Monthly Archives: June 2013

Naruto vs Nine Tails

Whilst I’ve only watched the odd few Naruto episodes, I do have to concede that there are some really nice fight scenes. This being one of them:

Three

Strange…. my connection to the Internet on my Three UK device seems to have gone. I thought maybe I hadn’t paid my bills, but then again, they’re on Direct Debit, so that shouldn’t happen. Plus, one of my colleagues at work is also on Three (a different plan, but the same network) and his connection is also down. Looks like Three are either doing something but not telling us, or someone’s pulled the plug somewhere…. Or maybe possibly both.

EDIT: 8:30am — Message on the Customer Services line indicates that they are aware of the issue and are working on it. But still no connection.

EDIT: 11am — network back up

Half Marathon Training – Day 61

ZR Track

A different 5K route today, and it’s slightly longer than 5K, but more flat, so I was able to hit a faster-than-normal pace, and keep it going for a while. So well, in fact, that I touched the top of Green during the run, on more than one occasion. And, I’ve shaved off 90 seconds off my last run’s pace (~8min/km), and around 30 seconds off my average (~7min/km).

According to Endomondo, my current bests are:

Cooper (12 min): 2.46 km
One hour: 9.6 km
1 km: 4m:44s
1 mile: 7m:42s
3 miles: 25m:38s
5 km: 26m:33s
10 km: 1h:02m:40s

Playing with Tor

I’ve been using Tor for a while now, and have been tinkering with settings to try to get it work right. One of the many frustrating things is DNS leaking whereby an application resolves DNS using the host DNS and not via Tor. Consequently, since the DNS server of your PoP (Point of Presence) is usually your ISP’s DNS server, or a DNS server maintained by your ISP, they can easily eavesdrop on your surfing behaviour, by simply connecting a DNS query with a traffic stream to that same IP soon afterwards.

Using DNS via Tor is a bit of a pain, but there are various ways I’ve found that seem to work. Some better than others.

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Dr Who Matt Smith Steps Down As Time Lord

Just found out about this. Semi-disappointed that Matt is leaving so soon but this will give me another reason to watch the 50th Anniversary episode. If only to see David TEN-nant again. :P

Dr Who Matt Smith Steps Down As Time Lord.