There’s an interesting security challenge laid down by the MCP Techmentor summit on Security where they invite you to hack their webserver. The hacking attempts will be recorded and analysed at the conference and later published on a cd rom. Sounds really interesting – just wish I could have got to the conference! Hopefully i’ll be able to get hold of a copy of the results via work!

I wish my digital camera was working 🙁
We had a new addition to the family called Milo – a tabby kitten about 8 weeks old. Winston and Frankie are being the older brothers and not sure how to react to him, although he reckons he rules the roost (at least when he’s not asleep that is!) Unfortunately the digital camera won’t focus and take pictures and I can’t get the webcam to capture the images – they appear ok in the picture program, but it won’t save individual pictures – however, keep an eye on the web page as I doubt it will be very long before he stars on his own web page.

Nice to see that BT are on the ball. Today I got a letter saying “I wanted you to be one of the first to know that BT Broadband is available now. In fact, you could order it online today, even before the service is advertised on TV”. Seeing as though i’ve had broadband for two weeks I think their marketing people need to a) check their customer database to send stuff out to eligible people and b) make sure that their customer services/marketing peeps are one of the first people to know when technology is available. Yet another reason why BT are incompetent.

Parking Clowns are the new breed of traffic wardens in Canterbury – totally over zealous with as much devotiion to duty as to their effort to raise funds through the fines. An interesting website that has been harassed by the local police several times due to their opinions being voiced – support the website!

In case you are wondering what the icon is about, its a blogchalk – something that allows people to search for blogs within their locality. Click on the link for more information.

There’s a new kid on the blog! WebCrimson (weird name) looks like an alternative to blogger…..

Learn Danish and have a laugh whilst you are doing so – watch the cow keep fit. The site is in Danish, but its fairly obvious what to do.

Had an email back from symantec today – the version of Ghost that I had been using to restore selected files from an image had not worked. The email contained a new copy of Ghost Explorer that does the job. I can now restore all files from an image using ghost explorer….shame that I’ve already re-installed the laptop though 🙁

Finally finished the office – the wooden flooring went in today and finally finished about 5pm. I’m shattered now, but very pleased with the results as it looks really good. Tried moving the computer desk back into the room and the wheel on the desk broke off – so i’m going to have to try and get some new wheels from somewhere. I was really grateful for the Black and Decker Quatro and workmate that I got for Christmas. They had their first real use today – so much so that I had to stop half way through and recharge the battery, but with only an hour charging time, I was able to have lunch whilst I was waiting so no time wasted!

Found a useful app called Watchcat that enables you to hide applications to the system tray either from a mouse click, or even on a timer if the application has not been used for a certain time. Looks pretty good.

Also found an app called DailyRotation that sits in the system tray. Clicking on it takes your browser to the next url in the list. Although its not got a good User Interface to add URL’s, once you’ve set it up it works very well.

Both these apps are freeware too!