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2 BR Apartment Amsterdam (near Leidse Plein) for rent

Available from April 15, 2010!
Including: furniture, gas, water, electricity, internet wifi, big TV
Price: EUR 1250 per month
Notes: Kitchen was developed by “Eigen Huis en Tuin” (dutch home make-over TV show)

Living

Living

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Entrance Overtoom

Contact me for more info.

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Testing oc php pizza plugin

We need to order

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Running WordPress 2.9 RC1

WordPress just released the 2.9 release candidate 1 and if all goes well, we can see the 2.9 version by the end of this week!

It is an exciting new version with many new features, but most notably would be the slick basic image editor! If you need Photoshop, go to Adobe, but this is really nice for basic needs!

Another nice thing is the trash status, so you can click around and do your updates quicker, without the risk of losing anything.

Read the complete list of changes here.

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Bad guys stealing macs

We got a call around 12:30am from the alarm company that the alarm went off caused by movement in our office.

A little later I went there to check out what happened.

Window is pretty much in one piece.

They broke in via the side window.

Couple of blocks were blocked by police while searching for suspects.


Only one of the iMacs was found back. A lit-tle scratched… (looks just as bad as this) One of the bad guys dropped it while running, when he found himself followed by police. Too bad they lost them. So we’re still missing one mac in action.

While waiting for the guy to come and put and emergency board up, I will write this post and get some work done -on my laptop-, lucky they didn’t steal the “Internet” :)

It’s after five am now… hope the guy who is fixing the window, is done soon!

Would be a cool experiment to see if that iMac still works :-)

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2 BR Apartment Amsterdam (near Leidse Plein) for rent

[Update: apartment available from April 15, 2010!]

Contact me for more info.

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Coworking Fullerton: the video

Welcome to our office. I work here most of the time.
We share our office. It’s called Co-Working.
Everyone that has been here likes it a lot and we already have a couple of very nice people coming here on a regular basis.

George said: “I worked from this coworking location the last few days. It
is a really warm and positive environment. I brought my files
and got so much done!

I was hesitant about membership at first, but the great
atmosphere, quiet, good coffee and location are really great.
I have client meetings here and know it communicates a positive
immage of my business. Thanks Rutger and Marieke!”

We would like to get more people to join us and to start working from our office also.
If you know how we can reach more people or maybe you know someone that can benefit from it, please let me know.

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Hard or Heart

My brother Steven just passed away yesterday. Tuesday (Feb 3rd) is the funeral.

I live close to Los Angeles, California with my wife and 3 kids (we take care of Ciaran, son of Steven). I came here on a B1 visa. We changed status to E2 on my wife’s business Branding Personality LLC which is approved to mid 2010. If I return to attend the funeral, I cannot go back to the USA because of the rules and have to apply all over again. If you have been through an application you know you don’t want that. Not only is there a 4 month wait in Amsterdam, as situations change, we may not even be approved again, leaving our business and lives on hold in the USA is a financial catastophe as well.

I have two options:

1. go to the funeral and throw it all away

2. stay here and miss the last chance of seeing my brother and give hugs to my family

Or… will anyone make a miracle happen, by bending the rules a little. Advance parole happens and if I get my passport stamped before I leave, I can simply get back here.

Please o please help me.

 

Links:

http://www.stevenhensel.nl/
http://henselcirkel.wordpress.com/
http://twitter.com/rutger
http://twitter.com/hensel

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Just in time

Phew :)

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Careful with WordPress themes

iphone wordpress app xml rpc error messageWordPress is great and so are the endless themes around the internet you can use to display your blog to whatever you may feel like today.

But today I found out that those innocent themes (after all they are just a bunch of templates, .php files actually, so not really harmless anyway) can steal your login information, or that’s at least what it looks like after my “crime scene investigation”.

I am using the wordpress iphone app to take a photo, enter some words and then it posts the blog for me. It uses the xml-rpc interface to conveniently post your blog from your iphone to the wordpress code on your website.

It was only after something was not working, that I dug deeper to find out what was wrong. Actually this iphone app was working well on 3 blogs that I update once in a while, but not on one blog and I could not find anything wrong with it at first (same version, xml rpc was activated, etc.), only difference were the domainname and the way they look, the theme. Then I found this line in the source code (in the header.php file):

<link rel=”EditURI” type=”application/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=”http://scott-m.net/xmlrpc.php?rsd” />

A little bit further down that same header.php file was a line with the correct xml-rpc URL, but as the above line was closer to the beginning, the iphone app was fooled to take that first one when trying to figure out where my xml-rpc interface was located. But because that domain scott-m.net looks like it is not active anymore it triggers an error.

It does not look hard to set it up as a phishing trap by that friendly theme creator (who is so nice to give away that eye candy for free!). If they set up their own xml-rpc service that works like a proxy, so it may look like it is working well, but your username and password that are sent along can be easily saved to do some bad stuff. Or in my case, it may look like an error, but the username and password are already saved.

I am not saying that the above corvette template is phishing my userdetails on purpose (it could just be a line remaining from testing), but they could if they wanted.

I think it could be fixed by WordPress by checking if that EditURI href URL differs from the URL that you enter when setting up the domain in the iphone app. Maybe with an override of some sort, but in any case some protection against this would in imho be a lot safer than it is right now.

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100% Solar Powered Webhosting

Our new facility in Los Angeles is 100% solar powered. We’d love to host you and please note that we have batteries so your site will be up during the night ;-)

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