This is why WordPress.com strips Javascript from posts. The potential for devilment is limitless without filtering!
Bush Left Behind
Via Yahoo News.. this perfectly composed photo of the US President:
(AFP/File/Paul Richards)
The Lobby Bar lives on … elsewhere
Donal posted that the The Lobby Bar will host a series of music events at the Half Moon Theatre. Looks like a couple of good gigs too!
I took an amazing photo of their front door 2 weeks ago. No it’s not amazing, it’s only a front door. *shrug*
WordPress PHP validator
Hmm, this PHP validator could be a very useful start to creating a safe template editor for WordPress.
Justin's Running on WordPress!
Justin Mason’s site is now running on WordPress, and umm, has been since August 22nd.
Oops, thought I visited there more often!
First Post!
It’s the cry that gets up everyone’s goat on online forums, especially slashdot, but Eric setiawan runs First Post where he blogs about people’s first posts.
My first post got that treatment today, going all the way back to 1998. A lot has happened since!
Ajax Mistakes
Ajax Mistakes – just don’t ajaxify everything please!
Writing Scalable Applications with PHP
Linux Journal’s Writing Scalable Applications with PHP article makes a bold claim which some of the comments on it disagree with. Must follow some of the links later.
Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers
Unicef bombed the Smurf village in a new ad campaign to raise money. This has been doing the rounds for a few days and as one Metafilter userpointed out, “what’s sadder, bombed smurfs…or the fact that people are so unfased by bombed people that we have to resort to bombed smurfs…news at 11”.
Says something about our “caring” society.
SQL Injection Attacks by Example
Ever wondered how some of your favourite apps get hacked and broken into? This page lists lots of examples of database “injections”.
Like an injection you get off your doctor these bits of code inject database code into your application. The code can do anything – delete all your data, grab your passwords, or anything.
And if it happens to you, a nice doctor isn’t going to give you a lollipop.