Okies - my new site is starting to look a little more homely and “Blog” like now, just added the Archive Calender, which was soooo missing….and now I am nearly happy. Gonna play around with a few more scripts before the night is out (including your one Kanenas ) - I really like this site now.

For the past few days I have been suffering SYN DoS and Smurf woes everytime I have tried to update this site specifically; so someone out there must really have a grudge. Anyhoo - Did a thourough disinfection on my machine which started last night and finished at some point today, I’m not sure exactly when because I’m not entirely awake right now. In this process however, I identified three seperate Trojans on my comp - two of which were the Keylogger variety.

Suffice it to say, things have now been changed. I have disconnected my Internet, Cleaned, and changed my local LAN range to a different IP range altogether. I have closed down the Bubble Cam indefinitley; as I suspect having a port open for that was part of my mistake. Effectively turning me into an easy target.

Sheesh!? There are more interesting targets out there - why come after me? Is it common place for Bloggers to be hacked and denied service when trying to update their sites? Anyone else have this problem?

Nah….you are all probably far smarter than me. By using a free Blog host (with advertising nine times out of ten - ANNOYANCE EXTREME) that takes a lot of the hassle away from you.

Sigh….well - apart from the trojans, I then found over 200 (yes that’s right I’ve been lazy for a few weeks) varieties of Spyware; the majority harmless marketing stuff but some surprising little sneaks were in the list also.

I have now set up a new “House-Cleaning” routine that will see this sort of occurance dramatically reduced.

My countdown to birthday has now officially started!

Please feel free to check the counter every now and then, so as you DON’T MISS IT

I feel like a ten ton truck has hit me today, just goes to show how unfit I am. I went to the aid of a damsel in distress last night; in order toplay the role of removal man; which soon degenerated to moving boy, then finally gibbering mess. Nah - it didn’t go that bad at all really! TEAMWORK < -- -- That's what can make "anything" happen.

It's a shame so many employers are ignorant of this. Or take it too much for granted. Anyways, for a change I am not going to step on my soap-box. I am going to switch off and put my feet up in front of the telly. Have a good weekend everyone! If anything interesting happens in the meantime I will be sure to let you know.

On a scary note, it's hard to think it's LESS THAN ( < for all you maths geeks ) 50 days to Christmas, and far more importantly my birthday (yippee!) More an that closer to the time though.

Laterz…….

Edit - ok! I suck at math, my 50 day reckoning was a couple out I admit….sigh.

….yup!! And Yikes! Already every single penny is spoken for….so much for the comfortable life. Being a single home owner is not all it’s cracked up to be. I guess I will have to sacrifice my social life completely this month. So I can at least have a half decent time at Christmas.

I am now completely depressed.

I either need -

1) A Pay rise
2) A better job
3) A lottery win
4) A Rich Wife

Or

5) Sell the house and start all over again. (My least favourite but one I am forced to consider)

…sigh.