Things in my personal life have taken a turn for the worse. I'm hoping I can sort this out soon but I will need time and space and I definitely need to stay away from the internet.

(Emoticon from mazeguy.net.)

That's right, new theme. I couldn't sleep last night so I spent most of my time making this, after fighting another potential design for the best part of a month. This is pretty generic for me, and I wanted to get into fluid layouts without nasty wrapping going on when the font size is increased... But alas, it was not to be. You'd think, since I make these sorts of layouts all the time (see the last 6 themes - they're all pretty much the same), that I would be able to churn them out in about 5 minutes, wouldn't you? Wrong, it took me almost 6 hours just to tweak everything and get it right. That said, the tabs are wonky in Firefox, hacked together in IE and I didn't realise they were overlapping the sidebar, so I had to move it down a little so that would no longer happen (yes, that's why that ugly white gap is there). The tabs and the titling all wrap in a really nasty way if you increase the font size, the layout isn't fluid, blah blah blah. Must get out of uncreative rut.

The photo is my own, from a day trip I went on recently. I'm really rather proud of it :D

My final year of University starts soon. I'm not entirely sure how soon since I haven't been given many details (I've got a form that says "pay your fees on [date] or else" but that's it...), but I sort of can't wait. I am so bored here at home with nothing to do. I'm sure I will hate it the moment it starts (ARGH ONLY 6 MONTHS TO DO THE DISSERTATION! ARGH ARGH ARGH *Panic*) but at the moment I hate being bored so who knows.

If by now you aren't aware of the serious vulnerabilities that exist within CodeGrrl.com's most popular scripts then I would recommend that you read this announcement as a matter of urgency.

As a result of the above vulnerability, I have recently discovered that certain people have been telling others to delete the affected file, protection.php, to avoid being hacked.

DO NOT DO THIS.

Deleting protection.php takes away the admin panel's password protection and you will be leaving your scripts wide open to much more than hacking.

At first I thought it was just a misinformed user telling others what they thought was best - I was wrong. Today I was alerted to the fact that it is in fact Surpass Hosting that is spreading this very seriously incorrect advice.

Please spread the word about this. Deleting protection.php is about as secure as leaving it unpatched on the server. You WILL be hacked if you leave it unpatched, and you will also be hacked if you delete it. If you've deleted protection.php, put it back as soon as possible and tell anyone else who may have deleted it to do the same.

If you are at all worried about running PHPFanBase or any other affected CodeGrrl.com script and have decided against keeping said scripts, you need to delete ALL the files associated with the scripts, not just protection.php.

Oh, and Surpass have apparently banned my script, PHPAskIt, because they believed the recent security vulnerability hoax that stated that my script could be hacked like the rest of the CG scripts. It CAN'T. It is not based on PHPFanBase like the vulnerable CodeGrrl scripts are, and can NOT be hacked through protection.php (there is no such file anyway) or through any similar method in other files.