If you use a WordPress site, either as a visitor or owner, you’re using code that Alex King, one of the original developers of WordPress, worked on. He passed away after fighting cancer for 2 years but his online presence lives on in the form of his blog with it’s deep archive of posts going back years, and in so much code that it’s humbling to look at his projects page. Looking through the svn log of WordPress trunk shows he still had a hand in helping the WordPress project until relatively recently: trunk$ svn log|grep alexkingorg props alexkingorg for […]
WordPress
WP Super Cache 1.4.5
WP Super Cache is a fast caching plugin for WordPress. It will help your site run faster and serve more traffic. This is a security and bugfix release. Some servers display a directory index when no index.html is found in a directory. That may reveal the filenames of cache files. There were issues in the settings page that might allow an attacker to browse or delete files named index.html. PHP Object Injection could occur if an attacker managed to inject malicious code into the legacy cache meta files. When you upgrade, your “legacy cache” files for logged in users will […]
Tech
Sky obviously never check their customer surveys
Someone used my gmail address when they signed up for Sky Television. They must have lots of spare time and money to burn as they’re getting the “Variety with Sports & Movies” package at 83 Euro a month. Yikes. I filled in the Sky customer survey a few times but they appear to have been ignored. One more time then. Their emails aren’t really helpful, but Gmail does somehow know how to unsubscribe from Sky emails. I’ve sent Sky a reply telling them they have the wrong email for this account. Updates in the comments if I hear back from […]
Podcasts
A Conversation with Penn Jillette
This interview with Penn Jillette of “Penn & Teller” fame is fascinating. He really hates psychics, but he loves magic. There’s a world of difference.
Health
Why the hell is sitting so bad for us?
The numbers are scary. Sitting really seems to be bad if the observational studies and meta analysis studies are to be believed. Sitting for lengthy periods of time contributes to all sorts of nasty diseases like cancers and heart disease. It’s a wonder I’ve reached this age at all! It doesn’t matter how much you exercise, it has no effect on how bad sitting is for you. You’re better off getting up and walking around for 2 minutes every half hour or hour than doing that intensive hour of walking in the morning. (damn) And the findings were sobering: Every […]