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bouteillebleuI bought a lot of books and music today, so I'll be giving my thoughts about them for the next few days.
New music:
Naio Ssaion - Out Loud
Another metal band with a female vocalist. Bought it on the strength of "The Mirror", which Pandora has put in my playlist recently, and it doesn't disappoint. The singer is very good, there are no growls, and one of the band members plays an electric violin - he's even on the album cover with it.
Nightwish - Nemo (single)
This is the first single I've bought in about seven years. It was the non-album track (White Night Fantasy) and the orchestral version of Nemo that got me to buy it.
(I also have an Archer AMV and a Riku AMV floating around my head every time I hear this song. Perhaps I'll make one of them some day, though someone's already done an Archer one to the anime series.)
New books:
Web Hacking, by Stuart McClure, Saumil Shah and Shreeraj Shah.
£4.95 at Galloway and Porter.
A vaguely interesting guide to security holes in websites. Covers some things I've known for a long time (such as View Source in browsers), some things I've learned from The Daily WTF (such as SQL injection attacks and the infamous &OR1=1 in CGI GET requests), and some things I didn't know (such as how to identify web servers from the HTTP headers they send).
I like reading about security things, perhaps because I never get to use them. :)
New music:
Naio Ssaion - Out Loud
Another metal band with a female vocalist. Bought it on the strength of "The Mirror", which Pandora has put in my playlist recently, and it doesn't disappoint. The singer is very good, there are no growls, and one of the band members plays an electric violin - he's even on the album cover with it.
Nightwish - Nemo (single)
This is the first single I've bought in about seven years. It was the non-album track (White Night Fantasy) and the orchestral version of Nemo that got me to buy it.
(I also have an Archer AMV and a Riku AMV floating around my head every time I hear this song. Perhaps I'll make one of them some day, though someone's already done an Archer one to the anime series.)
New books:
Web Hacking, by Stuart McClure, Saumil Shah and Shreeraj Shah.
£4.95 at Galloway and Porter.
A vaguely interesting guide to security holes in websites. Covers some things I've known for a long time (such as View Source in browsers), some things I've learned from The Daily WTF (such as SQL injection attacks and the infamous &OR1=1 in CGI GET requests), and some things I didn't know (such as how to identify web servers from the HTTP headers they send).
I like reading about security things, perhaps because I never get to use them. :)
