“I’se always has one at eleven” goes the old Sydney pub slang . . . if I can’t shoot eleven I can always do a wee bit of (photoshopping) and send to the ‘collect eleven‘ blog site run by Trevor Allen.
Eleven wood ducks on the beach at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island Sunday, Apr 8 2012
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Just so you know . . . Monday, Jan 2 2012
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Ride’em cowboy . . . my new workbox unveiled on the first day of the new year – a grandly good omen Sunday, Jan 1 2012
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Xeon 64 bit workstation Mac Pro running OS X Lion. I managed to trade my water cooled power Mac G5 tower which has run everyday for the last 8 years without a hiccup, basically because it has run via a UPS that has saved the central processor from spikes, power outages and storm surges. It is being sold by Coremac as is and will be used as a server down the track.
Data migration and system updates have all been performed and it runs maybe 4 times faster that the old work horse, I’m chuffed!
The other surprise was a series of c.1880–1900 photographic prints of ‘fakirs’ at the QAG Thursday, Dec 29 2011
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The shots of the sadhus who spend their entire life with one or two arms held vertical are so fantastic, these limbs loose blood circulation and eventually muscle atrophy so much so that they cannot lower these limbs. As Barbara is now recovering from her recent shoulder operation, her movement stretches have now given way to strengthening exercises . . . she freaked at these images.
The studio Border Terrier, little ronE . . . is 1 today Saturday, Oct 8 2011
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Two shots sent to us by Gary Sauer-Thompson, two things dear to our hearts Saturday, Oct 1 2011
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The old Tunbridge store, Rothwell & Son, Bowerman’s Store, Hazelwood’s Shop, 51 Old Main Road or Barbara and Mal’s pet project which ever way you want to look at it . . . large image as a .pdf here.
The Blackman River taken on the western side of the Midland Highway. The larger .pdf is here.
Gary Sauer-Thompson is a blogger who works in parallel, a Doctor of Philosophy, a seriously political being, a photographer 24 hours of the day (and night) and he is Barbara’s sister’s partner. His x5 strand blog can be accessed here (Rhizomes on the left [tab] will drop you into his own photographic essays).
Another young painter worth her weight in gold (now thats really saying something), Amanda Krantz Thursday, Sep 8 2011
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Picture #5 is my pick of the new work about to go on show at Paddington’s – Percolator Gallery, September 21-25 2011. Amanda is the niece of one of my best working buddies in the agency scene in the 1980s, Valerie Staddon. We both headed departments at Schofield Sherbon Baker. Barbara and I have followed the career of Amanda and we are chuffed at her development (pity I’m not buying art anymore, but lots of folks are) . . . buying her work. Opening Friday 23rd September 6–9pm. 134 LaTrobe Terrace Paddington, Brisbane Phone 07 3368 3315. Amanda’s web is here.
Free (downloadable) tickets to the opening of the LiBrisFair in Brisbane, Friday 16th September 2011 Thursday, Sep 8 2011
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Fine, beautiful and rare books, prints, maps, photographs, manuscripts & ephemera with prices to suit all budgets. History, Literature, Art, Natural History, Sport, Military, Queensland History and the flyer says much more – the erotica will probably be under the counter. This is the first event organised by our friend, Jorn Harbeck who has pulled together 15 other antiquarian booksellers from around Australia, including “Novel Lines Bookshop” at Brisbane’s Paddington run by another client and friend – Anne Jolly. The tickets are here to download and print out, further information supplied if you email him direct <books@harbeck.com.au> The venue is at the State Library of Queensland, The Studio (Level One), Stanley Place, Brisbane.
Another pet gone on Wilston Hill Tuesday, Aug 2 2011
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Eric the cat, son of Nuri - born on Valentine's day 2008 - died last Sunday July 31 at sunset. He lived free on Wilston Hill (but not long enough),didn't see the car while playing in front of us in high spirits. Animal pal of Tara and now ronE, loved, cared for and will be missed by (at least) three families. Another heartbreak!
