• RT: @cyanogen: CyanogenMod-4.2.11 is out! http://bit.ly/8O4OsR Get it with CM updater! (XDA Thread: http://bit.ly/19rv2O) #
• Oliebollen! Nom nom! http://twitpic.com/wchwo #fb #
• Dutch delights Chocolade vla /w slagroom (/w whipped cream) http://twitpic.com/wirzw #fb #

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• Taken off my project for the 4 days of this wee & put on standby. What to do with my time? Time to finish that 2nd sleigh! #fb #
• Out clubbing (fancy pub). Kids @ the in-laws so free to party. Need to get up at 7 tho. Suppose time will tell… #
• Gearing up to head out to Feltham to stage some WAAS equipment. Hope I get there in one piece, it's a horrid place to get to. #fb #in #
• Arrived in NL safely. Time to enjoy 'new years' the Dutch way Friends, good food, oliebollen & fireworks #fb #in #

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• Finally time for bed. tablet is now 100% working under #ubuntu #karmic w pressure sensitivity in both #inkscape (easy) and #gimp (hard) #in #
• Follow @Drobo to win a FREE Drobo S! http://bit.ly/5tejIU #
• Any1 looking for new #Android phone? 'll have 1 to sell soon, contact me now & you can still choose the model. Will b from T-mobile. pls RT #
• Selling a brand new T-mobile #G2 fresh from shop 2day. w/o sim card as all I wanted was the contract… please RT #android #phone #sale (UK) #
• Weather warning in place it's just started snowing. Should I go 2 London for company xmas pub drinks? Or stay @ home w warm log fire? #snow #
• Just discovered that #skype now support text substitution! s/ha/har will change "haha" into "harhar" & prepend a little pencil icon #fb #in #
• RT: @cyanogen: RT @FHL09 #Android should be a trend so ALL #Android supporters RT this if you agree. #
• Loads of snow in #hitchin, need to find a decent hill to sleigh down after lunch with the boys #uksnow #
• Looking 2 buy Vredestein Quatrac 2 tyres, also need some steel rims 4 them. It's harder to get the tyres here in the UK than 1 would think #
• Catching up to work after a day spent with the kids enjoying the snow #fb #in #
• Heading 2 friends party. Followed by preparing 4 leading worship tmr moin. Been sledging @ Royston w the kids, short but sweet. #fb #uksnow #

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• Running outlook 'native' #Crossover (#wine) & turned #virtualbox VM off. Visio seems to work as well, not used it yet but it starts #in #
• Grrr! Why can't #cisco just list on cco if the NMD-36ESW supports mtu >1500 ?! #
• Just wondering, is there ANY #android phone w a front facing camera yet? Would love to see a working #SIP solution 4 video calling #in #
• Off 2 bed… Sam came home fr sch w dirty clothes, had 2 wash & dry his uniform as other 1 was dirty 2. & I stained the sleigh #fb #
• 3 more days till my gorgeous wife is back home. Can't wait to see her again! Dearly missed doesn't even come close to how I feel… #fb #
• Listening to Christmas carols performed by Red on #spotify. Would it then finally be that Christmas is nearly upon us? #fb #
• RT: @adrianwarnock: Effects of Pornography – EdStetzer.com: I do love it when a scientific study shows what we all … http://bit.ly/5veq5r #
• Cool #Google #Goggles, installing now. I wonder how well it works… #
• Why is #facebook more happy thinking my browser is FF2.0 4 Lin than FF3.5 4 Linux?! Get with it, why do I have 2 jump through hoops 2 chat? #
• Relaxing w an open rose from the fridge time for me… #fb #
• Just off the phone to mrs Geurts, man I miss her! Only two days to go till she's home #fb #
• 2nd time in 1 week my 6yr old is crying & cleaning his muddy shoes after coming home from school. Am I a good or a mean father? #fb #

