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The Pope railed against domestic violence and abortion, asking, “How can it be that domestic violence torments so many mothers and children? How can it be that the most wondrous and sacred human space, the womb, has become a place of unutterable violence?”

(smh)

How can it be that (fortunately very few) priests torment so many mothers and children, and the Catholic church tries to cover it up? How can it be that the guardians of the most wondrous and sacred human space, the womb, are marginalised by the church, their voices silenced, and rights trampled apon?

I hate it. It makes my skin crawl and my teeth grind. There’s a datafeed from which the wrong data is being extracted. I’ve shown them that the data is completely unreliable. I’ve written the code to get the correct data, but since they can’t sort out how to deal with the correct data, they want me to go back to the old version of the code and keep giving them gibberish.

Edited version:

I had a very frustating few days at work.

OK. You’re at work, and there’s a proxy+firewall stopping you from getting to an external site, or non-standard port you need to access (eg. software updates that are only accessable via FTP, which is blocked). So, how do you get around this?

As long as a connection performs a correct HTTPS CONNECT, the corporate proxy can’t tell what the traffic is. So I have a ssh daemon running on port 443 (the standard https port) on an external box, and use corkscrew to tunnel the SSH connection over https. Of course, you can then tunnel other protocols over ssh easily as needed.

I had previously tried to use proxytunnel but was having issues authenticating with the proxy server. This issue I resolved with ntlmaps, running on my laptop.

Well, yet again, I’ve had to move my website. Unfortunately, Lee discontinued his excellent cheap VPS hosting, so I’ve now moved to a vps at tektonic. I’ve also moved domain registration over there, and pointed the MX record at google. (Apps for domains). Ah. No more dealing with troublesome hosting providers. Still some details to finalise, but the scary task (moving Lara’s blog) should be easier since I had practice moving mine from leeware to here.

We did the final move-thing yesterday. Had to be at the old house at 6:30 am, then lots of stuff to do throughout the day (supervise movers, take a load of stuff to the tip, etc). I’m exhausted.

We’ve moved in. (sorta). Spent all weekend moving things from Denistone to Merrylands. Huge thanks to all those who helped out. Dad for the awesome chicken palace in the back yard (and Richard, before he had to run off and make an impulse buy of amansion. Thanks to Oliver (and Ben!) for the assistance with the new Ikea bed. And Sally, Peter, Bronwen, Mum, Candy, Mandy, Leaf, Ginevera, Mijal, Jane, and of course the fantastically fruity Andrew for all the assistance packing and moving. Finally, we moved the bunnies and cocky over.And since home is where the creatures are, we spent our first night in the new home last night. Still have packers coming today and movers tomorrow, to deal with big things like fridges.

We’re having a baby! We’re buying a house!And I’m still enjoying my new job (it’s not teaching!) even if I am working 11hr days.

OK, so i decided to try again with a blog. This is hosted on my virtual private server. The next big test will be to migrate Lara’s blog. Then I’ll move my dns server here, point the mx record to gmail, etc. All going well, I can ditch hostingshop and friends.

Why does a blog need a name? I spent ages trying to dream up the right name for my blog, and failing to find one, I decided … well, why not just go without.