If you haven’t heard the news, S&P just downgraded us from AAA to AA+ and gave us a negative outlook to add insult to injury. But it’s not like we didn’t deserve it. In a democracy, people deserve the government they get. Remember that “We the people…” document? Well we the people just got a […]
August 5, 2011 | Economics | No comments
News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Click here to learn more. On the suggestion of Matt Mullenweg (wordpress founder) Ben Gillbanks (timthumb author) and I have been working for the last day to merge my work on WordThumb into TimThumb 2.0. That work is now complete […]
UPDATE: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. The latest version of wordthumb (just uploaded) uses a public cache again (same place timthumb does) because many system temporary folders are not writeable. This public cache is part of what […]
UPDATE: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. Just for fun I added the ability to take screenshots of any website to WordThumb. You can even apply all the image manipulation and filters that it supports for regular images […]
Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now. Update 3 (Final): WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. Update 2: WordThumb can now take screenshots of websites for […]
August 4, 2011 | Security, TimThumb, Wordpress | No comments
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has unleashed the rest of his tanks on Syrian protesters. Russia is warning that the country is veering towards all out civil war. Besides being politically two faced, al-Assad has an unusually asymmetric face. So I thought I’d break out both faces and rejoin them into these:
August 3, 2011 | Politics | No comments
Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now. UPDATE: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. As I mentioned yesterday my WordPress blog was hacked. The security hole […]
August 2, 2011 | Hacker News, Security, TimThumb, Wordpress | 8 comments
Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now. Update: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. Update 4: I’ve also added the ability to screenshot websites to […]
This will improve your day. Metric – Gold Guns Girls. Have an awesome week!!
July 31, 2011 | Music | No comments
I grew up in South Africa and for a time my birth country was the only worthwhile stop on the long sea journey that spice traders would make from Europe to India and back. South Africa was colonized by Europeans for this reason. A guy called Jan Van Riebeeck was ordered to set up camp […]