As you will no doubt be aware, INAP has not been online for some time now. The site was repeatedly targeted by hackers who manipulated a weakness in the code to carve out a ‘back door’ access to the server on which the site was hosted. After the final attack at the start of June 2006 the entire site was removed from the server, thoroughly evaluated ( Read more... )

INAP is *almost* ready to go live again - I will keep you all up to date with that. But I have a favour to ask. Here's the updated links list from the original version of the site (this is a basic bog-standard HTML file by the way, it'll be prettied up when it goes on the site...) all of those links work and I've taken out some of the irrelvant ( Read more... )

I Need a Parrot has been 'mine' for so long now that a lot of people don't necessarily know that it used to be run by someone else. kaz814 to be precise. When I took it over (with smileawhile who still manages not to hate me for the number of times I've said "Yes, but why does it work?") I stayed with the format Kaz had set up to ease users into the new site. That ( Read more... )

The following is the completed list of stories removed from I Need a Parrot due to corrupted files. There are other stories where the formatting has been badly affected so they may also have to be removed at a later date. It's a long list. You will see that a lot of the stories are by the same two or three authors - the reason for that is that each ( Read more... )

I really hate using other people's code, even when I tear it apart and basically rewrite it from scratch there's always something in there determined to trip me up. And I also kinda hate the navigation strip LJ introduced. I know it's handy and I know a lot of people use it and love it (and call it 'squishy' for all I know...) but I turn it off ( Read more... )

So I started ftp'ing the files from my server to my computer at around 2pm. It's what... just after 7 now? Still downloading the 'caps' directory - bloody screencaps taking up so much space... *g*

And I've been working on the layout for i_need_a_parrot - I'm kinda happy with it right now but I may tweak it some more over the next few days. Original coding for ( Read more... )

Chicken was yummy by the way - I did a whole citrus/chilli/red wine type thing (not quite following monkey_matt's recipe but pretty much inspired by it - would have been even better with some red onion roasted in with it I think, just to sweeten it a little but not overpower it). There's leftovers for tonight and I'm going to make stock and have my big soup ( Read more... )

The weather is decidely crap today - this is supposed to be midsummer, dammit! - and I'm not exactly feeling healthy right now. Not enough sleep and not eating properly, plus I'm pushing myself a little too hard training wise. The run is in less than twenty days and I'm not ready for it yet. On the other hand, I still have nearly twenty days to get ( Read more... )

I-I bro-oke INAP ( Read more... )

You guys'll stand up in my defence, right? I figure with a decent lawyer and people speaking in my defence I can talk it down from Murder to maybe getting a medal for acting in the best interests of the public.  And yeah, so it's only just after 7 so it's too early to actually complain, but hell. I'm gonna anyway ( Read more... )