Writing

ShinyHunters found exploitable PeopleSoft servers by scanning the internet for reachable instances. With no fix available until after the attacks began, exposure determined the victims.

Everyone is quoting the DBIR's headline stat about vulnerability exploitation. The findings that should change how you prioritise are further in.

What a magician's toolkit can teach you about keeping attackers away from what matters.

Things that I find make things better when working with colleagues

Managing all your notes as markdown

Creating a list of installed software and their version numbers

After a long break, I'm back!

Hardwiring a dashcam to a 2018 Skoda Fabia

An attempt at building one-handed chording keyboard

An attempt at building one-handed chording keyboard

An attempt at building a chording keyboard

An attempt at building a chording keyboard

Problems I had, and how I made static copies of my wordpress sites

How I migrated my website from Wordpress to Eleventy

PowerShell and Excel RemoveDuplicates

A high-level description of public key cryptography

Certutil.exe - Undocumented Switches

Private Key Compromise

Removing the sidebar from ShutterShot Wordpress Theme

Hotspot Shield VPN

Creating Multiple Outlook Distribution Lists from Excel

Forcing a Jellybean 4.2.2 update for Nexus 7

Pure Gym Classes

Migrate a guest OS to a new datastore in ESXi 5.1

My diet 6 months in

Installing Photoshop CS2 on Windows 7 64-bit

How to move from Instagram to Flickr

16 weeks of dieting

Wireless adapter problems on Acer Laptop after November 2012 Microsoft Update (Windows 8)

A playlist for running

Tunes - converting from Music to Books

6 weeks of dieting

my1login.com First Impressions

Unique Memorable Passwords

The take-anywhere Password Manager

LP-E6 Charging Problem and solution

13 steps to an antique phone case

Creating an SSL certificate - step by step

Edinburgh Castle and the Hub, Edinburgh

Burg Wächter Point Safe P2E Safe Review

Union Canal Wallpaper

Edinburgh Skyline Wallpaper

My new Workstation spec

Intermittent Virgin Media sync problems and solution

Confessions of a Public Speaker - Scott Berkun

Sony PRS-505 Review

Fixing the power button on Toshiba Regza Television (DIY)

Wordpress Visual Editor buttons missing and solution

Damage to EX300 light kit

How to downgrade from an expired VMWare vSphere evaluation to the free version to allow you to continue administering your virtual machines.

Tunes 10 - Installation problem and solution

Certification Authorities (CAs) offer two types of SSL certificate, but which should you use?

Android on three.co.uk

Domain Renewal Scam

IndywoodFILMS presents 'Invasion Of The NOT QUITE Dead' teaser promo...

Time Travellers

Rich_Dyson invited me to join him taking some long exposure photos of the Edinburgh Winter Festival in Princes Street Gardens.

Chomp! The new Zombie musical! The cast rocked the Royal Mile tonight - definately worth seeing this festival.

Twitter.com is currently down. Status.twitter.com reports that they are currently fighting a DDOS attack.

My second attempt at a chain-maille bracelet - trying out new patterns.

Moo mini-cards

I successfully made a bunch of jump rings from 0.8mm Silver plated copper wound by hand. Read on to find out how I got the blister on my finger!

My top-ten must do things for your visit to Edinburgh!

I'm getting healthy food sent to me by graze.com. This is supposed to make me healthier, but now I don't even need to walk as far as the vending machine!

-A solution to the problem of installing Vista using an OEM product key when you don't have the OEM installation disk. Use a borrowed full retail disk and these instructions instead.

Wordpress 2.8.2 fixes a nasty Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in comments.

Blogging in the real world

WordPress 2.8.1

Chainmaking tools ordered

My new hobby - Chainmaille Jewelery

Filmmaker Antony Lane is attempting to revolutionize the way films are funded here in the UK, by putting some life back into an almost dead film industry.

A quick note on amending the template files for the Wordpress 'Now Reading' plug-in to work with the LightWord theme.

I'm sometimes ashamed to walk through Edinburgh's graveyards because of the state of disrepair they have fallen in to over the past few years.