Natepod The weblog of Nate Cull

25Sep/082

Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2

Because I just got hacked by something nasty. I guess staying on 2.0 was a bit of a gamble.

Seriously, guys -- and I'm talking to everyone who writes any kind of web facing software here -- if you can't release a provably 100% secure web application on day one, please do the entire Net a favour and DON'T RELEASE IT AT ALL.

That's too hard? Your tools won't allow you to prove whether your app is hackable or not? Sorry, but the bad guys don't care. They can security-test your software - why can't you?

'Apply patches' is the wrong answer. Try again.

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15Sep/088

Poem: Sideways

Time is an orange
Curls up at the edges -
So
There you see

Vacuum isn't
Kilometres
At all
It's skin

Space is an egg
Sunny side, scrambled
Boiling over the city
Any way you want it

And you could pour
Light from a jug
Onto grids of crisp
Houses

The trick
Is to wake up
Sideways

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8Sep/080

Conflicted

In my pack today:

A book called 'How To Be Good'.

A game called 'How To Host A Murder'.

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