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Looks like there’s a new spam bot out there – not sure if its script kiddies…

Looks like there's a new spam bot out there – not sure if its script kiddies running it or a bot net but what ever it is is its really crap.

So far Fail2ban has blocked about 40 IP addresses and they're all doing exactly the same thing – any even vaguely configured email server should be rejecting the messages … .here's the reject my server sent to mail.blackriverhealthcare.org which tried to use my server to spend spam :

Relay access denied; from=<test@live.com> to=<therichsheickc@yahoo.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.2.33]>

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Just listened to “The 2nd Law” which is the new album by Muse. 

Not sure what to make of it on a first listen, it seemed slightly disjointed but some of that might have been down to me listening to part of it in the car and then finishing it off at lunchtime on my headphones. One thing is very obvious – its Muse.. no mistaking that at all. Listening to one track I thought I might be listening to a Bond theme tune and it seems that others have made the same comment, and apparently even the band would like it to be too, and when I was listening to another I was reminded of Queen from the "The Game" / "Hot Space" era.

In many ways the album is "classic" Muse but in other ways its very different from their previous albums which is no bad thing really – bands develop and evolve and their sound has to change.

I think I need to listen to it again….

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Thanksgiving Plans

Well the leave is booked at work, and the plane tickets have just been bought – the tickets themselves are cheap, its all the taxes that makes them obscenely expensive. So all that remains is to book the hotel and the parking at Heathrow and get the tickets for the Concord Trailways bus at the other end.

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