Lincoln II
It looks like nothing is open at 8am for breakfast. Even though the previous night, I did see cafes offering breakfast. When I cam back this morning to my horror, they were only open at 10am. Short, late, lazy breakfasts!
Chips
Giving chips for lent is not as simple as first thought. Lately, people having been leaving chips because they cannot eat them. I hate seeing chips going to waste. Plus in a pub in Lincoln, you could get a hamburger and chips for 1.95. Cheap as chips!
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
Random Musings - Day #96
Lincoln
Currently in the Cathedral city of Lincoln. The Cathedral itself is on a hill and fortunately I am staying on the hill at the Bailhouse hotel, which has amongst other things an outdoor heated pool (though I did check it was rather cold) and free wifi. Mind you, my room doesn't some of facilities mentioned on the website (e.g. dvd and tea facilities). The restaurants and cafes in the Bailgate seem upmarket than the ones down the hill in the city centre. In fact there were a couple homeless people sitting outside shops. So quite the variety there. I went and ate at Fourteen and had a lovely soup and sausages/potatoes.
Who is Bill Bailey?
In nearby Nettleham, there is the Bill Bailey Memorial Playing Fields, which is home to non-league Nettleham FC. I was thinking surely this can't be named after the all-round funny guy/troll/klingon Bill Bailey. He's not dead yet. Sure enough, it isn't. Bill Bailey was born in Somerset! Another amazing fact is that Axel Rose is also known as Bill Bailey.
Home Office Porn
The Home Office website had a link to a porn site caused by the fact the external link's domain expired and got bought by a different dubious company.
Solaris
0xdeadbeef (which is can be a hex value if you wish) looks like a good place to gather and demonstrate vulnerabilities with Solaris systems.
Tennis
Looks like Laura Robson may have suitable competition in the years to come in the form of 14 year old Madison Keys won on her WTA debut.
Currently in the Cathedral city of Lincoln. The Cathedral itself is on a hill and fortunately I am staying on the hill at the Bailhouse hotel, which has amongst other things an outdoor heated pool (though I did check it was rather cold) and free wifi. Mind you, my room doesn't some of facilities mentioned on the website (e.g. dvd and tea facilities). The restaurants and cafes in the Bailgate seem upmarket than the ones down the hill in the city centre. In fact there were a couple homeless people sitting outside shops. So quite the variety there. I went and ate at Fourteen and had a lovely soup and sausages/potatoes.
Who is Bill Bailey?
In nearby Nettleham, there is the Bill Bailey Memorial Playing Fields, which is home to non-league Nettleham FC. I was thinking surely this can't be named after the all-round funny guy/troll/klingon Bill Bailey. He's not dead yet. Sure enough, it isn't. Bill Bailey was born in Somerset! Another amazing fact is that Axel Rose is also known as Bill Bailey.
Home Office Porn
The Home Office website had a link to a porn site caused by the fact the external link's domain expired and got bought by a different dubious company.
Solaris
0xdeadbeef (which is can be a hex value if you wish) looks like a good place to gather and demonstrate vulnerabilities with Solaris systems.
Tennis
Looks like Laura Robson may have suitable competition in the years to come in the form of 14 year old Madison Keys won on her WTA debut.
Sunday, 5 April 2009
Random Musings - Day #95
Got very drunk last night, tsk. Still feeling the effect. Not sure if my drink got spiked.
Also i notice someone tried to request a password on my poker account. I am always weary when that happens. On the surface, it seems nothing untoward. Unless there is a common way to construct the password... If you request the password over and over again. You may get a pattern.. Interesting I've just done it twice and notice the password starts with 'tmp' and has 9 characters in total.
Weird, I am on a National Express train and yet I feel so swedish (ip address = 217.28.34.132 (nsabfw1.nsab.se).
Funny how Luton won the Johnston Paints Football League Trophy and yet may well not be playing in the football league next season hence unlikely to defend it. At one time those hatters beat the mighty Arsenal in the league cup final of 1988.
