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Instructions on how to clean your toilet

1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the
water in the bowl.

2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the
bathroom.

3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids.
You may need to stand on the lid.

4. The cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises
that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying himself.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a “power-wash and
rinse”.

6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are
no people between the bathroom and the front door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.

8. The cat will then rocket out of the toilet and streak outside where
he will proceed to dry himself off.

9. Both the commode and the cat will now be sparkling clean.

Sincerely,

The Dog

Being applying for a couple of jobs and had an interview that came to nought, so too busy to really update any PC stuff, other than patch the server with the latest security updates.

H has pretty much mastered Windows now and quite happily sits on “her” pc and plays the few educational games on their, or browses the Ceebies site. Thankfully I updated the router a few weeks ago and this has some basic content filtering to cover the moments when I an not there, but will need to look for a more robust solution over the next few months.

H also has the hospital on Friday to examine her ear, make sure no lasting damage from her recent ear infection, so likely to be another weekend far removed from the keyboard.

Gloucester RFC finished top of the league for the domestic season, but the 57 old farts still at the RFU still don’t beleive thats enough after 22 games and force a further 2 knock-out games on the top teams to decide who gets the silverware. Glos play Liecester at Twickers this Saturday in the final decider.. .. So come on Glos… Do us proud.

Couple of techy updates. Bought a new Linksys router to replace the one that has given at least 5 years sterling service. Now that the kids are online I wanted something that was a big more robust and had some parental controls. As I host this website at home I wanted a router that did Loopback. (this is the ability of a router to apply a dynamic hostname back to itself and still present the content as the general public see it). It seems to be a feature lacking on a number of routers, especially all the ADSL ones I have had the misfortune to come across, so if you try and view your own domain name, all you get is your Router config page! Suffice to say, the Linksys WRT54GS does support loopback, (and on multiple firmware as I have already patched to the latest version).

By disabling the gateway mode on the old BEFSR41 and connecting it via the uplink port to the WRT54GS, I effectively have a 7 port router in the office to connect the upstairs and downstairs segments of my home network. The old Buffalo AirStation has been moved into the loft to provide a 2nd Wifi cloud, basically acting as another router and Access point for upstairs. This is probably complete overkill, but hey it works and cost me nothing.

The other key success was getting the reverse DNS working again on the server. Without RDNS you can’t run a proper caching server for the rest of the home network. With this fixed, my home pc’s have the local server set as their 1st DNS entry in their network settings. For sites that seem to pull content from multiple domains/servers for 1 page, like the BBC or some forums that host their graphics else where, I generally see webpages built in a 3rd of the time.

The only bad news is that my ISP (Virgin Media) appear to have introduced bandwidth throttling between 16:00 and 00:00, so if I download too much, my up and download speeds get capped. This could impact the speed at which this website loads during peak demand hours, regardless of how busy the actual server is.

Well, hopefully I have cracked how to add pics and video’s to the site. You will be able to tell by clicking on the link below, so see a short clip of the girls. Other than enjoying the sunshine, I have been busy trying to install and configure a secure FTP server, but still some way to go.

Nope.. that did not work.