Life keeps Happening to Me!

My vision is impaired. Just recently, dark specks appeared before my eyes. Actually, only before one eye. Not the little odd things you sometimes see, dust motes floating, because when I blink they don't move. Inside the eye, then.

Good old Kaiser slid me into a 4:30 appointment with eyedrops and tests. Come to find out ...

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Wrestling with the Angel of Hack

Searching a method permitting BlogBoys users to edit their AboutMe, I was hunting a php programmer. A Nucleus forum visitor pointed me toward a free script to do the job, and once downloaded and installed, it's great and it's terrible.

It's great because I can copy the script anywhere into html space, then browse there, and presto I can see inside most any folder on the server. In any folder world-writable, I can copy files, make links to files, delete files, edit files. Neat.

It's terrible because, if I can do it, anybody can do it. Getting into a previously 'secured' folder and stealing the credit-card number proved way easy. If I can't throttle this boy into acting with some restraint, he's outta here!