Feb
19
2009
,
,
C. David Dent
,
Some time this week Verizon Fios stopped blocking port 80. I recently upgraded, and I don't know if it's a fluke or whether it is a by-product or whether they just figured "why bother?" but Wild and Bad is now free of port 8181.
Of course I'll continue to listen on 8181 for while longer, and that's just fine. But it isn't required any longer. At least for the moment. Hopefully longer.
I joined twitter. I must be crazy, but I did it. Now you can follow me on Twitter @MrDave2176. If you are into that sort of thing. I'll be following a few people at forst, and hopefully a I'll "get it" at some point. For now, I just sort of want to see if it is fun...or interesting..or both. I need to go back to work or something.
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Feb
13
2009
,
,
C. David Dent
,
My brother-in-law Peter sent some pix of the aftermath of the fire from his home in Horsham.
Hi Hezz,
It was great of you to phone the other day (night for you), thank you for thinking of us.
As promised, here are a few photos I took two days after the fire. They really just show how close it came to the town - for us it was 700 metres away but for others it was at their back fence or closer. Ten homes were lost and the golf club, a major centre in the Wimmera, burned down. Of course this all pales by comparison with other parts of Victoria, so far the death toll is 181.
Anyway, here are the photos of our rather blackened landscape.
Love,
Peter
You can click thse images to enlarge them. All these images are (c) Peter j. Ackroyd
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