Lady Gaga stays at #1 with Pokerface. Noisettes and "Don't Upset The Rhythm" is at #2. Ar Rahman and the pussycat dolls are at #3 with "Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)"
Also i notice someone tried to request a password on my poker account. I am always weary when that happens. On the surface, it seems nothing untoward. Unless there is a common way to construct the password... If you request the password over and over again. You may get a pattern.. Interesting I've just done it twice and notice the password starts with 'tmp' and has 9 characters in total.
Weird, I am on a National Express train and yet I feel so swedish (ip address = 217.28.34.132 (nsabfw1.nsab.se).
Funny how Luton won the Johnston Paints Football League Trophy and yet may well not be playing in the football league next season hence unlikely to defend it. At one time those hatters beat the mighty Arsenal in the league cup final of 1988.
Lady Gaga stays at #1 with Pokerface. Noisettes and "Don't Upset The Rhythm" is at #2. Ar Rahman and the pussycat dolls are at #3 with "Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)"
Saturday, 4 April 2009
Random Musings - Day #94
Grand National
Well it's the GRand National horse race today. Well in about 5 minutes in fact. I've gone for Offshore Account, Brooklyn Brownie, Himalayian Trail, Southern Vic, Golden Flight and Cerium (that was 500/1;)
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Well it's the GRand National horse race today. Well in about 5 minutes in fact. I've gone for Offshore Account, Brooklyn Brownie, Himalayian Trail, Southern Vic, Golden Flight and Cerium (that was 500/1;)
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Friday, 3 April 2009
Random Musings - Day #93
When I last looked the highly touted Europa Gym was still open for business.
Earn money fast by dancing (if male)
It looks like guys can get paid to dance because of so many women wanted to take ballroom dance classes after strict come dancing that they are sans partner. However I would take the article with a pinch of sale because the article was doing the rounds last month as in the evening standard and it looks like the same company, Simply Dance Partners were interviewed.
For your security
There's a useful benchmarking tool for Cisco routers and firewall.
Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) can be used to automagically set up system for specific jobs, e.g. DNS, mail, web, etc and autogenerate a policy for it.
Here's a precursor 'build your firewall rulebase' guide.
Earn money fast by dancing (if male)
It looks like guys can get paid to dance because of so many women wanted to take ballroom dance classes after strict come dancing that they are sans partner. However I would take the article with a pinch of sale because the article was doing the rounds last month as in the evening standard and it looks like the same company, Simply Dance Partners were interviewed.
For your security
There's a useful benchmarking tool for Cisco routers and firewall.
Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) can be used to automagically set up system for specific jobs, e.g. DNS, mail, web, etc and autogenerate a policy for it.
Here's a precursor 'build your firewall rulebase' guide.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Random Musings - Day #92
Just been having a look at next year Trinidad carnival and the dates that will be on Feb 15 and 16, 2010.
Open Source Vulnerability Database (osvdb) gives a comprehensive list of vulnerabilities that there has been.
Open Source Vulnerability Database (osvdb) gives a comprehensive list of vulnerabilities that there has been.
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Random Musings - Day #91
April Fools
April Fools Day is apparently not supposed to be a day long (only last until noon). Played a text joke, where I wrote something drastic but after some carriage returns, state that it was a joke;) The message on most screens chop off the message to read the first part only. However iphone and certain PDA's are immune to this.
Sutherland's about
I watched an interesting show about queens of British Pop. They included Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux and Kate Bush. The mysterious Bush was born in Bexleyheath but now lives in Devon. It's interesting that Donald Sutherland found time in his movie shooting schedule to appear in a couple of Kate Bush videos.
April Fools Day is apparently not supposed to be a day long (only last until noon). Played a text joke, where I wrote something drastic but after some carriage returns, state that it was a joke;) The message on most screens chop off the message to read the first part only. However iphone and certain PDA's are immune to this.
Sutherland's about
I watched an interesting show about queens of British Pop. They included Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux and Kate Bush. The mysterious Bush was born in Bexleyheath but now lives in Devon. It's interesting that Donald Sutherland found time in his movie shooting schedule to appear in a couple of Kate Bush videos.
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