Early Feb 2008 and I was in the middle of throat cancer treatments. I had had my neck dissection to remove the secondary cancer, 16 teeth removed in three operations to make way for multiple sessions of radiation to blast the primary in my larynx. My diary on Tuesday 12 Feb notes radiation session 20 and that evening, while lying upstairs I heard activity in the kitchen, a thump to the floor and I just spied a brindle patterned cat slink away to the verandah. Well, as soon as I told Barb she put out milk for the cat which came back for food the following day, seemingly un-flustered by the presence of Tara, the following day she gave birth to two kittens on the kitchen floor. To Barb’s amazement she ate the first still-born kitten and Barb watched as she cleaned up the second and live little ginger bundle. We called the mother ‘Sorry’ as she was a feral cat of our Wilston Hill, it was around the time when Kevin made his sorry apology for the Nation. Those close to the unfolding story know of many more features of Eric’s life. The Christmas break that year meant that we had to leave mother and son with friends on the hill as we made our trip to Tasmania. On our return, mother was to remain in the big Georgian house on the hill, by now re-named Nuri and (little fucking) Eric was passed back to us with a kill tally sheet from his minder. Eric was a sort of positive messenger during my ordeal, he matured to become a real character known by everyone exercising on the walkway beside the studio. He stayed close by during the two subsequent trips to Tasmania and became firm friends with our neighbour next door. Liked by Vet and all our other pets, another heartbreak.
Credential Stealing Trojan Tuesday, Jul 19 2011
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The bank alerted us three weeks ago, they told us there was a breach of our password and that a payment of $3,907.39 was sent out of the country. The bank was watching the use of the rogue IP address they used to log into our account - a different one than ours. The bank suggested we had entered our details into a false bank web page, they said from their end they could see that there was a Credential Stealing Trojan at work - not Identity Theft. We were told that an outside IT person should run the latest Nortons over the system here. Steve Thomson came and installed Norton's System Works 3.0 on Barbara's machine. The newer update didn't download, the 'virus definitions' - we had to get a newer version, Norton Internet Security (for the Mac) 4.1, we ran it, took 2.7 days and - no virus detected. We have never entered passwords into a false web page. The bank opened our account again and we set newer passwords, Friday week. The following Saturday morning our account was entered on their second password attempt, (I had used numeral ones and capital I's) and they got it on the second try. So they had a key logger in our network here and we had to find it? Steve was back and installed Norton's 4.1 (a separate install for every machine), ran that over my G5 and four external mirrored drives - no virus detected. The criminals were depositing other monies into our account and used my machine's IP address to do it! Then an email from PayPal saying that my account was 'limited', so I changed my password & questions online with the laptop and rang the PayPal Sydney operator and had the 'limited' kept in place as I was suspicious about our changing details and they may be watching . . . So I arranged for Steve to come here and be on the machines while we talked to the eFraud / Westpac IT man on the phone in Sydney. The only other thing the guy could think of was that they had gained entry via our locked wireless network - the Router! So Steve came over to my machine and opened the Router log and there they were . . . he quickly did as command A - selected all the log data and pasted it into an email and sent it to the sydney IT guy. Steve then moved over to Barbara's machine and picked up the phone and opened the log across the ethernet system and the log was deleted before his very own eyes. We closed down the wireless network, unplugged the Modem for 17 hours and when it turned on it was reset to another IP address. We then reinstalled newer systems on all four machines, changed all the passwords (wireless network first) then the sharing setups. Now the only way the Router will let any one in is by the individual Mac address of the computer . . . we are specifically limited. Our email accounts were compromised and emails were read every day, our own email addresses are all the same still, now that all the server passwords have been changed so they cannot see anything now. The July bank statement will show all, the bank lady says . . . . So all of our credit cards are changed and on the way to us, the account is still 'limited', we will now use 'token's' for every payment. When Barb is back we have to recreate all bank procedures and passwords, they go and change every other password we have used at every other entity we deal with. Again for Mac users, Keychain holds every password you use and logs all the use of them, well, locked or not thats the first thing they'll do is crack that and you are laid bare. We haven't enabled it, Steve is dubious of its strength and use in the scheme of things. So they either sat outside our place and with a Mac (because the bank has that Mac computer's ID they used), managed to unlock our locked network. Gained access to Barb's machine, found the passwords secret file on her machine and stayed lurking and logging every key action. They could also have gained access via a new 'Drive-by-Reflector' that would have come from a web page and installs itself inside a Browser (but not Safari, he says) . . . we don't actually know how they gained access. Scary - hey? Hope that helps . . . passwords should be at least 12 keys long with numerals, upper and lower case, shift characters and use all different strokes - no words, no running sequence of numbers like year of birth in 4 numerals. Don't become complacent just because the Mac operating system is "suposedly written correctly", malware is all over the internet and we are all under attack!
