Great Grammatical Gadzooks!

January 9th, 2009 beezly 2 comments

I found this great grammatical double-whammy whilst finding an air filter.

The Citreon Witch

I’ll be sure to look for the Witch under my driver’s chair when I get home tonight

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Rock Star!

December 8th, 2008 beezly No comments

I’m a rockstar! Also available from all good digital music outlets.

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Planning for Snow

December 3rd, 2008 beezly No comments

I like snow. It snowed a little yesterday (see here, here, here and here) which made getting to work very slow. A journey that normally takes me 1 hour took 3, mainly because of traffic and poor driving (high power, rear wheel drive cars with sports tyres don’t like the snow). However, tomorrows forecast is for significant snowfall, so I’ve spent some time at work helping the business to prepare for the bad weather. Those who need remote access to systems have it and we have put in place plans to deal with answering telephone systems and calls.

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Chuckle

November 21st, 2008 beezly No comments

Today's Dilbert

Made me laugh

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Goodbye Suffolk, Goodbye io global

November 8th, 2008 beezly No comments

Evil Jane Yesterday I left io global and Suffolk to move back to Holmfirth. I’m going to be working for 2ergo just north of Manchester from the 17th November (Happy Birthday Edie!). I’m really looking forward to the move back up, most of my stuff is already there.

This weekend I am in London at a gig at the Bullet Bar in Camden, followed by a short gig at the Music Live event at the NEC. I’m really looking forward to them both, but the band is something I’m going to miss dreadfully. My last gig with them is on December 6th. I’ll post more details when I know them, but for HILDA folks, I think there is a HILDA organised that day potentially.

So goodbye Suffolk and goodbye io global. I’ve got lots of happy memories – like the time that Jane stapled my arm (photo!) I’ve met some great people and I’m sure I’ll keep in touch with a good number of them for a long, long time.

More Adastral Park Pentesting

November 6th, 2008 beezly No comments

Exhibit C


Yesterday’s assault on security was accomplished using a flat cap. By ‘eck.

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Bad show HMV

November 6th, 2008 beezly Comments off

Unfortunately 20% of people on the internet won’t be able to view your site.

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Pentesting Adastral Park

November 4th, 2008 beezly 6 comments

The site I work on is supposed to fairly secure. I don’t mean “security with machine guns” secure, but I do mean “ID required to get on site” secure. However, on my motorbike I have never had to show ID to get on site. So, now my bike is in Yorkshire and I’m having to use my car, I thought I would see how easy it is to get on site without showing valid site ID.

Monday – Exhibit A

Exhibit A


I waved an old Visa card at the security guard as I drove in. He waved me through.

Tuesday – Exhibit B

Exhibit B

I waved an empty Tropicana Orange Juice bottle at the security guard as I drove in. He waved me through.

More to come…

If anyone has suggestions to other things I could use to get on site, please add a comment!

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Useful article on VMware Server Performance

October 16th, 2008 beezly Comments off

I found this article on tweaks when running VMware Server on a Linux host very useful. Some simple changes that have made a quite a difference to our internal VMware servers.

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A word to vehicle insurance companies…

October 14th, 2008 beezly No comments

Unless you automatically offer me your very best quote on my renewal, I will take insurance from someone else.

My insurers had the cheek to increase my premiums by twenty quid, even though I now have a year’s no claims bonus more than the previous year. When I check on their website, the quote comes in far lower than the renewal quote.

So now, I’ve changed my insurer.. saved myself £80 and reduced my excess.

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