So long EE... and thanks for Nothing
I just posted this to EE's wall on Facebook. I expect they will delete it... they are a company in complete denial. =================== Well its time to say goodbye to EE. I'd like to say I'm sad that...
View ArticleAny Wich way you can
This is the planned route for our September trip. It includes doing the Droitwich Canals twice as we've never done it before and we're going to be changing some of the crew during the trip so this way...
View ArticleTo the South!!!
From Tom's Moorings to Brewood Visitor Moorings, a distance of 21 miles, 6¾ flg and 6 locks. Sitting in the Red Lion on Friday night we'd talked about what time we'd get up on Saturday morning and we...
View ArticleThings to do in Kinver when you're dead
From Brewood Visitor Moorings to Kinver Visitor Moorings, a distance of 20 miles, ¾ flg and 22 locks. It was a bright and sunny morning, unlike yesterday, when Mintball cast off. Mist was rising from...
View ArticleAnother Night at another Wharf
From Kinver Visitor Moorings to The Wharf Inn and Campsite, a distance of 16 miles, 3¼ flg and 14 locks. It was another rather chilly but sunny morning and once again mist rolled across the canal as we...
View ArticleUncharted waters
From The Wharf Inn and Campsite to Tibberton Visitor Moorings, a distance of 13 miles, 3¼ flg and 16 locks. Another cool and misty morning meant another good opportunity for some photos both before we...
View ArticleA Bad Case of Deja Vu
From Tibberton Visitor Moorings to Netherwich Basin, a distance of 15 miles, 4¼ flg and 25 locks. After a new nice cool misty mornings we woke up to a damp miserable one but luckily the rain had just...
View ArticleIt's uphill all the way....
From Netherwich Basin to Scarfield Hill Bridge No 60, a distance of 11 miles, 2½ flg and 50 locks. After the coldest night of the holiday we were all quite dreading getting up and getting going but it...
View ArticleIn search of Michael Pennington (Deceased)
From Scarfield Hill Bridge No 60 to Wolverhampton, a distance of 28 miles, 7¾ flg and 15 locks. I think it was a train on the line that runs right by the canal that woke us up and after doing the...
View ArticleIt's downhill all the way
From Wolverhampton to Norbury Bridge No 38, a distance of 17 miles, 6¾ flg and 23 locks. It was all a bit dull and gloomy when we got up the next morning to head off down the locks. There were a couple...
View ArticleA Surfeit of Bridges
From Norbury Bridge No 38 to Tom's Moorings, a distance of 11 miles, 2 flg and 5 locks. Mintball has done this trip so many times now that she could probably navigate it without us actually doing...
View ArticleFinal Proof that Semalt are rogue scum
This site, along with others I run, was swamped by traffic from Semalt in the past . Today the following article came to my attention which just confirms what I think myself and many other people had...
View ArticleOnce again - the spammers are very very odd.
This morning I apparently sent myself some spam. Who in their right mind would ever think that this wasn't spam when it arrives in their inbox?
View ArticleFail2ban tweaks
So I tweaked Fail2ban so it picked up failed SASL auth sesssion... There are a LOT of compromised machines out there: 2014-10-21 15:57:08,236 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 222.247.167.96...
View ArticleTodays list of scum
2014-10-23 04:39:51,514 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [apache-wplogin] Ban 198.23.155.76 2014-10-23 11:02:05,033 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 111.249.35.151 2014-10-23 12:44:57,061...
View ArticleScribbled notes on fixing bad blocks
#smartctl -t short /dev/sdb then #smartctl -a /dev/sdb SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline...
View ArticleBits and bobs
Although I should be working on getting all the data loaded into the Canalplan Boats Database I've not been making a lot of progress on getting the new data and the old data mapped into a new structure...
View ArticleSo first it was the Chinese, then it was the Brazillians. Now its Capita...
Capita - that company who the UK Government think can be trusted to run so much of our infrastructure can't apparently stop their own network from being used to attempt to hack servers: 31.222.208.86 -...
View ArticleCapita still allowing hacking from their network
So several days after reporting to Capita that they had a compromised machine on their network what do I see but the same IP address come back and start doing exactly the same thing. A search on the...
View ArticleThe stupidity of spammers
I've been using spambucket as a junk email address for quite some time - this is first time someone has ever actually sent email to it. [caption id="attachment_1462" align="alignnone" width="660"]...
View ArticleTotally lost for words
I use Akismet on this site to trap spam. But even if I didn't and I just relied on manually approving comments what sort of stupid idiot pays people to post rubbish like the following: Obviously its...
View Article2015
So it's 2015 and I thought that maybe I should start blogging properly. I'd already got my blog over on canalplan blogs but I got to thinking that maybe I should separate the two and make a blog site...
View ArticleWhat happened to January?
Seriously? Where did it go? One minute it was the start of January and the next it's suddenly February and I've not posted anything anywhere. I suppose the only positive thing I can say is that...
View ArticleMerging Sites
I looked at what was over on canalplan blogs and decided that actually pulling the couple of live blogs over to here and closing down that site was the best thing to do. So I exported and imported the...
View ArticleAre Spammers getting even thicker?
Or are they simply paying the people who spam such shit money that they can't even run a script properly? Look at this pile of crap that I found as a blocked comment today : [caption...
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