Random Musings - Day #131

A is for...
Funny game, my sister came up with whilst in the car. Go through A-Z of food-types. For some reason, we kept coming up with animals instead... e.g. Dog, Frog, Llama, Orangutan!

Engineering works
I was annoyed on Saturday that there was engineering works to work. I lost 30 minutes waiting for a replacement bus. Another 15 minutes waiting at one station and another 20 minutes waiting at another one. So that sucked over an hour of my life away.
But engineering works weren't done yet. They were overrunning and hence this morning, my train was cancelled. Another half hour of my life... gone!

Mashup
If I haven't mentioned it before but this is a great mashup of Need you tonight.

Javascript is your friend
You can write text using fromCharCode. Very useful, if your quotation marks are escaped and you need to bypass it (cough). There is a comprehensive list of charcodes. Javascriptkit offers additional string functions.

Google hacked / Cassie naked?
I was looking for more details about Google getting hacked instead I got Cassie getting naked...
Seriously though, there was a universal xss issue with ALL google services which looks like has just been fixed.

Acai Berry Scam
It's the second time, I've got a random offline message from a contact.

I got so many messages about those acai berry pills that I decided to order them and guess what? I lost 23 pounds so far and its only been two weeks. I am living proof that they work and best part was, they only cost me five dollars to try over at http://weekcome.com

I've not seen anything specific relating to ads in msn messenger... The actual pills themselves are apparently a rip-off!
The Wicked Fire hints the problem could with account being hacked. This blog claims it's a msn virus of some description...

Whatever happened to...
90's divas, Dina Carroll and Shola Ama?

Random Musings - Day #73

Confidence Trickster
There has been a spate of mobile insurance frauds. About 10 companies have been involved cold-calling punters selling mobile insurance. The trick is that the fraudsters have bought new mobile phones and dial up numbers similar to their own. Chances the number are new. So they claim they are the mobile operator or from the shop they bought the phone, offering cheap insurance.
Always be careful when you get cold calls and cold emails. Don't give out details. In fact, ask to phone back!

Dating Review
Stumbled upon this dating agency review.

Shell Tidbit
Here's a nice little tutorial that I found for generating numbers from a for-loop in a unix shell.

Windows Tidbits
1. The old IIS unicode exploit!
2. How to restrict access to the registry from a remote computer.
3. How to prevent Windows from storing a LAN manager hash of your password in Active Directory and local SAM databases.