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Work has begun on making Webscavator more community open-source based, so the code has been put into github and the issues and bugs that need fixing will shortly go in there or some other free bug tracking tool. Also I will set up a mailing list for those who want updates. Since I haven't yet put Webscavator on my Google Analytic's panel (d'oh!) I have to make do with parsing out my Apache logs. Unfortunately because it's on a virtual machine all the IP addresses in the Apache logs are from the OS that is hosting the VM rather than from the requesters to the site (double d'oh!). Once I got rid of all the lines from bots and those not to the homepage, I came up with a 320 visitors to Webscavator since January 2011. Since I've not really been advertising it, I think that's a fair amount!

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Yesterday and today I was at the 1^st International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics held at Strathclyde University where I presented a paper I wrote based on my master's thesis on web history visualisations for forensic investigations. You can download the paper and my slides here, or contact the conference organiser for the whole conference book. The presentation went really well; I'm still a bit in shock as to how well actually..! A lecturer from Glasgow Uni was interested in using Webscavator as part of her Usable Security course, and a lecturer from the Australian University of Ballerat was keen to help extend the tool - and said the Australian police had heard of me and were possibly using it! Other people including lecturers from Abertay Uni and Cranfield Uni were also interested in using/helping extend it and both said I should do a PhD. Hmmm, a lot of think about!

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So I started my thesis 'officially' yesterday, after being told we all were allowed to proceed to masters following the exam board meeting. No actual results posted up yet, but hopefully I did well!

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