I was hacked!

Someone decided to hack twindx.com last night. An index.html was dumped somehow into my account - this is it here. I'm a little miffed - my password is safe, so I suspect there's an unpatched Apache that has been exploited in some way on the server at PHPWebHosting. But I'm more annoyed that I was 0\^/n3d by someone who made their l33t haXX0r message in bloody Frontpage!

Old Lego models

Whilst tootling about on the web I found an old website of mine, and rescued these images from it. This was what I was doing before I found my 15 minutes of 'fame' with Lego Street Preachers...

Classic mid-80s stock car set. Modeled in LeoCAD and rendered in POV-Ray.

1998 World Cup football set - a basic grandstand. Modeled and everything as above.

Late 70s Lego Builders Club sew-on patch. Shortly after scanning it, I lost it - got no idea where it is now. Bah!

This little lot was done back at the tail end of 1998, so it's all about six years old now. It's mad to think I was rendering those images on a 180MHz WinChip processor...

Cut n' Paste JavaScript RSS Feed

This is a cool little toy for those of us too lazy to figure out server-side handling of RSS/RDF feed thingies... get Javascript to do it for you. Works well, I've been using it with the Beeb's news feed. I think I'll make proper use of it sometime soon...

Update: the URL I used before was for someone who was running the PHP Engine for making the Javascript, but wasn't actually the original author. The joys of the GPL, eh? So, the link has been updated, and at lunchtime I'll install the PHP engine myself on twindx.com. This is part of something bigger (but will still be barely looked at by the world)...

Cut n' Paste JavaScript RSS Feed

GameCube-Linux

Well, the same crazy fools who managed to get Linux to run on an XBox have managed much the same thing with the GameCube. It seems more insane to do this on a GameCube, though. The XBox has an ethernet port on the back and the controllers are all USB devices with custom plugs on - the GameCube has none of these features.

Still, it's kinda cool. In a too-much-time-on-their-hands way.

GameCube-Linux