Archive for November, 2007

Red Pill or the Blue Pill?

In bed and there is something I want to write but I can’t seem to put what I’m feeling into words. I’ve just seen a side of some one that has made me realize something; that it’s happening all over again. Do I stop it now before it gets out of hand? Or do I continue and hope that everything works out? Oh that’s the feeling… “Love”.

Moving Out

Ok I don’t think I’ve told you so far but I have found a place to stay in Leeds. No it’s not with my friend. I decide not to stay there since it was to far from the city centre and would make my transport far to long to work everyday. Plus the place I have found is nearly the same price I would have had to pay there at my friends.

So after looking on the internet for not very long I found a few rooms for let from one guy. I rang him and he arranged to pick me up from the train station to show me round the flats he has available.

First one I was shown was a very small room and I wasn’t interested at all. The second one was just smaller than a double room but when a single bed in there, there was plenty of room to swing a cat around :) The shared amenities where very clean and well furnished and the housemates already living there seemed nice and quiet.

Upon discussion the landlord wanted £250/pcm (Per Calendar Month) but said that was going out of my budget. I ask would he be interested in me paying up front for 6 months at a time and guarantee him 12 months of rent. If so what rent could he do me? £225/pcm was his answer. Yes what a bargain! Also did I mention that all bills are included and also free internet. No I didn’t lol. I bet you thought that that was a lot, but no it isn’t.

So I move out shortly from my flat in York. I’ve rang NPower and Yorkshire Water. All I do is give them a final meter reading before I move and they will bill me any remainder. I tried to ring BT the other day to ask about cutting the line off but I was on hold for 25 minutes so I hung up because I was clearly wasting my time. I need to contact Hunters next to say that I’m moving out. Then after that I need to contact all the places that have my address and get the address changed.

Too cold for an ice cream

I decided to go down by the river and sit and look out for a bit. Just to clear my head etc. Well when I got out “Burr” it was freezing. So after all that I never did take a sit down. Was far too cold to be sitting still. So instead took a walk along the river to keep warm. Oh and along the way I saw a squirrel :D obviously it was looking for nuts for the winter. I sneaked up to it and took a short video hehe.

Video

You can’t see much but as you can see as soon as i got close it ran up the tree. Later on when not recording it, it came back down and continued its hunt for nuts lol.

Climb the highest mountain!

I JUST WANT TO GO SOMEWHERE!!! AHHH what am I shouting for?? Well I just have the urge to go somewhere far away. Something that puts me in the middle of nowhere with no help what so ever…

I want a challenge. I want to climb the highest mountain :) Wow slow down a bit… I’m not old enough to have a mid life crisis yet!! Ok back to earth Scott :)

An Invite

I’ve been invited out by Emma and her friend Laura on Friday night to go around town :o Emma one of my oldest friends is trying to get me hooked up with her friend Laura lol. We will wait and see what happens on Friday shall we? I’ve talked to Laura already but I just don’t feel a connection there and told Emma, it most probably will not work out, but she is persistent to get me together with Laura. Also what doesn’t help I love another girl :( And guess what that girl is unavailable :( Problems all around hehehe.

Yawwwn

Hehehe today I decided to sleep in :) yes its Thursday and I’m not due into university until 3:45PM. I was suppose to meet someone in Leeds at 11AM but I was just so tired that I couldn’t be bothered going in so early.

Last few days have been very stressful. I’m found a place in Leeds and I’m moving out from York :) I never really knew how hard it is to move. There is so much involved :( Plus it doesn’t help that I’m now working 8AM-6PM each day at work. I had changed my hours to 9AM-5PM because it was becoming too much. I was always tired and never had much time to do anything else. Well now I’ve had to re-up my hours because those extra 2 hours a day gives me that little bit more cash I need :) but yes now I’m ever so tired again LOL. It’s a no win situation.

