Yearly Archives: 2009

Renault F1 team admit race-fixing charge

News just in is that Flavio Briatore, boss of the Renault F1 team has resigned his position, with the team deciding not to contest Nelson Piquet Jr’s allegation that he was told to crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Frankly I’m amazed. This will be a big blow to the team, and doesn’t really [...]

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A disturbing turn of events

It comes to something when I find myself agreeing with Esther Rantzen, but on the new rules for registering people giving lifts to children, I am in that exact position. This is a continuation of a slippery slope of suspicion against adults that is growing way out of proportion. Fever over peadophilia has been whipped [...]

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Baby Niamh

I don’t often do posts about me on here, but for this I should make an exception. Baby Niamh was born to us last Saturday 8/8/09 at 5:58 am. She was 7lb 10. We’ve had her for a week now. She is currently sleeping whilst we wait for her grandparents to arrive. So here I [...]

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WordPress 2.8.3 released

WordPress 2.8.3 has been released as a security-related recommended upgrade. The changes fix some loopholes that allowed direct access to a few WordPress include files. Everyone is advised to upgrade their copies as soon as. (Remember with newer versions you can generally use the auto-upgrade functionality especially if your host uses PHP5.)

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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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