Archive for April, 2006

This picture may tell a thousand words where The Google AdSense Team will utter not a one. So far I’ve had no response from a human concerning my lost revenue from valid clicks.

The irony may be, I found The AdSense Insider by clicking through a Google ad on here!

See also: Sellout posted 1st November 2005

The conjuring discussion regarding security checking on the WordPress wp-hackers mailing list and my subsequent testing have revealed a serious security flaw in Liberated WordPress 1.5.2, the software that runs this blog.

The flaw allows anyone I trust to post drafts, to make a draft post containing images with appropriately forged source hrefs, to subsequently destroy the entire contents of the blog when an administrator views the draft, with no interaction required.

In other words, an automatic nuclear bomb.

Fortunately, the only person entrusted to write posts on this blog is me, so unless I decide to nuke myself, I’m pretty safe. On the other hand, knowing my blog could vapourise at any time gives me the willies. I can’t wait for someone else to issue a repair.

I’m going to have to fix this one all by myself.

Continue reading ‘Repairing Liberated WordPress 1.5.2’ »

Elegant, perfect and eternal.

Continue reading ‘The Windows® Way – Still Good’ »

It’s the same philosophy, honest! It just takes account of evolution.

The Unix Philosophy, circa 1970, the one we all know and love:

$everything is a file_

Continue reading ‘The Unix Philosophy – Update’ »

stu nicholls | CSS PLaY | experimenting with cascading style sheets

JavaScript beware! Stu Nicholls is the Grim Reaper, CSS his scythe.

Dear Igor et. al,

PAY ATTENTION! YOU ARE IN TROUBLE. YOU ARE BREAKING BRITISH LAW.

For some time now, you and others like you have been attempting to use my blog to sell drugs. The drugs you sell are available only by prescription in the UK which is where I am based. Your attempts to sell drugs only available by prescription through my blog is breaking British law, or worse, asking me to break it for you. so YOU MUST STOP.

My blog has a readership which includes children, my own in particular. Was it your childhood dream to make a living pushing pills to kids, Igor?

May I help you do something better with your life?

Yours sincerely,

Paul Mitchell a.k.a Libertus, Sheffield, UK

There are people in the world who have never even seen a computer.
There are people in the world who have seen computers but have no idea how to use them.
These people are all over the world, of all ages, all cultures and all creeds.
They know no boundaries but one.
They are barred from here.
The internet.
Technology.

Imagine being barred from something so powerful, so wonderful, so easy because of something as simple as a keyboard, mouse and monitor. And it’s your fault for being stupid.

How would that make you feel?

Thus begins a revolution.

Libertus winks at Bellman and Cornz.

Continue reading ‘World Wide Well-Established House of Accredited Technical Experts & Professional Association of Computer Instruction Specialists’ »