Geoff Jones

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Ellee’s New Blog

Well after a lot of graft and steep learning curve (and a 23km walk to her house) I managed to get Ellee’s new wordpress blog up and running today. Really cool to be able to import her old blog with its over 200 posts and amazingly over 700 comments , all imported without a glitch (apart from small problem with wrapping around images).

For the technical out there I used:-
Tiga 1.0.1 theme as Ellee wanted three columns.
FlickrRSS plugin to get the rather smart random array of piccies along the top of the posts.
Giraffe AJAX calendar for fast moving between posts by date.
Akismet comment checking system to kill SPAM and pingbacks without moderation.
Role Manager for allowing different users to have different roles.
Subscribe Me to give all those rather neat RSS buttons etc
Ultimate Tag warrior so Ellee can tag her posts easily.
Sidebar Widgets to make it so easy to move the content of the sidebars around.
del.icio.us widget – doesnt seem to be working 🙁
Google search widget.

We also enabled the option to create posts directly from flickr. Which given elle’s passion for super large photographs should be really cool.

Paddys walk – London to Istanbul

Here is Paddy Morris tucking into a well deserved meal at Anthony’s birthday bbq last night, here in Les Gets. Paddy is about a third of the way on his walk from Trafalgar square to Istanbul which he started on May 8th 2006, yesterday he had walked into Morzine where he is taking a weeks rest before crossing the alps into Italy then cutting across to Trieste and downwards to Istanbul, hoping to arrive their in November.
His partner, Andy Ward, broke his leg a few weeks ago but is hoping to rejoin Paddy in Morzine.
Amazing tales of generosity of people met on his way and the crappiness of IGN maps (resulting in him walking for two days with no food as the promised villages were only hamlets!). Made me want to set off and join him.
Interestingly only the British Red Cross replied positively to his emails prior to the trip, even though he wasnt asking for any money!
Amazingly his father lives up the road from me in Cambridge. Posted by Picasa

NETGEAR Security Log [ac:a1:fd]

Fri, 2006-07-07 16:00:50 – Send E-mail Success!
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:32:36 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3 Destination:81.251.204.53 – [PORT SCAN]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:33:40 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46097 Destination:81.251.204.53,1080 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:34:43 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46098 Destination:81.251.204.53,1978 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:35:46 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3 Destination:81.251.204.53 – [PORT SCAN]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:36:49 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46084 Destination:81.251.204.53,808 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:37:52 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46086 Destination:81.251.204.53,1080 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:38:02 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46087 Destination:81.251.204.53,1978 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:38:13 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46088 Destination:81.251.204.53,3127 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:38:24 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46089 Destination:81.251.204.53,4777 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:38:36 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46090 Destination:81.251.204.53,7600 – [DOS]

Fri, 2006-07-07 16:39:01 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46097 Destination:81.251.204.53,1080 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:39:12 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3,46098 Destination:81.251.204.53,1978 – [DOS]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:39:22 – TCP Packet – Source:82.96.96.3 Destination:81.251.204.53 – [PORT SCAN]
Fri, 2006-07-07 16:39:42 – Send E-mail Success!
Fri, 2006-07-07 17:00:09 – unexpected reply: 472 geofones.netgear@blogger.com DNS server failure
Fri, 2006-07-07 18:00:08 – unexpected reply: 472 geofones.netgear@blogger.com DNS server failure
Fri, 2006-07-07 19:00:10 – unexpected reply: 472 geofones.netgear@blogger.com DNS server failure
Fri, 2006-07-07 20:00:09 – unexpected reply: 472 geofones.netgear@blogger.com DNS server failure