01.01.2004
New Years Day
Midnight on 31/12 down the south coast is normally very noisy - people partying, running around until the wee small hours etc etc - except for this year. Very quiet indeed. Had some friends over and had excellent food, wine and company until we saw the new year in (so to speak).
A very nice looking day down here - the beach is already starting to call me 
The water temperature has been perfect down here and I’m looking forward to spending a fair amount of time in the surf again.
Had to go to work on Monday and Tuesday - but was able to see Return of the King late Monday afternoon - it was truly truly stunning. An amazing achievement, perfectly executed and brought to life. I sat spellbound for the whole time - if anything, it almost seemed a little short, rather than the length that some people have commented on. I need to see it again….
Did the 218 exam on Tuesday and passed Somehow got a score of 1025 which I don’t understand - I thought the maximum was 1000 but anyway, it really doesn’t matter. That gets me MCSA, only 1 more exam to MCSE.
Now its time to catch up on the world and see whats happening.
Some links of interest:
- Snort have a new version out - 2.1 which I have downloaded and intend installing in a bit.
- Snortalong is also up to a new version - very nice perl script that one and extremely useful for looking at snort logs.
- Version 1.8 of rawdog has been released - this is a rss aggregator that produces a html page and can be run from cron. I use it instead of the normal aggregators as I can access the data from anywhere (which suits my circumstances very well).
And now it is time to head down the beach.