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A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to stay in the Cinnamon Grand during a trip to Sri Lanka. This is a beautiful old hotel, which unfortunately was damaged in this years terrorist attacks. I

So I recovered a whole bunch more photos from my trip to Sri Lanka, so here is a selection of shots from my half-day visit to the elephant orphanage at Pinnawala. This guy is just taking his lunch with

So I came across some photos I took during a visit to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, near Kandy in Sri Lanka a couple of years ago. They were stored on a broken phone that I am recovering files from. For

So it has been a while since I last posted here, but those of you following me will notice I've been re-steeming/upvoting some content and delegating some SP to some users. I'd honestly nearly forgotten

Ended up back at Bülowstraße again, and spotted a couple more bits of amazing graffiti that were tucked away. There's more around there I intend to photograph, just need to get some time to do so. Anyway,

So today I found myself passing through Bülowstraße on my way to a training I was attending. While on the ubahn, I noticed that there was a bunch of art on one of the buildings near the station, so I figured

Spotted this recently whole getting a train from Alexanderplatz. Have seen evidence of other art there as well, but all scuffed up by people walking over it. I'll have to keep a closer look out for more

Been a while since my last update, so here is some recent pub sandwich board art I came across in my travels. I was hanging out with some friends at a pub named "The Castle" in Berlin and noticed

The picture is of a tea light behind a pint of pilsner. The pint of pilsner is the pint I raise to some fallen friends. Due to distance and other complications, I couldn't make it to their memorials. So

So a while back after a discussion on Twitter, I had the idea to write a quick tool to take screenshots of telnet login banners. I then had the idea to compose the output into a video file for amusement

So I figured I'd share a little script I wrote a while back for checking how much my Coinbase account was worth. Its pretty crude, and needs some error checking and general improvements, but it is extremely

Ages ago myself and my other half went to the "Kitty Cafe" in Nottingham, UK. I had taken a bunch of photos, but unfortunately, most of them were on my iPhone. Which is dead... A couple, however,

So recently, thanks to the blockchain-gods providing me some exceptionally good luck (Litecoin price going up, for example), I decided to treat myself to a replacement phone. My trusty OnePlus One has

So in August I went to the SHA2017 hacker camp in the Netherlands. At the end of the camp, when it began to rain really badly, my friends and I decided to stay a night in Utrecht, an absolutely lovely

Image: finding our NOP Sled using GDB... So, previously we covered playing (and winning) levels 0 and 1 of the Narnia wargames. Today, I am going to talk to you about how we defeated level 2. I want to

So I have not posted one of these in quite a while. This weekend I was exploring Ealing, in London, and came across this wonderful sign outside a pub named "The Grove". It made me laugh, and

So the other day I came across a wonderful resource on learning Return Oriented Programming, an exploitation technique, called the "ROP Emporium". In this blog post, I'll outline how I went about

Authors note: This is being posted early, as I want to spend time AFK tomorrow... In yesterdays writeup we exploited the first level of the Narnia wargame hosted by Over the Wire. Todays writeup is a short

I have been meaning to start a series of posts about some of the legal online hacking challenges, or "wargames", for some time now. I have a series of writeups in the works for the Natas web

So, my favourite beer is Guinness, probably because I am a walking stereotype (red haired Irish guy who likes to drink). Anyway. Since I find myself living in the UK, it is quite hard to find a good pint