This looks very promising:
http://benoit.locher.club.fr/k8housealarm/

This is a picture of Sandy's leg where he had a Haematoma removed.

After tripping in his flat he woke up in the middle of the night in agony and unable to move it. There was a lump sticking out of his leg about 10cm from the point where he knocked it.

I like this comedy comment I found on a rather obscure website http://humorix.org/articles/2003/02/kernel/:

"If you really want to toggle Internet Explorer into secure mode you just need to click the little "X" in the top right corner of the window."
--from a Slashdot post.

I just happened to sit down at my server and do tail -f /var/log/secure to see someone trying to hack into the machine via ssh. See log below. They had a script which was going through a list of first names attempting to gain access.

All of this information was part of my daily email.

After reading man sshd_config I change these settings:
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitRootLogin no
MaxStartups 10:30:60

Which will hopefully limit any effort in the future. When I get time, I'll look into key based authentication.

Jul 24 19:25:42 bart sshd[16083]: Illegal user kelley from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:25:44 bart sshd[16083]: Failed password for illegal user kelley from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 33502 ssh2
Jul 24 19:25:46 bart sshd[16085]: Illegal user marie from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:25:48 bart sshd[16085]: Failed password for illegal user marie from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 34539 ssh2
Jul 24 19:25:50 bart sshd[16087]: Illegal user cassandra from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:25:52 bart sshd[16087]: Failed password for illegal user cassandra from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 35616 ssh2
Jul 24 19:25:53 bart sshd[16089]: Illegal user kassandra from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:25:56 bart sshd[16089]: Failed password for illegal user kassandra from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 36660 ssh2
Jul 24 19:25:57 bart sshd[16091]: Illegal user danielle from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:25:59 bart sshd[16091]: Failed password for illegal user danielle from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 37686 ssh2
Jul 24 19:26:01 bart sshd[16093]: Illegal user keyla from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:26:03 bart sshd[16093]: Failed password for illegal user keyla from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 38741 ssh2
Jul 24 19:26:05 bart sshd[16095]: Illegal user victoria from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:26:07 bart sshd[16095]: Failed password for illegal user victoria from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 39796 ssh2
Jul 24 19:26:08 bart sshd[16097]: Illegal user jamie from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:26:11 bart sshd[16097]: Failed password for illegal user jamie from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 40846 ssh2
Jul 24 19:26:12 bart sshd[16099]: Illegal user arica from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:26:15 bart sshd[16099]: Failed password for illegal user arica from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 41918 ssh2
Jul 24 19:26:16 bart sshd[16101]: Illegal user lindsey from ::ffff:69.93.134.212
Jul 24 19:26:18 bart sshd[16101]: Failed password for illegal user lindsey from ::ffff:69.93.134.212 port 42947 ssh2
Jul 24 19:26:20 bart sshd[16103]: Illegal user chelsea from ::ffff:69.93.134.212

I've been thinking for a while about removing the pile of kit from under my TV, now I've got cable TV, from the floor to the bottom of my TV I don't have enough room for video, dvd, surround sound, digital and cable boxes.

About 5m away from the TV I have a large cupboard in the hall. I'm going to build a shelving system and put everything in there. But what to do about the remote controls? They don't go through walls.

I found this site: www.mitedu.freeserve.co.uk/Circuits/Interface/irext5.htm

Circuit Diagram:


Which (from maplin) will cost just over £13 to build, but the advantage here is that there's no sender box - all I need is a 3mm hole drilled in the skirting board somewhere near the TV. A hidden wire takes the signal to an IR transmitter in the cupboard. Neat!

Here's my shopping list for
Maplin:
Product Code Stock Qty Price(inc. VAT) Clear

5mm Red LED 5mm Red LED N22BY 2575 £1.41
Min Res 5M6 Min Res 5M6 M5M6 1586 £0.12
Min Res 120R Min Res 120R M120R 17595 £0.14
Min Res 3k3 Min Res 3k3 M3K3 3231 £0.14
Min Res 220R Min Res 220R M220R 5510 £0.14
Min Res 10k Min Res 10k M10K 7272 £0.14
Min Res 100R Min Res 100R M100R 9171 £0.14
Min Res 120k Min Res 120k M120K 4766 £0.14
Min Res 47k Min Res 47k M47K 13685 £0.14
Stripboard Stripboard FL17T 591 £4.99
SFH2030 Silicon Photodiode SFH2030F CY91Y 408 £0.79
High Power Infrared Emitting Diode YH70M 3038 £0.49
CA3140E & CA3240E CA3140E QH29G 681 £1.18
SE Series Low Profile Radial Electrolytic
Capacitors GenElect 100uF 25V KQ70M 698 £0.18
Multilayer Metallised Polyester Film
Capacitors 22n Poly Film DT96E 1453 £0.14
Signal Diodes 1N4148 QL80B 14125 £0.16
Low Power LF NPN Transistors TO18 Case
2N2222A UH54J 641 £1.18

Total: £13.21

Missing one item which I couldn't find on their website.