Another lazy Sunday. I helped Jamie make a pretend book for a fancy dress night at Brownies tomorrow. Finished the book I was reading. Started another one I’ve read before. My ankle’s been playing up again. Steve, Kim, and Megan came round. Steve told us all about his night at the WWE wrestling last night. That’s about it really…
I’ve finally skinned the gallery to match the blog.
I’ve also uploaded another set of test pictures taken with the Vivicam 20. These were taken on a sunny day and you can see the difference. I also discovered that the camera will hold 71 640×480 shots!
My maths must be getting really rusty because that doesn’t add up: 640 x 480 x 24-bit (3 bytes) x 71 uncompressed images comes to 62MB. That should not fit in 8MB in my book! I can only presume that they are compressed despite the manual claiming they are BMP file format!
Actor Richard Harris has died from Hodgkin’s disease. He most recently played Professor Albus Dumbledore in the first and second Harry Potter films. But also played leading roles in dozens of other great films.
The BBC has the story.
I’ve just released version 0.7 of the B2 Link Manager.
Changes are:
Added link owners. Added truncation of long urls.
Each link is owned by the user who created it. You can only edit or delete links created by you or someone with a lower b2 administration level than you.
You can find it at the usual place: http://zed1.com/b2links
Feedback, bug reports/fixes, and general comments are appreciated and should be posted on the forum.
OK. Blogger is back. It’s been back a couple of hours. I would have expected some kind of notice on the title page, explaining what had happened. But you have to check the status to see this message.
Blogger has suffered a security intrusion by a “haX0r.” We have all the data that was changed backed up within a couple hours of the attack, so we can have things pretty much back to normal soon. Of course, we’re assessing the situation as thoroughly as possible to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Also, if you store your FTP login information in Blogger, it wouldn’t hurt to change that on your server
Oops, blogger has been hacked!
By all accounts, potentially everyone’s password, email details, etc. has been compromised. This potentially includes ftp passwords into the sites hosting your blog!
The crackers managed to fill the SQL server transaction log, and then no one could make any more changes including themselves.
Thankfully the site as been taken down now, but it wasn’t until at least 1 hour after the attack.
I managed to check an old test account of mine before it went down and my password hadn’t been compromised.
It turns out that my ankle is still not healed properly. I managed to twist it on Wednesday night, which hurt quite a lot. By Thurday morning it seemed to be ok again. But by the end of Thursday it was swollen and very uncomfortable. I’ve decided not to go in the office today, as the walking distance involved would be too much.
I’ve sat with my leg raised all this morning, but I’m bored already.
I think I should probably get it x-rayed but I don’t fancy spending three hours or so hanging around in the hospital. Besides I’ll have to wait for Jan to get back.
Stan Finley has written a little piece about why we blog.
For an artist a blog can become a gallery, for a journalist, a periodical, for a writer, a daily chapter-in-the-life. The blogger knows that he is exhibiting a part of himself, and in doing so is expanding his sphere of possible social interaction. Blogging is a way of creating community. Humans are social and communicative creatures. It’s what we do.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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