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Jane’s Appeal End to End Challenge - Day 14Wednesday 23rd July, Retford To Wellingborough90 MilesIt was a slow day today. We started at 9pm and finished at about 7.30pm. Unbelievable therefore that we only managed 90 miles. What would Jane have said? I can’t explain why it took so long - perhaps a touch of the mid-ride blues. I managed to fall off [...]

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:48:21

DNS Flaw RevealedAfter a royal ’sphericals skyward’ by Matasano the other day, Metasploit have finally released an auxiliary module to their framework which exploits the flaw in the DNS protocol*. This is the same flaw that we rolled a fix for (ok, really a workaround, but fixing an entire protocol isn’t something which can be done in [...]

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:38:23

End of Day: 23rd of JulyCrikey. When the weather report was talking about a really hot Wednesday, I was expecting blue skies and sunshine, not a nasty grey, humid and sweltering day. Oh well, at least we have air con!Our EOD updates follow….Catherine from QAAn industrious day for QA as we all quietly beavered away on our respective [...]

Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:49:56

Jane’s Appeal End to End Challenge - Day 13Tuesday 22nd July, Leeds to Retford51 MilesIt was strange to be at home last night, although the reality was that of washing and sorting out suitcases. There was little time to spend with Steven.I had decided that as it was Steven’s last day at primary school I wouldn’t set off until he had finished, giving [...]

Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:01:27

End of Day: 22nd JulyAnother find day at PlusNet Towers, and I’ve been busy all day stuck into my work, and suddenly Colin reminds me I agreed to do the end-of-day again today…. Arrrggghhhh!Update number one is from James in Comms (they’re always quick getting their submission in):Hello! Comms here!Today we’ve been looking at problems. I’ve been looking at [...]

Posted on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:39:15

Jane’s Appeal End to End Challenge - Day 12Monday 21st July, Settle to Leeds43 milesToday was a special stage cycling form Settle to Leeds via Airton, Burnsall, Bolton Abbey and Otley Chevin. We got a civic send off in Settle which was fantastic. I grew up there and still feel that it’s my home town.As a special treat I decided that we would [...]

Posted on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:52:06

End of Day: 21st JulyIt’s unusual on a Monday for me to be writing the End of Day, but Tam’s not in today so someone has to do it. It’s actually been a surprisingly productive day, in some respects, getting lots of work done!First up, we have Chris from Comms:Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessss. Welcome one and all. This is the phenomonal comms [...]

Posted on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:58:52

Jane’s Appeal End to End Challenge - Day 10 & 11Saturday 19th July, Carlisle to Kirkby Stephen45 milesWe were joined by four guest riders, plus reporter Paul Ogden from the BBC, making us a party of nine. We are still awarding our virtual monkey and everybody staked a claim for winning it. After a dull and uninteresting day on Friday, Saturday was the complete reverse.A [...]

Posted on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:58:30

Jane’s Appeal End to End Challenge - Day 9Friday 18th July, Hawick to Carlisle40 MilesToday was unadventurous on the bike, miserable weather was our companion on route from Eskdalemuir. We stayed last night in Selkirk at the Heatherlie House Hotel and without doubt it’s been our best accommodation on the trip. Made to feel very welcome, a big discount was given and all [...]

Posted on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:48:42

End of Day: Friday 18th JulyWell it’s Friday all over again and as usual time is flying back at a rapid rate. How long before the shops start selling Christmas stuff? Back to school stuff first I guess.So what’s been going on during the course of this now, slightly sunny, Friday?Jen’s first with the End of Week from the HR [...]

Posted on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:18:44

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