I’ve just installed a new fea­ture on the blog. You can now find a ran­dom image from the gal­lery in the left hand side bar. You will get a dif­fer­ent one each time you reload the page.
I got the script from Jeff Barca-Hall.
Note: The script will also dis­play images from Gra­ham and Thom’s galleries.

That Microsoft SQL Server worm has a name now: Sap­phire. eEye Digital Secur­ity has an ana­lysis. SQL Sap­phire Worm Ana­lysis.
I’ve been lucky so far. There’s not so much as a peep on my fire­wall logs. Then again, I’m on a domestic broad­band net­work, so the likely hood of it get­ting to my part of the net is less than some areas. My (linux based) host­ing ser­vice hasn’t been affected either, and, by implic­a­tion, neither has any­where on the route between here and there.

I’ve added a graph of blog post­ing times over the last 30 days to the bot­tom of the page. It’s updated every hour. Thanks to Matt for the heads up and to San­jay for the code.

The BBC have picked up on the story now Virus-like attack hits web traffic

In South Korea inter­net ser­vices were shut down nation­wide for hours on Sat­urday, the country’s Yon­hap news agency repor­ted.
Users and news media also repor­ted out­ages or slow­downs in Thai­l­and, Japan, Malay­sia, the Phil­ip­pines and India.