17 December 2005
I got my first phishing spam email. And Gmail’s really cool – it flagged the message successfully as spam and a phishing message.
Here’s the contents of the email:
Sender: service@paypal.com
PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts in our system. We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information to help us provide you with secure service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
Why is my account access limited?
Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):
# Dec. 14, 2005: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.
(Your case ID for this reason is PP-123-181-817.)
How can I restore my account access?
Please visit the Resolution Center and complete the "Steps to Remove Limitations."
Completing all of the checklist items will automatically restore your account access.
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Information about FDIC pass-through insurance
The link in the email links to a forged PayPay login site which is not located at paypal.com, but rather at a foreign site fmkportal.hu which I found to be running Apache on SuSE (which was a completely useless find).
What a catch!
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16 December 2005
I’m really happy at the moment and I thought I’d celebrate the moment by blogging. In fact, the reason I’m happy is to do with blogging.
Well, Dad just fixed my permalinks (actually they seemed to have started working by themself but I’ll give you the credit 
). Well remember how they weren’t working before (See Plethora of Problems with Permalinks II)? I found out it was a problem with Apache not reading the .htaccess file properly.
I’m not really sure how the problem was fixed, but everything’s A-OK now!
Yay!
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10 December 2005
I’m writing this after a full day of reedmaking with my bassoon teacher. Yesterday he walked another student of his and me through the assembly of the reeds, the binding, and finally the adjusting. I only got three working reeds (and one got thrown in the bin) out of the five or so hours we spent, but I think it was worth it. as I now know how to make reeds at home and I have some basic adjusting skills.
It’s pretty complicated, but I’ll list an overview of the steps I was instructed:
Profiled cane is what I’m using at the moment. This basically looks like unfolded reeds. In fact, they are reeds before they are folded! If you were a really professional player, you would buy cane blanks and use a “profiling” machine with a metal “profile” to create the specific shape for your reeds.
Sanding is the first step. It’s not critically necessary, but some people do it. You lightly sand the inside of a strip of profiled cane.
Next, we create a step in the cane. Once again, not everybody does this step. See where the dark and light bits meet? We cut some of the wood out of that area to create a “step” between the barky cane and the thinner (lighter coloured) cane so that when the reed is bent around the reamer with the brass wire the split won’t go through to the thinner cane.
Now we score the barky part of the reed along the grain. This is, similar to the step, so that when we bend the reed around the reamer it won’t split it one place, but spread the cracks around the reed evenly.
Now it’s time to fold the reed over so it starts to look more like a bassoon reed. You insert the reed onto the reamer and tie the wires around it (first the top one, then the bottom, then the middle). You will then notice that the reed forms its familiar shape.
Oh no, now it’s time for binding. Er, it’s hard to describe, but you should be able to figure it out by looking at an already-made reed.
There you have it.
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8 December 2005
Okay, I managed to get my .htaccess file to be written by WordPress (but I can’t remember how I did it) and uploads working. Maybe if you are really nice to me I’ll give you an account on my blog with privilege level 6 so you can use our server as a free image hosting service 
. Hang on, where was I? Oh yeah…
Now mod_rewrite seems to have died as a result of my changing the server configuration from /jeremy being an alias to a symlink in both /var/www/inside and /var/www/outside.
That’s a little job I’ll have to do when I get the admin script working on my guestbook.
And I want to change my URLs. I really don’t like the /jeremy/whatever subdirectory format that I’ve got set up. I’ll probably register one or two more No-IP DNS names and set up Virtual Servers on the web server.
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1 December 2005
Well, summer’s officially here and boy it doesn’t feel like it. The sky is white and it’s been raining all week, so the crater’s been filling up right to the point of overflowing so the duck has been having a bit of a swim.
We had hail yesterday at our house while we were out shopping and when we came back, there were white patches all over the ground – just like snow! That’s actually what we thought it was at first. (But hail and snow is basically the same thing anyway – just ice.) It also hailed at Camden for an hour today.
Hopefully we won’t be getting bushfires around here this year, like we did in 2001 or 2002, can’t remember which year.
Only 24 sleeps till Christmas now!
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