Mark's Blog

For most of you today is a normal Wednesday like any other. However, for me and a few others around the world I’m sure it’s birthday celebration time.

Another year has passed and I’m now the grand old tiresome age of 2⁴ + 1. How exciting . It does mean, however, that I can now legally ride the phantasmagoria of nuts and bolts that is the Honda VT125C Shadow .

As an aside, if there is anybody out there that is interested in purchasing a Peugeot “mobility scooter” V-Clic do let me know . Despite my constant ribbing about its speed it is a very nice runner and would suit somebody who wants a little runabout to learn on. One careful owner, never been dropped , so reasonable offers (ie. not 10p or multiples thereof ) please . Delivery also may be possible for a certain surcharge, contact me for more details.

Dear Lazyweb,

Does anybody know of a (decent) password manager for Windows? My current system isn’t completely effective and frankly I’m bored of copying and pasting passwords so integration with Firefox et al. is a must. 5 points to the best recommendation.

On a wider note, what do you use to manage passwords? I’m assuming that you aren’t using your pet’s name for everything of course…

Much thanks .

It’s the obligatory time where I shake hands with the WordPress install here and pass some tender loving care its way via the means of an upgrade!

WordPress 2.7.1 has been released so if you have a blog take my initiative and get upgradin’ .

Of course, goes without saying but if you do notice any quirks do let me know via the contact form .

Another milestone clocked up for spammers across the world as the phpBB3 GD CAPTCHA has been officially cracked, causing an explosion of extra spam registrations and posts that most phpBB3 owners haven’t seen thus far. Unfortunately it was only a matter of time before the spammers’ automated tools were tailored to be able to read the phpBB3 CAPTCHA; however if you are keeping up with phpBB development you would have seen some interesting improvements going into trunk for 3.0.5 that hopefully will help with this spammer plague that we all seem to have come down with.

In another spammer experiment I’ve added another phpBB3 board with the GD CAPTCHA enabled on its default setting to the rotation script that governs which honeypot the spammers get sent to. The CAPTCHA settings are the same ones that are distributed with the phpBB (3.0.4) download package (GD set to on, foreground noise set to off, and X and Y noise set to 25).

Of course, I’d love nothing more than to present all of you with the opportunity to use bbProtection however we aren’t quite at that stage yet. However, now would be a great time to lend us a hand by contributing to our ongoing “bbProtection Needs You” campaign; more information available on that over at the bbProtection Blog .