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Monday, May 21 2018
This morning while the dogs were in the forest with Gretchen, I drove to the Uptown Herzog's just to get some cable, long turnbuckle, and related equipment so I could apply another angle of orthogonalizing force on the east pillars of the new screened-in porch. On the way back home from that errand, I managed to wrestle a large chunk of white ash into the back of the Subaru from a pile of such pieces along the road in the lowland forest west of Dug Hill Road before it starts climbing the escarpment to our house. The piece was 18 inches in diameter and 43 inches long, meaning it represented 25.3 cubic feet of wood. This means that if it was green (which it wasn't quite), it would've been 1214.4 pounds. If dry, it still would've been 1037 pounds. Somehow I was able to tilt it end over and then lift the back end up and wriggle it into the car without injuring myself.

At some point today, I decided the pillars weren't quite plumb enough in the north-south dimension. So I undid the angle braces and used the new cable and turnbuckle to force it further northward. Then I reinstalled the angle braces, drilled new holes in them, and bolted it back together again. By the end of the day, both pillars were nearly perfectly plumb in all compass directions.

In the remote workplace, there was yet another hacker crisis, with renewed assaults against out web server (many of which had happened this weekend and gone undetected). The most obvious evidence was a fake Charles Schwab login page designed to skim credentials. In the process of getting rid of that, I perfected a few helpful anti-hacking techniques, particularly the use of the

find /path/to/root/* -type f \( -name "filename1.ext" -or -name "filename2.ext"" \) -delete

Linux command, which, when run without the -delete, can be used as a dry run to see what all will be deleted. Since many of the inserted pages were identical across many directories, this made it easy to quickly get rid of them all. I also systematically checked directories with recently modified dates (using ls -lrt), uncovering several bad files, some from other hackers who had come in on the coattails of the first one (who had bragged about his exploits on a hackers' forum). One of the files did nothing but perform a PHP eval() on a $_POST variable, which would allow a hacker to do anything that PHP can do (which is a lot). By the end of the day, I was feeling pretty good about the state of the web server.

Meanwhile, Allison and Nicole have been losing their minds about the new European privacy rules (GDPR) and all the things they have to do before the May 25th deadline.


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