The spirit sustains the stone  

Seeing as I never seem to find the time to write decent blog posts at the moment anyone who’s interested can follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/paddy_keane

I’ve just got back from a wonderful trip to Hawaii where I attended http://www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com/home.html (I’d recommend it to anyone for next year) to find my blog had been hacked with loads of malicious code ;( I’m not sure if this is because it was a old version of wordpress or the ‘blix’ theme I used http://www.utheguru.com/download-blix-krieg-231-major-release or something completely different? Anyhow I’ve had to delete the whole thing and strip my database (which has also been corrupted hence some of the posts have doggy characters). After investigating this issue it seems if you are vulnerable to this attack you have loads of porn and phishing sites installed in your ‘tinymce’ directory (javascript text editor). I’d advise people to hunt through this dir. My database contained 100’s of sites that have been attacked. It’s depressing to see a charity for fostering children has been attacked ;( I wouldn’t click on any of the doggy links under the main site urls as they could contain Trojans.

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On Sunday April 1st I’m going on a little stroll along the Thames from Hampton Court to Putney and in the process try to raise some cash for a small charity. The charity is called ‘Children of Latin America’ (Reg No:1111335) and every 3 months or so it raised about £2,000 for a designated Latin American charity.
It then identifies a kids charity in the country to which it gives the money for kids programmes. My goal is to raise a staggering £100. If anyone feels the urge to part with a few pounds to help out please do, pennys will do too ;) Also if anyone whats to join us on the walk feel free! Thanks for your time paddy ;)

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