Monthly Archives: July 2009

Upgrade your copy now…

There seems to be growing evidence that the XSS vunerability in versions of WordPress before 2.8.2 is now being exploited for real in the wild. The manifestation seems to be that, after recieving a maliciously-crafted comment, affected blogs display a login panel Title: Authentication Required Text: The server (yourserver) at Magic requires a username and [...]

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Schumacher to return to F1

Retired F1 legend Michael Schumacher looks set to return to behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 car for the European Grand Prix as a stand-in for the injured Felipe Massa, who was knocked unconcious by a spring in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying. Schumacher will now undergo a preparation exercise (though no F1 car practice) [...]

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Nice things are bad

More nannying today as we are told that Iced coffees are bad. Some of them apparently contain over five hundred calories. Arrgh! Of course they contain a lot of calories, they’re a rich, sweet, treat. How is this news? The charity behind the figures is telling us that we should avoid the sweet, sugary flavours [...]

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Cheap Plastic Stuff – Alien Egg

A progress update on the hatching alien egg can be found here. As cheap plastic stuff goes, this one isn’t going to win any awards from me.

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School proposes clip-on ties

Oh dear lord. McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster has proposed a move to clip-on ties for their kids for “safety reasons”. Apparently, there is a concern that kids might be strangled by ties that get caught up in “something”. Hmm. Funny, kids have been wearing real ties to schools for, what, hundreds of years [...]

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