Tag: Stuff

I spent several nights over the last two weeks helping out with Mt Lilydale’s production of the Musical Barnum. I was originally asked by Casey Welch, whom I knew from her lead role in the college play, Wednesday, to help out to support the Outdoor Ed teacher, Mr Peter Barnett, with the safety rope work on a couple of the scenes, but I soon turned into to a Jack of All trades, and assistant to the wonderful backstage props manager, Tash Ciampoli.

The performances went off fantastically, and just about everyone remembered their lines and made it on to the stage at the right time… As I was backstage for all of the performances, I’m anxiously waiting for the video to be edited so that I can see what everything looked like from out front, rather than sideways.

I’ve spent a bit of time since we finished wondering what it is I like about plays & musicals, especially as I have no singing talent whatsoever, but I think I’m starting to realise that we all have our own gifts and that I can be really useful using my talent for organisation, leadership and encouragement to help those that can really sing and act. I also get lots of recognition & appreciation for what I’m doing, which I’m not getting at work at the moment

Will Mithen, who did a great job playing the lead role of P.T. Barnum, was talking at the after party about a group called something like the Mt Lilydale Players, an ex-student theatrical group that he was either thinking of joining or starting to keep things going. There is a huge talent, especially in the current crop of Yr 12’s and the school is going to really miss them next year, but I’m sure it will be a wonderful opportunity for some new talent to blossom.

Today I found the html tag &lt::abbr title=Full Name”&gt::Abbreviation&lt::/abbr&gt:: which is used to expand on abbreviations. For example, I live in the state of VIC, which displays VIC, but when you hold the cursor over it in a html 4.01 compliant browser, it displays Victoria. In order to write this page, I also had to relearn howto display html using & lt:: and & gt:: to display < and >. All rather neat.

I’ve finally gone the whole hog and moved the front page of my web site over to Drumknott so that it really looks like I update my web page (which I do). The old page is now archived as about me.

It has been a long a frustrating couple of days.

On Monday afternoon a bit after 2pm, three emails turned up in my mail box with the ip address of this server as the subject. This made me instantly suspicious, so I ssh’d into the server and found it had been hacked. I downed it straight away to avoid further problems, but I already had problems enough. Someone using ManiaC r00tkit had got in and defaced the main web page among other things.

We ended up rebuilding the server Monday night, and got all the we pages back up, but there was a problem with email until Wednesday lunchtime. Much more work needs to be done on hardeneing the system. The new server is already more secure, and it will get better.

Tonight I’ve moved Everything over to Drumknott, The new Blog thingie Jase has written. Everything from before this is copied over, the rest in new.There is a bit of a gap, because I’ve lost interest in blogging (drumming) while I’ve been gearing up for the change.

I borrowed one of the projectors from work for the weekend and we watched Miss Congeniality with Sandra Bullock on friday on DVD on the big screen, On Saturday we bought and watched Charlies Angels and a few taped TV shows and Sunday night we decided to see The Matrix (again, but you can’t see it too often)

Bern’s knee seems to be getting better, she can now drive agin. She had an MRI on Friday, and should have more information when she sees the doctor on Monday.

It’s my birthday and I’ll Blog if I want to… Happy 29th Birthday to me. This is my Blog on my corner of the Web and I’ll be as self indulgent as I want to.I found out why Bernie wanted my Palm Pilot, she was making the cover for it that she had been going to make for months. It is very nice too, Dark Green Vinyl with leather stitching. She also organised a week off work for me and booked us into a place in Halls Gap. It should be a nice relaxing break, probably just what I need, lots of trees, stars, open fireplaces, my laptop… There was even some marshmallows to toast over the fire and nice bottle of Port to sit back and sip.Extra kudos to Bern & Jase & Mon who organised for me to lend Jase & Mon some money a few weeks ago, and it turns out that was for the place in Halls Gap, so Bern could get it through without me seeing it.Time to go.