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Day: 17 August 2004

  • On The Importance Of A Firewall

    This is a graph showing the average amount of time between port scans against Windows boxen, and it's change from last year to this year. It's down from 40 minutes to 20 minutes over the last year.

    If we take this and assume a few things:

    (a) There will always be Windows security vulnerabilities - not an …

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  • Where Do They Make Balloons?



    So I come home from work on Monday evening to find my flat full of balloons. WTF???

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  • The ActionScript Jabberwocky

    This made me smile: The Jabberwocky in ActionScript (Macromedia Flash's scripting language). It's another one of those that you'll really need to be a proper geek to appreciate, but it's really quite good.

    Perhaps you need to be a Lewis Carrroll fan, as well...

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  • Image representing post: One Thousand, Two Thousand, Three Thousand… Check Canopy!

    One Thousand, Two Thousand, Three Thousand… Check Canopy!

    Wow: a most memorable weekend. As you'll remember, I spent the last weekend on a crash-course in parachuting in Lancashire. Having spent plenty of time in light aircraft or coasting around in a paraglider, I thought I had it sized: but it turned out to be even more spectacular (and scary) than I could have …

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