So today I’m taking it steady and trying to feel good. I’ve had a good sleep in. I’ve gotten up without rushing. Gone into town to get some breakfast and then popped into NRG to show my passport, and now I’m on the train to Leeds. I’ve decided to take the train that goes the long way round so it gives me time to right this. Plus I’m also listening to Barbara Streisand :) Nice and relaxed :) ahhhhhhhhhh.

I’ve been contacted

I have been contacted by a member of staff at Ford Retail the other day. He has seen my work that I have done for Ford and seems very interested in my PHP Coding. Any I had a quick chat with him on the phone to see why he was trying to get hold of me. Well it turns out that he deals with marketing and has 40+ domains of his own and a small team of coders and is looking to take on more coders.

After further chats with him its turns out that most of his web sites are adult orientated. I bet your thinking I’m going to turn him down due to it dealing with adult work but f you know some of the previous work I have done then you will know I said that I was interested. For those that don’t know the previous work I have done, I have done 3 escort sites and an advertising site advertising mature female escorts.

So anyway we have arranged to meet on Sunday for a chat about ideas and projects etc. So that’s my Sunday gone travelling to Doncaster :P

This is just what I wanted. To be able to work with someone likeminded local people in web developing. GREAT!!

Nothing seems to be what it seems

Ever had one of those days where you feel that something bad is going to happen or that the world doesn’t seem what it seems?? Well I just woke up like that today… It’s hard to explain…

Lets deface a website

The other day a guy I’ve known for a long time came to me and said I need help taking down a site. You know a website he wanted me to help hack it etc. Well as I know how etc and with him being a mate I helped in out. So anyway how do you go about finding a way into a website? I find it easy if the website has server side languages. Eg PHP ASP etc. If it doesn’t have those you are not going to get in. Secondly find on the site if it’s running any public CMS or module or script of some sort. At first glance the site was purely html but after closer look there was a chat script installed called Flash Chat.

Next job is to search for known exploits. Sure enough there was a known remote file include vulnerability on the version he was running. That’s it we know we are in :)

So what’s next what do you do?? Well with this vulnerability you have a way to run php code or another language on the victim’s website remotely. Firstly you need to create the script that you want to use on his site and upload it to your web server as a txt file. Then run the vulnerability including the file you have made and hey presto you have a script of your choice on the victims website. With the exploit I uploaded a custom made script to the person’s website so the file was local and gave the url to my friend. Was like; there you go knock yourself out. This script is called a shell. These shells are very powerful scripts that let you do a whole variety of things on some ones website. I’ll let you look them up for more details: P

I’d just like to say that I ain’t a leet hacker. I use methods that have been found by other people etc. The only thing I used of mine was my custom php script to upload the shell for my friend.

Busy Busy Busy

Ok so I haven’t updated my blog in a few weeks but it’s been busy busy busy. While at university the other day Alex from university suggested that I could stay with him as he had a spare room. I told at first that it was out of the question due to working at York at Ford 3 days a week.

Well after a few hours thinking about it, and knowing that ford let some of their staff work from home then I thought what if I asked if I could work from home 2 days a week and come in on Friday. That way I could live in Leeds but still work at Ford. Doing this I would be staying in leeds close to University. Cut down on one day’s travel and save myself a lot of money on living costs as it isn’t cheap in York.

Well Friday at work I asked for a word with the boss and I asked how he would feel about working from home or if he would let me. I described the reasons why. Straight away he said yes that’s not a problem but if traveling isn’t an issue I’d rather you came in for all three days of a week and we will pay from your transport. Well to me that’s perfect. I can live in Leeds, still come to work 3 days a week but not lose any money on transport.

Anyway I had to tell my mum the other day about it as she has been keeping track of me regarding a new place to stay etc. Well guess what she was over the moon once she heard that I had found a place in Leeds and that Ford would pay for my transport. She has been like typical mum last few days, “oooo I’m so proud of you Scott” LOL

Well today I’m going up to Alex’s place to see what his accommodation is like. It might not be ideal for me so we will be back to looking for accommodation but this time we can find places in Leeds. I’ll let you know how I get on later.