BBC says:

A cam­paign encou­ra­ging peo­ple to store per­so­nal details on their mobile pho­nes to help iden­tify vic­tims of acci­dents and disas­ters has taken off since the bomb attacks in Lon­don.

Users are being urged to enter a num­ber in their phone’s memory under the hea­ding ICE — In Case of Emergency.

Para­me­dics or police would then be able to use it to con­tact a relative.

The idea is the brainchild of East Anglian Ambu­lance Ser­vice para­me­dic Bob Brotchie and was launched in May.

I was hap­pe­ning to enjoy wri­ting a lovely for­mat­ted email one eve­ning and I deci­ded I’d like to inc­lude a quote from a web­site at the end of the email. Gmail’s rich text edi­tor is fan­tas­tic at inter­pre­ting html from the clip­board and it imple­ments all for­mat­ting, URLs, ima­ges and code. I love this fea­ture and it is extre­mely handy. In this case I was cop­ying a block of text, howe­ver mid sen­tence there was a small image that was a use­ful link for the web­site but was not requi­red in the email. The text-editor added it as expec­ted and I motio­ned to remove it. Howe­ver, it wasn’t just your stan­dard image lin­ked to web page because upon clic­king to delete the icon it pro­cee­ded to load the page it lin­ked to… within the rich text edi­tor. The code for the image loo­ked something like this:

<a href=” url”
onc­lick=”{ window.location.href=‘url that loads’; return false; }”
onmouseover=“status=‘url’; return true;”
onmouseout=“status=”; return true;”>
<img style=“width: 402px; height: 378px;” src=“image url” border=“0”>
</a>

This page that loa­ded repla­ced my care­fully wor­ded email much to my anno­yance yet I grew exci­ted at the pros­pect of being able to send web pages to friends with ease. My mind was tra­ve­ling along the lines of,

“If I could exploit this bug, I could create a sim­ple PHP script, ren­der some code for the desi­red URL and then get the full web page up in the edi­tor which I can then send”

Although these plans were somewhat thwar­ted when I noti­ced the SEND and save draft but­tons had become com­ple­tely defunct after ren­de­ring the url’s html. I’ve given up re-writing the ori­gi­nal email because I’m tired.I should also point out that this bug only occurs in fire­fox. Make of this what you will. Although I do fear it could open up some secu­rity issues such that the loa­ding of mali­cious html within gmail could pose a serious threat.

What an event­ful week this has been.

Live8, a glo­bal pro­test and colla­bo­ra­tion in an attempt to urge on the G8 lea­ders to can­cel debt, pro­vide inc­rea­sed aid and most impor­tantly to improve trade rela­tionships and give Africa free trade; all in an aim to bid poverty goodbye. Millions upon millions gathe­red, watched and pled­ged their sup­port on Satur­day to the Live8 cause, the level of par­ti­ci­pa­tion in this inter­na­tio­nal protest/campaign was unpre­ce­den­ted. Des­pite utte­ring of hypoc­risy and the usual cri­tics, peo­ple rallied to show that they do still care, that they want change and enforce that peo­ple can make a dif­fe­rence. With the resour­ces and money we have, there should be no poverty in the democ­ra­tic and fair coun­tries of Africa and we should do everything pos­si­ble to com­bat it. It is from the edu­ca­tion and pre­sen­ta­tion of extreme poverty, hun­ger, corrup­tion and death that we, as a peo­ple, can rally and use our power to influence events. It is from the utmost worst of things that we show our true human spi­rit in a bid to do good. 

And today, Lon­don Terro­rist attacks, brought the city of Lon­don to a stand still. Four under­ground explo­sions and a bomb on a dou­ble dec­ker bus have left 40 peo­ple dead, the city at a stand still and com­plete dis­rup­tion to the city. A most terri­ble and terrif­ying event aimed at mur­de­ring inno­cent Bri­tish citi­zens. I’ve watched it all unfold throughout the day, from 10am this mor­ning I’ve watched BBC News 24 and deba­ted on Inter­net fora as more explo­sions, deaths and hap­pe­nings unfold. I’ve seen Chi­nooks and Apache heli­cop­ters fly over and I’ve seen the nation’s busi­nes­ses on high alert. The com­bi­ned, swift and exce­llent aid ser­vi­ces have got the needy to hos­pi­tals as fast as humanly pos­si­ble, loc­ked down cen­tral Lon­don, taken con­trol and suc­cess­fully pre­ven­ted panic and unnee­ded grief; the peo­ple of Lon­don have sta­yed calm. I have nothing but praise for the efforts of the ser­vi­ces. But once again, it is this most disas­trous of inci­dents that has brought out the best in us. The sto­ries of good will, sup­port and kind­ness to others are phe­no­me­nal; from peo­ple giving free lifts out of con­ges­ted Lon­don and peo­ple giving up accom­mo­da­tion to those who need it to the bus ser­vi­ces hel­ping to cart the inju­red to the hos­pi­tals, the extra hos­pi­tal wor­kers and volun­teers called in, the nurse that’s in Lon­don on her day off that goes to the nea­rest hos­pi­tal to help out, the buil­ders that hear the news on the radio and all head to donate blood gene­rously and instinctively.

In a world that more and more peo­ple are calling unca­ring, with­drawn, sepa­ra­ted, corrupt and com­mer­cial, it is these events that have reins­ta­lled my faith in huma­nity. We still have it in us to do good, it’s just we need something disas­trous and horri­ble to remind us of our capabilities.

• Sys­tems and Con­trol (CG203): 85%
• Sig­nal Pro­ces­sing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions (CG204): 94%
• Ana­lo­gue Design (ES21J): 81%
• Applied Linear Alge­bra (ES21L): 92% (7.5 cats)
• Design of Mea­su­re­ment Sys­tems (ES21Q): 70% (7.5 cats)
• Digi­tal Design (ES21R): 80%
• Elec­tro­nic Sys­tems (ES21T): 79%
• Soft­ware Deve­lop­ment (ES22E): 92%
• Star­ting a Busi­ness (IB229): 58% (7.5 cats)
• ULSI (PX258): 70%

Ove­rall mark is 81.4% a First. Im so happy, I only really did badly in the “Star­ting a Busi­ness” module, a com­ple­tely cour­se­work asses­sed module with little to no rele­vance to engi­nee­ring. The majo­rity of peo­ple I know who took that module got 58%. Im a little angry because I wor­ked so hard for the write-up. But ove­rall I am over­jo­yed, 94% in the har­dest module kicks major ass and reflects the unpre­ce­den­ted amount of work I had to do for it.