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• RT: @steviesmith: a problem w renting is that landlords don't often think insulation is a worthwhile investment // Energy labels 4 rentals? #
• Win a new Canon 7D (or 2500 photo scans) from @ScanCafe & Scott Bourne. Pls RT. Details here: http://bit.ly/dgYgA #
• Working late making up for some lost time socialising with my parents and kids earlier today… #fb #
• Right, high time I'm off to bed now. Need some real shut eye. gnight to all! #fb #
• Another great day! Talked 2 long friend Tim Steinke, Took boys 2 bday party. Then celebrated #Sinterklaas w folks, bro+ & kids. Need Zzz #fb #

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• #Companionlink for #Google just erased my entire Google calendar. great I now have loads of time to do whatever I want! #fail #outlook #sync #
• Oh and when on the subject. When will #Evolution support #Google calendar group/category mapping…? #
• Anyone out there who has managed to get #fring to work on a G1? Can't seem to get it working, won't login and let me use the app #android #
• My youngest as a robot. http://twitpic.com/r5c08 #fb #
• Taking my wife to the airport for her 2 weeks in Oz. Going to be weird, fun & scary with just us 3 boys @ home. #fb #
• Primary school, Christmas disco. Quite profitable actually… http://twitpic.com/r7cqf #fb #

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• RT: @ianjukes: It feels like an army of young gospel-motivated techies & creative people r emerging within @Newfrontiers & that excites me in reply to ianjukes #
• gamexchanger.co.uk doesn't work on #Firefox 3.5.5 #fail MS VBscript runtime error, why do people not use #apache? #
• Hmm, work has just been put on hold till meeting tmr moin. Maybe this is a good time at an attempt to get #debian on my #dell #axim x50v #fb #
• hmmm, not sure if I like this new RT thingy, I'm on the beta and yes it's easy but it doesn't show up in my (home) stream. #twitter #RT #
• Aaargh! Why can't #Evolution contact categories be synced to Google contact groups?! #ubuntu #
• After much hassle with #wine today (it ran very well till the last update to 1.1.33) now moved to #Crossover for linux, very pleased so far! #
• Excel runs faster on (#wine/#crossover) #linux than it does on #windows. Woohoo! #
• RT @ianjukes: The @Newfrontiers website has moved to a new domain http://www.newfrontierstogether.org // Pass on the news! #fb #newfrontier #
• RT @anthonysomerset the @newfrontiers UK site has moved, it is now found at http://newfrontiersuk.org #fb #newfrontiers #

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• What's with all the twitter scares? 2nd time twitter forces me to change my password. It's not funny, phones sites etc all need 2b changed #
• Have #LinkedIn hooked up 2 twitter now, suppose I'll have 2 start tweeting more again now. If only interesting stuff happened @ work #in #
• Looks like today is update day for me. #Wordpress 2.8.6 and #ispconfig 2.2.34 #
• Watching skiing w my 2 boys, yay for lazy Saturdays. Mrs out on training, male only house atm #fb #

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• Doing some data house-keeping before heading into work for meetings. Better head off pending requests before leaving home… #
• Looking at a week away from the kids… #flymeto the Italian Dolomites #
• #flymeto Colorado, am desperate for a snow fix this winter. The Italian Alps will do as well #
• #Cisco can be so helpful: "support a maximum MTU size of 1500 or 1546 bytes". So what is the maximum on an NME-16ES?! http://bit.ly/29T3kp #
• Pls put #royalmail out o their misery! If I call it's because I can't do it online, don't refer me to ur website for 6 min on an 0845 nr #fb #
• Ahh, there is a list to choose from, silly me! #flymeto Chicago! Want to see an old friend and his #church plant. http://bit.ly/flymeto #
• Anywhere in the world? Wow! #flymeto New Zealand, On the slopes all day & a BBQ on the beach in the evening. Please let me surprise my wife! #
• RT: @ianjukes: Still wondering when the @newday2009 album No Shout Too Loud will be on iTunes? // What about #Spotify? in reply to ianjukes #
• Oh to see Table Mountain again and introduce my wife and kids to a refreshing culture & friendships forged ages ago. Pls #flymeto Cape Town! #
• RT: @steviesmith: This is amusing http://bit.ly/2IQxha – space invaders game that deletes Mac files as you play (as informed upfront) // LOL #
• Suggestions welcome for a good twitter account name for the Courtyard #Hitchin #church #plant #newfrontiers #fb #
• #flymeto the weekend, have had enough of this week and need sleep #
• Finally received the #Cisco switch to replace the network spaghetti at the school mrs Geurts is managing. I love #ebay! Will it fire up? #
• Still waiting for the sdcard readers I bought off ebay for 1.49 each incl S/H to do a SD card hack on my linksys WAP54G. #

