The Grinding Shed: Alexander - Viewing Profile

Because god forbid we neglect to discuss it.

Fear sells, doesn't it? I mean, I get that we should be sensible to limit its spread, and that it can be dangerous to vulnerable people, but you'd think it was the zombie apocalypse or something.

Have you got COVID-19? If so, did you wash your hands before typing your reply?

Guys, I've turned off new registrations. We were getting multiple spam signups every day - by humans, I can only assume as the Captcha is fucking impossible to figure out.

If you're reading this and want an account, email me at admin at akpcep dot com and I will sort you out.

I'd be interested to know what you do for a living. You don't have to post personally identifiable info, just the general industry you work in.

Do you enjoy it?

Do you have a "job" or a "career"? What do you think the difference is?

I've worked in the world of the Web for the last 15 years and although I started off as a programmer I'm now a company director. Operations Director, in fact. So now I mostly do project management and manage people. It's OK. Definitely a career, I would say.

So I just listened to the audiobook of this.

At first I was disappointed about the lack of large seabound birds, but then I realised it was the autobiography of Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue.

Key takeaways:

1) Motley Crue were a bunch of dicks
2) Heroin is a bad scene, man
3) It took Mr Sixx until he was about 58 years old to actually find happiness, which is kind of sad.

Likely none of you noticed, but the FP got hacked today. It's now repaired. Le sigh.

Although I've run security and penetration tests on the Front Page code, I can't guarantee the Shed isn't riddled with security holes. Similarly, the FP won't run on the latest version of PHP as the code is just too old and I'd have to rewrite the whole thing from scratch to bring it up to modern standards. So, the end result is that there's a lot of probably well documented holes for people to get in.

So I guess all I can do is keep patching it up. But do give me a shout as soon as you see something not working so at least I can do it quickly.

Thanks.