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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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WordPress Hack Attack
Synopsis: I detail my experiences with a WordPress hack across multiple shared hosting sites, the steps taken to recover WordPress and secure against future attacks. Introduction: On the December 15th I discovered a number of my WordPress installations had been compromised. Rather than a concerted attack, this was likely the result of widely available scripting… Read more
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Lies!
Governments the world over like to spin the truth, into lies, in order to push their own agenda forward. Here’s a particularly fun one from the UK. After the cops spunked €5.9 million harrassing a group of long hairs protesting at a Kingsnorth power station, they justified their huge, nearly militery, operation saying that 70… Read more
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New Heroes of Comedy
We’ve written a lot, well a lot of what we’ve written, which is not a lot, but a lot a of that, here on Marshmallow about the outpouring of comedic talent on British television and radio in the 1990’s. Folks like Steve Coogan, Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci revolutionised British comedy; fusing the surrealism, verbal… Read more
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Unintentional Humour No. 4
I spend an inordinate amount of time wondering around the back end of the internet. The places where the darkness lies, where jihadis log on for chats, where the survivalists talk politics and where the BNP threaten and intimidate. I’m probably on some government no fly list because of it. No matter. I’ve recently wondered… Read more
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Unintentional Humour no. 3 – Andy Hodgson
Deep in the misty vales of late night television lurk odd, orange stained little men, with bright white teeth and entries on the sex offender’s registry. The greatest is this man, Andy Hodgson, whose appearance and demeanour shares elements of Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge and Austrian sex man Joesph Fritzl. This video compilation of his… Read more
Gareth Stack 