A brief bit of excitement this afternoon when it turned out one of our cgi scripts used for sending out "email a friend" links was hijacked and used to send quite a bit of spam out. We quickly shut down everything involved while keeping everything else running, purged mail queues and asked for forgiveness from our upstream mail people. Given it wasn't my group's fault and not 100% the web team's fault that seems to have been pretty easy to get. Suffice it to say we won't be allowing other scripts of that nature in the future without someone taking a look at it to check for those kinds of holes.

I went to see Terminator: Salvation last night on the spur of the moment (and also because I know Kris wouldn't have wanted to see it). It was... entertaining. Not really that impressive story-wise but certainly a fun way to spend the evening. As we saw it so early (pretty much straight from work) I was able to go home and do an initial clean up of the house and Kris' room for plaster dust and general muck. Next up is vacuuming before I put things like curtains back up and reassemble her room again.

Even though today was burrito day I'd intended to run at lunch time as I'd forgotten that. Still, as I'd also forgotten my trainers I wasn't able to actually run anyway. I'm going to go to the gym after work instead before doing some more housework. There's supposed to be something happening in town this evening with friends but I really don't have the energy to do two things and I really do feel like a gym session today.

Finally today I've been setting up a dual-homed machine to act as a Wake On LAN server for the Windows team. Of course it's a linux box but at least I get to control it and keep it up to date. Having a machine which bridges two VLANs is never great, but at least it's not Windows.