The Australian Government’s Classification board website has been hacked. The text:
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Somebody Think of the Children.
A bit juvenile? Nos. Not particularly helpful? Sure. Illegal? Yup.
But I can’t help but have a leetle soft spot lurking in my heart for humorous, non-destructive civil disobedience in the face of bulldozing authoritarianism.
After tinkering with other bits of code that could have been interfering, I turned the Bad Behavior spam blocker software back on. I didn’t receive any perturbed emails or Facebook comments, so I’m hoping that nobody had any troubles seeing the site yesterday. If you did have troubles, now’s the time to tell me, as my current plan is to turn it back on before I go to bed tonight.
A useful cautionary tale in general: if you use computers that other people are logged in to to leave comments on the internet then their default settings can make you look bad. Wendy Harmer: You owe an apology for this accusation that a blogger maliciously changed your name on comments you left on her blog. She did nothing of the sort. Let me explain to you what really happened, , and show you how to make sure that it doesn’t happen to you again. It was your own actions and omissions that led to than display-name showing up on the blog.
I love a story that brings a smile to the face! The West reports that my local breastmilk bank, the Perron Rotary Express Milk Bank, has seen 830 litres of milk go through its doors since it started in August… Read More ›
If you can’t access the blog you should still be able to read this. (If you’re seeing this on the blog, you’re not experiencing the problem this techy bugfix post is addressing, so please feel free to ignore.)
I’ve just installed Bad Behavior to combat spammers. Very occasionally it blocks legitimate users as well,
Okay, I’m about to do a few upgrade things with the blog. I’ll aim to get them done quickly and easily without mucking too many things up, but who knows?
Tech Kittehs Ahoy! Runnerup: Training fur duty on teh International Space Station Post your own favourite cheez o’ t’ week here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. [Please post a link to a full page, rather… Read More ›
A new meme! Using one of the tips from this handy Lifehacker post (Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – it’s recommended as a way to find music/movies etc that you might like based on a musician/film you already like) I plugged in a few different search terms to Google to see what came up (although as I am a poliblogger with a shriveled husk of a heart, I tweaked the search in order to more likely find the pol-abuse) .
Seeing as Facebook has decided to claim that they own rights to any content on a website that has a “click to share on Facebook” style button, nearly everybody will be removing that particular button ASAP
OK, a selection from the last week of memorable and topical posts. There’s quite a few links, so I’m putting them behind a cut so as not to clutter up the front page of the blog. Add your own links to posts you recommend in comments:
Hoyden About Town 