{mosimage}"Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House ? is a children's book dedicated to Helping Your Child Understand the Stay-At-Home Server.



At first we snarked at this over-the-top marketing propaganda. But then it made us crap our pants with laughter."



Oh Microsoft ... how low can you go ?

Check out this very cool art display, depicted a bunch of Darth Vader helmets, that have been "tricked out" / transformed into works of arts, in their own right.

Wishing you all a very Happy and Safe Christmas.

We wish that all your dreams come true over the holiday season. We wish you more presents than bugs in your favourite software. We also wish you a Happy New Year.

{mosimage}This morning I was woken up around 6am not by my boss, but GoDaddy. It seems that one of my domains, PBDB.net - Australia's Premier Paintball Database site, was being used in a phishing scam.



After rubbing the crust from my eyes and looking at the email GoDaddy had sent me, I determined that the phishers / hackers / script kiddies had used an exploit in Joomla, the content management system I'm using for PBDB. I was a version behind, because when I last tried to update it, Joomla suffered from the same problems as other CMS's suffer - poor upgradeability and hence was in version-limbo.



Anyway, back to this morning. Whilst GoDaddy were in my ear about shutting my site down permanently, I told them I had deleted the offending directory, which pleased them and GoDaddy then wished me to have a nice day. As if.



There are lessons to be learnt here. 1) Keep your software up to date OR 2) Get better software, which means I should spend more time working on Depot.