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• Josh under general aneastetic, weird to see your own kids go under. Doesn't seem fair really. Should be out soon, only a minor op. #fb #
• Working late to compensate for today's time spent in hospital w Josh. He did really well, He's a v brave little boy. #fb #
• RT: @cyanogen: Direct link for 4.2.2 XDA thread: http://bit.ly/19rv2O #android // just upgraded from CM-4.0.4 looking v good so far #
• Just had an x-ray done & now waiting for an adhoc MRSA bug check. Might have hospital withdrawl symptoms tmr, been in for 3 days now… #fb #
• Hope I'll make my 10:00 meeting @ work. Need to finish this project asap, can only do so much non-stop documentation… #
• Been on twitter for a bit now and still don't know what #followfriday is. 140 character explanation anyone? #
• Paying for my slumber this afternoon by working now, the hours must be made… #
• Anyone else suffering from FC of the stock browser on CM-422? #cyanogen #CM #android #
• RT: @AndroidSocMedia: Android 2.0 will feature turn by turn navigation on Google Maps! That's what I'm talking about! // Beat that #iPhone #
• Wow, completely missed the EOL announcement on Agilent N2X. 2015 sounds like a long time, #Spirent puts it this way: http://bit.ly/1TEpin #
• RT @cyanogen CyanogenMod-4.2.3 is out! http://bit.ly/11U4wy USB Tether, BT OBEX, yum yum #android // Yay, cmupdater doesn't see it yet #
• Has anyone got a solution for md5 response error on cmupdater? Same for theme DL. #cyanogen #android #
• Cmupdater md5 issue gone after reboot. Thought I'd tried that already, sometimes things just don't make sense #cyanogen cm-4231 yay #android #
• Back from a long walk w the boys to the site of a Roman villa http://twitpic.com/no95a they must have loved the outdoors…. #fb #
• Yay, #android browser FC issue resolved by clearing the application data. http://bit.ly/4588LJ post 299. #

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• Desperately seeking Lawrence Hurter, not sure if his mobile nr has changed or if he's on holiday… #fb #
• How is it that #hackers manage to pin point the exact time that I'm ill to actually do something serious… #ill #fb #
• #Skype on #Ubuntu #Jaunty == cpu hog. Seems that regularly when I turn my back on my laptop, Skype feels the need to take 100% cpu. #fail #
• switched to skype-static-oss so far so good #skype #ubuntu #jaunty #
• All #security updates done. Now I can write about how 2 sites I host were defaced by a #1923turk-grup member & how I kicked him out #fb #
• Testing TweetSuite Wordpress plugin #
• How do I set #storcon as configured in #apt or #dpkg? Current status is half-configured, want to get rid of error running #aptitude #ubuntu #

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TweetSuite didn’t post a link to the article/post so trying twitter tools now. Feels a lot more mature in the admin department so far…

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If all goes well this post should be tweeted. Sorry for the spam…

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Two days ago my wife was notified by one of her customers of a defacement of their site. Obviously this kinda stuff always happens when I’m ill and the last thing I want to be doing is dealing with some random hacker. This post is about what I found and how this should motivate people to at all times update their websites with the latest security fixes and practices.

As far as I’m aware no sensitive data was access nor was any serious damage done other than a few index.html files over written. The only real loss is the joomla site that was broken into as the owner is on holiday and hadn’t updated it for a while, suffice to say it’s down for the time being.

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Type-2 interconnects are fun, but mtu issues are not. When faced with migrating subnets  from one MPLS cloud to another -different AS numbers you see- the three common inter-AS types were taken off the shelf and dusted off…

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