I wrote a dorm network management system based on Perl and MySQL years ago. I was pretty careful to feed all the form inputs to DBI::quote(), but apparently not careful enough. No one was cruel enough to slip in a DROP TABLE, but I did get a couple of snotty mails including bits of database rows that no one should be able to see.
"nastygrams" we call those. They can be fun for all involved, if written properly between good-natured participants. Just on Friday we learned that COLLEAGUE would be bringing cookies every day next week; next time he'll lock his computer before lunch, especially if BOSS is planning to stop by.
(I don't see any cookies today. In fact I don't see COLLEAGUE today. Taking a sick day is an extreme response, in my opinion.)
Every single xkcd has mouseover text. Sometimes it's just a comment on the comic, or an afterthought, but other times it's a second punchline that may be even better than the first. Now you have to go back and read them all :)
Someone at the talk at MIT asked Randall how many readers read the mouseover text, and I think he said probably less than 10%. I was surprised.
Also, if you use Firefox and don't already have it, there's a FF Add-on that displays the whole alt-text instead of truncating it. I think of it as the xkcd-Add-on.
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moominmolly) wrote2007-10-10 10:43 am
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I wrote a dorm network management system based on Perl and MySQL years ago. I was pretty careful to feed all the form inputs to DBI::quote(), but apparently not careful enough. No one was cruel enough to slip in a DROP TABLE, but I did get a couple of snotty mails including bits of database rows that no one should be able to see.
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(I don't see any cookies today. In fact I don't see COLLEAGUE today. Taking a sick day is an extreme response, in my opinion.)
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I also love the mom slurping coffee.
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...and in addition, why is a random user db process running w/ enuf privilege to drop tables?
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"Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory."
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H,
whose faves are "Nash" and "3 hours of fascinated clicking later"
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Someone at the talk at MIT asked Randall how many readers read the mouseover text, and I think he said probably less than 10%. I was surprised.
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That made my night. Where did you find it?
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xkcd: Letting Go
xkcd: Code Talkers
xkcd: Map of Online Communities
(make sure to read the mouseover text on all of them)
Okay, now you can just spend the rest of the day reading all of xkcd start to end :)
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