For some reason that song's been circling my head... Perhaps because I've been stupid yet again.

On Saturday, me and the boyfriend went to Alton Towers as a belated birthday trip. The weather forecast said it would be sunny and warm - yay! Perfect.

...you'd think, wouldn't you, that with advanced warning I'd have thought to protect myself against the sun, being that I'm very fair skinned and burn very easily... Wrong, I didn't. Hence why three days later I am sat here with first degree burns all over my face and neck and am hardly able to see for the fact that my forehead has swelled up so much that it's kind of drooping over my eyes and forcing them shut. I look like I've been punched in the face repeatedly :\
Had to go to the emergency out-of-hours doctor thing yesterday, and, after she'd Googled my condition (!) the doc sent me home with some cream and some tablets I'm not allowed to take (and she knew it. When I pointed it out to her, she said "oh, well, it should be fine..."). Errr... Right. Jem had a similar experience where an incompetent doctor was searching the net for how to deal with her particular case. WTF? Do doctors not need to go to medical school or anything any more? My grandparents (retired doctors) studied for years to specialise in their field. If it's just a case of Googling a condition and sending someone home with some OTC meds then I can be a doctor too. O_O

And the Alton Towers trip wasn't even worth it. There were huge amounts of queues and half the rides were out of order. We queued for 2 hours for one such ride before being told that it was experiencing "technical difficulties". We went to another ride, which, after an hour and a half's queue, experienced the same technical difficulties. Gah! We waited around since we weren't sure we wanted to find another ride to queue all day for, and after about an hour they told us rather annoyingly that the ride would be closed for the rest of the day. So, we found some other ride to go on, even though the park would be closing soon. Guess what? After an hour's queue, the SAME THING happened yet AGAIN. Although this time it got fixed relatively quickly (we weren't moving - we were at the front of the queue this time!) and we got to experience all 30 seconds of the ride, but argh, the frustration! We complained, of course, but got money off for next time and a priority ticket for some rides. Psh, we wanted a complete refund.

Anyway. I must go and lie down again. My work placement finishes on Friday but I can't do any work. *Sigh*

Oh, and anyone know of any cheap reseller hosts? I'm in need of one. Kind of tired of my site being constantly down. :(

Edit on 8th June: If you can see this, my site's successfully propagated onto the new server! :D

Yet again I find myself making stupid blunders.

Guess what I did the other day. No, go on - guess. It has to do with the fact that I released a minor update to PHPAskIt the other day.

...yup, that's right, I left all my database details - complete with passwords and everything - in the config file which I released as part of the .zip file. Now a normal person would check over the files up for release, and make sure that there are no passwords or sensitive information left in them. Or at the very least, download the file once it's been released and make sure all the parts work properly. Did I do that? No. I tested the files on my local PHP installation and assumed everything would work. Then I used one of the fixes on another site, and found out that it didn't work. Why? Because I have PHP5 locally and this other site uses PHP4. No big deal, obviously that function had been updated in PHP5 so I consulted the PHP manual and found a working equivalent for PHP4. I then updated the zip file up for download. Then I noticed a few typos here and there and updated the file around 230943435235 more times. Not once did I notice I'd left all my info in the config file. 3 days later I suddenly ask myself if I'd tested this or that in the new version, so I download the one I'd put online to check if I had added something before I went about tinkering with the code again.
...and there we go, I noticed my own info in the config file. THREE DAYS AFTER RELEASE. I'm surprised I wasn't hacked again since I used that password on my cPanel and stuff. (Note to all hackers and other nosey people: passwords everywhere now changed, so don't bother trying it.)

My boyfriend (whose birthday it was yesterday - and whose present hasn't arrived yet even though I ordered it some time ago) thinks I was blonde in a previous life, or that I'm a natural blonde with dyed hair because of all these stupid blunders I make. :\ Perhaps he's right.

Ooh, but my server time is now corrected. Some new guy has joined my hosts and although last week things were looking a bit shady (I was hacked a total of 3 times and support did absolutely nothing about it) it all looks to be better now. Notice you can actually get to my site now? Yay :)

My stupidity knows no bounds, it really doesn't.

So yesterday, I found out I'd been hacked. Nothing major, just a defacement of an old folder I used to use. The whole server had been done and any folders which were writeable had files inserted and others defaced. I stupidly thought that folder would be safe since I'd password-protected it, but obviously not. Anyway, like I said - no big deal, but I decided to change all my passwords just in case. To do this for the databases, I had to delete the MySQL users and recreate them with different passwords and all that. I use cPanel for all this, so in order to delete the MySQL user, I first deleted the user from the access list for the database just in case. Of course, I clicked the wrong delete and managed to delete my entire Wordpress database. :'(

Fortunately I had a recent-ish backup (two days old) so I was able to restore everything (give or take a few comments) but still... cPanel should have a confirmation asking if you're sure you want to delete databases. Grrr. Either that or I should be more careful where I'm clicking.

On a somewhat related note, my server's time is messed up. I keep having to change the offsets and it's really annoying me. Right now it's almost an hour fast - a gmdate() function reveals the GMT time to be almost an hour fast, anyway. I asked support about it and they said they would look into it, but so far nothing seems to have changed. :(