At work I have to go via a SOCKS proxy to make a SSH connection to my machine at home. It’s wasn’t immediately obvious how I could do this on OS X but some googling led me to an answer that works. The trick is to take advantage of Netcat that’s already installed and can talk to the proxy for you. You need to create a file called config in your ~/.ssh directory and enter the following lines into it:
Host *
ProxyCommand nc -X SOCKS_VERSION -x SOCKS_PROXY_ADDRESS:PORT %h %p
Matt took some great photos of my stag do in Oxford. Many thanks to him for taking these. I just wish I could remember them all being taken.
Well actually he’ll be 8 months old on 3rd October but this is the latest photo we have of him. Even since this was taken he’s changed again. He’s such a happy little chappy.
Did I miss the driving lesson where they explain that lorry drivers decide where you can drive and when? Coming to a section of road at the weekend where two lanes went into one I was following the traffic signs placed there by the experts. 800m, 600m, 400m before the lanes join. I’m merrily going along the outside lane, everyone else already filtered into one lane. 400m to go and some fat slob of a lorry driver decides he is in fact the final arbiter of when I should join the other traffic and straddles two lanes probably in a similar fashion to him straddling two seats wherever he sits the fat bastard. Nipping around him to continue with the legal traffic controls I get the standard wanker signals and an ear full of abuse. Except that in the air-con’d luxury of the Beemer with the music up full I can’t hear a thing. Let’s hope the fat tosser has one fried breakfast too many and an early coronary.
We took the family to the Duke of Essex polo at the weekend. The weather was great and we made the most of it with a huge picnic. The adults went back later for the evening party. Polo party Essex style: plenty of fake tan, skimpy dresses and attitude wielding C-list slebs. Awesome fun was had people watching.
Another show and another win for Zara. So far she’s unbeaten this season. Last week on Rupert she won the first Hoys ticket of the year with a win at The Midland Counties Show in the wind and rain. Well done Zara, Rupert, Martin, John and Team Harvey.
Vic, Mole and Gemma head toward the ring for the Riding Horse class. Vic went on to win and take the Championship.
And afterwards enjoyed a few large glasses of wine in the sunshine with the girls and Henry.
The predictive skills we thought we possessed left us for this winter series competition. Morris lost a whopping 96% of his stake on the 2nd India test and Clark dropped cash with a 51% loss on the 2nd WI test. Later in the series Clark began to pull back some wins with 7% and 10% returns on the final two WI tests to take the competition. The experience (-15% Clark, -33% Morris) left us bruised but resolute, ready for the 2009 Ashes.
The health visitor last week described him as ‘thriving’. He weighed in at 15lb 8oz. In the last week he’s started giggling properly, getting him giggling is very addictive, one giggle is never enough.