was poking around in Google Maps tonight, and discovered that the “Link” button contains a reference to the last map you looked at, as well as the current one.
Steps to replicate:
Go to http://maps.google.co.uk/ and search for “Birmingham”
Now search for “London”
Click “Link”. The link should look something like this:
If you snip out the sll attribute (52.487798,-1.893768) and feed it back into Maps, you’ll find it’s the lat/long for Birmingham, not London. I think it’s intentional, because the ll attribute points to London. I can’t see any obvious use for the sll attribute, though – there doesn’t appear to be a back button or history tool on the target page.
Not a big deal, but it could conceivably be an embarrassment to someone, some day.
I’ve had a search running on abebooks for well over a year for the word “anthropodermic”.
Yesterday, I finally got a hit from a book dealer in Texas. The book is from the library of Joseph Sadony, a 20th century mystic, and was presented to him by Fernand Angel.
“Aurora Alegre del dichoso dia de la Gracia Maria Santissima Digna Madre de Dios, Francisco Antonio de Vereo, 1727″.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. Yours for just US$16,895.
When I started in web development a few years ago I had to move to Birmingham and London to find work – the local web industry was pretty much DOA. I’m not sure why that was… possibly companies gravitated towards the fibre in Docklands and the financing in the city, or London’s pool of experienced workers was larger. Anyway, technology on the South Coast tended to be focused on defence contracting.
Today there are certainly more developers out there, but they’re not very visible – a Google search for “PHP Developer Portsmouth” throws up pages of job ads, rather than pages of local PHP developers. Other technology- and location-specific searches return similar results.
In an effort to change this, and to make the local development community a bit more “joined-up”, I’ve been collecting local developers’ blogs. I’m hopeful that in the long-term these blogs will form the core of a local web development community, but at the very least, if we talk to each other, if we’re active online and network around subjects of common interest, it will raise everyone’s profile. I know that Adam Wintle wants to do similar things over at Refresh Portsmouth, so anyone who’s keen on real-world meet-ups should talk to him.
If you’re at all interested in web development on the South Coast, please import this handy OPML file into your RSS reader, and check back for updates occasionally. Alternatively, the HTML list is after the break. If you want to be added to the list, or you know someone who should be on there, please just let me know.
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Based on the arguments summarised here, but mostly in the hopes of fostering interesting discussion, I’ve decided to turn off rel=”nofollow” on comments. The flip-side of that is that I’m going to be a lot more willing to delete comments made in bad faith.
If you don’t know what font a PSD layer originally used, if you get a yellow triangle, if you see the error “Font is missing on system and needs substitution” or “Some text layers contain fonts that are missing” (can you see I’m hitting the search terms here?) just double-click the layer to find out what the original font was called. That’s it.
I just wasted ten minutes trying to figure that one out.
Mr. & Mrs. Otton.
Wow.
Romeo & Juliet, Wordle Cloud
Apropos nothing, Wordle tagcloud for Romeo & Juliet. Click to view.
This reminds me I really need to play with Processing at some point. Too many tools, not enough time.
Still, right now I’m more concerned with getting my head round Erlang, and the new closure mechanism that’s coming in PHP 5.3 (I really, really wish they’d stop trying to shoehorn the kitchen sink in there).