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I now have three appointments at the cardiology clinic.<\/p>\n
They add up to two consecutive afternoons of back-to-back appointment fun.<\/p>\n
I’m reading up on all my best jokes to keep the nurses entertained.<\/p>\n
They love that.<\/p>\n
Erm.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, in the company of a work colleague, his partner and her 7yo son (and their mentile as anything dog), I walked five miles along the bank of the River Trent.<\/p>\n
We walked around the National Watersports (no, not that kind) Centre for a bit, and then headed along the Trent in towards the Lady Bay\u00a0Bridge.<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed the walk, but we covered the ground much slower than if I’d been flying solo.<\/p>\n
I might have a proper crack at that walk tomorrow.<\/p>\n
My colleague had (probably) been briefed not to talk about work, so we didn’t. At least we didn’t in any great detail, just one or two generalities.<\/p>\n
But we had a little tech chat or two (about non-work things), which was nice.<\/p>\n
I have spent some time, over the last week, debugging a hacked website.<\/p>\n
Mostly that involved just reading code, and googling some pretty esoteric .php and SQL.<\/p>\n
The hacked website (one of mine that I left languishing for the last two years on a shared-by-many GoDaddy server) is now back online.<\/p>\n
It’s not only been debugged, but I’ve gone to great pains to harden the security: validate all file permissions, remove the legacy users, put a new user in place with upgraded access requirements, delete the FTP user, migrate the MySQL database to a new MySQL database with a new root user and updated root access.<\/p>\n
Then I updated the design, and modernised some of the functionality.<\/p>\n
So it might be that the podcast could\u00a0be making a return appearance.<\/p>\n
There are some logistical problems that need to be solved, in order to make a return truly viable, but these are being worked on.<\/p>\n
There are a couple of very good security plugins for WordPress now.<\/p>\n
I’ve tried the iSecurity plugin, which is quite good, but Wordfence is very much my favourite.<\/p>\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n
Today I didn’t undertake any significant walking.<\/p>\n
But I did take the ZX10R out for the first time since the ‘event’.<\/p>\n
I was not reckless.<\/p>\n
And was very careful.<\/p>\n
My pulse may have quickened slightly when the garage door rolled up and I saw the pristine ZX10 waiting for me in all her Ninja blackness.<\/p>\n
And my pulse may have continued to beat\u00a0slightly quicker as I wheeled the ZX10R\u00a0out and started her up.<\/p>\n
But actually I felt fine.<\/p>\n
And I took my pulse rate, just to be sure.<\/p>\n
The good news is I haven’t forgotten how to ride a 1,000cc Super Sports Bike.<\/p>\n
There is no bad news \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
I grinned the whole time I was out, though I was only in the saddle for 90 minutes in total (two stops en-route).<\/p>\n
And when I came back my pulse rate was unsurprisingly in the 72-74\/BPM range, which is my ‘normal’.<\/p>\n
So that’s alright then.<\/p>\n
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