So, it's December. I've got a job interview tomorrow, I should go to bed.

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After much effort sitting around and doing nothing, I have finally managed one of life's great achievements: To get an TLS/SASL authing SMTP server up and running. Wow! Go me! Yay!

God I'm bored.

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To update those of you who think I'm dead, I'm not. I've just not bothered writing any new entries.

Until now!!!!!!!

We found a mouse this evening. Sitting down, finishing up dinner, a small brown fluffy thing was spotted scuttling across the living room floor. It was instantly named Bernie and so started a 2-hour drama of trying to catch the mouse. We (actually, I like to take the credit) nearly succeeded. After some of the more masculine members of this household had gone through the "standing on a chair screaming" routine, and after some comical moments involving apricot cheese, I managed to corner it, somewhere behind my bass case. After removing said case, Bernie looked a bit startled, and then did nothing. This surprised me, having expected Bernie to run.

Taking this opportunity of immobility on Bernie's part, a barricade was built consisting of a shirt box, and a large ring binder. It was a perfect cage.

Except we forgot that mice can climb. Bernie finally decided he (she?) could move and had a wonder round the new enclosure, before deciding to just climb out of it and run away. He was never seen again. We searched long and hard, but eventually concluded that he must have vanished down one of the 30,000 holes that exist in our floorboards.

After that, life returned to normal, and I did the washing up.

Financial donations via Paypal to paypal@growse.com please. Or just send me a cheque.

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Well, only a week until Christmas now, and it's not even snowing. I'm informed that cities keep warmer than other places (like the north), and so it'll possibly never snow here. But that's not relevant, because I'm up north in a few days, with the snow :)

It is rather cold though, and I still have to buy people chocolate, and other such nice things.

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Well, it's Christmas eve, and this is my last entry before Christmas day. I'm 173cm, weigh 11st 1lb, and have a blood pressure of 120/70. I expect those to all be larger (except possibly height) two days from now, as much foodage is anticipated.

I'm near Manchester, and they think it's going to snow, but only for a day. After that, Wales. Where it probably won't snow near the cost. But it'll be cold and subsequently fun trying to light a fire on a beach. Maybe.

Before all of that happens, I still have work to do. Go me!

Oh, and a Happy Christmas to all :)

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Well, as some of you might have guessed, Notnet were hacked. I've just managed to get round to restoring the main pages and scripts which were got rid of, and now everything should work properly. Having spent the last 2 hours trying to break into my own server, I was slightly taken aback when I actually succeeded. Oh well. Something to fix I suppose.

For those that are interested, I had a very nice Christmas, with lots of chocolate and other such lovely things (women, wine etc). I'm off to Wales in a few days to enjoy new year on the beach there. People tell me it's going to be cold, but I don't believe them. Not in January, on the north cost.But for the first time in a very very long time, I managed to see snow yesterday. I should explain. I live in what's called the "south". This is a very nice place with very few strange people. However, it doesn't snow much, least of all on Christmas Day. However, for the past few days (including Christmas), I have been inhabiting an area near the "south", called the "north". Here, the people are slightly more strange, talk funny, and generally experience more snow. It was pretty :)

Now I need to go fix a bunch of stuff that broke.

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I did a very stupid thing.

<geek>For some strange reason, my ability to ssh into my server is reliant on the firewall setting the outgoing TOS to 0x0 (normal service). Stupidly, I logged into the server and stopped the firewall, instantly shutting down ssh leaving me no way to get back in and put the firewall back up.It took a long time, but through some very strange and convoluted method, I managed to get back in. This invovlved a hacked telnet daemon and client, some cunningness with samba, and a hope that php wouldn't die. Oddly enough, it worked. It's not broken any more. Other things still are though.</geek>

For the rest of everyone, I'm going to Wales! Tomorrow! Because it's cold there and they have a beach!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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