• Skeleton

    I fixed up the skeleton that I made for a cupboard at the wonderful Forest House Hotel in Coleford, yesterday. I made it a couple of years ago for fun.

    When you open the door the eyes light up and the arms and legs move. Children love it so much, they finally broke the strings, so I had to go and fix them up again.

    I couldn’t remember how I had arranged things. There were a number of complicated ways I thought I could have done it. Then I remembered I had found a really simple system. It didn’t need much movement. Just a little was enough – after all, no one knows what to expect when the open the cupboard.

  • My site has been under attack from evil so and sos, who want to turn it into a fake PayPal site for those poor people who open those fake emails that ask for passwords. It seems that the software I had been using for my blog has become very attackable. So I have decided to run my blog on WordPress.org, where I don’t have to be responsible for all the updating a security.

    Sadly, this means I have to start from scratch. I may go through the files I have and see if it’s worth reposting. It would be an enormous job so don’t hold your breath. Im in a, “…sorry for your loss – now move on!” mood at the moment. I hope the rest of the site is working fine. That is built with Rapidweaver, which is renowned for producing nice, clean code.

  • I’ve had couple of suspicious goings on on my website this year then, on Monday, Damian Harvey emailed me to let me know my site had been hacked. The homepage showed some juvenile nonsense obviously put togehter by some spotty youth with nothing better to do with his life.

    I sorted it out, but soon he was back even though I had changed passwords, which meant that he had to have a backdoor into my site. I feel I can’t trust anything on my site, so I’ve wiped it clean and I’m rebuilding it with new clean files.

    If he gets in easly again, then I suspecvt my ISP has a back door to my site and I’ll be very cheesed off.

    It’s such a waste of time and makes me realise how vulnerable the net really is. We are putting the whole of western civilisation into a monoculture that will eventually be so prone to a virus thaat will spread through the net wiping out site after site – a sort of swine flu of the net. If it happens, we are stuffed! I give it two years.