Duncan’s nursery phoned on Monday morning to say that he was running a temperature. I agreed that they could give him Calpol and phoned again later, by which time his temperature had subsided, he’d slept, and had eaten his lunch. The next call I had was from Christine who had gone to pick up Duncan at the end of the day and discovered an ambulance car parked outside. Duncan had experienced a short seizure (1-2 minutes) and they we’re going to transfer him (along with Christine and Emma) by ambulance to Winchester Hospital. I pedalled over to the nursery, picked up the car and followed them in. They had given him more Calpol and followed this up with Ibuprofen in A&E which brough his temperature back down again from 39 degrees. After several hours of the usual NHS procrastination he was finally transferred to the children’s ward where Christine spent the night with him. Emma and I returned the following morning to bring them home (after a good play with the toys on the ward). The verdict? A febrile seizure. As the NHS site states “frightening but harmless”. He may be susceptible and we need to watch his temperature more closely in future but, either way, he will grow out of it by five. What surprised me most is that, although between three and five percent of children suffer one of these seizures, this was a first for the nusery. In many ways though, we’re glad it happened there rather than at home as they undoubtedly dealt with the situation much more calmly than we would have done.
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Febrile seizure
Thursday, March 10th, 2011Server hacked
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011When attempting to post the image for my last blog entry, it failed to be resized. When I logged in to the server to see what was up with ImageMagick, I didn’t appear to have permission to execute ls. Or ps. Or netstat… A quick Google suggested that these were the hallmarks of a rootkit attack. Unfortunately the files had been modified prior to the oldest Slicehost backup that I had. At this point I realised the server was still running Intrepid, limiting my chances of picking up packages to detect and remove rootkits. After a reboot of the server I discovered that I had lost all connectivity. Booting up a Slicehost rescue image I was able to retrieve all of the data I needed. Now to get things up and running again. Earlier in the year I had been playing around with a free micro-instance on EC2 and this seemed like the ideal opportunity to switch across. The instance is running Apache rather than nginx as on my Slicehost image. This needed a bit of tuning down to prevent segmentation faults. Everything seems to be running smoothly now. I just need to switch the DNS records away from Slicehost and then I’m done.
London sightseeing
Saturday, March 5th, 2011Emma was keen to see the dinosaurs after a previous encounter at the Pitt Rivers in Oxford. We then went on to look at the mammals (including the life size blue whale) and the creepy crawlies. Duncan also seemed to love the museum although that may just have been the chance to run freely from one brightly lit case to the next. There was bright sunshine when we emerged but we dived down in to the underground (all part of the experience) back to Westminster and then walked back to Waterloo, just about beating the commuter rush back home.
There are a few photos on Flickr. I would have taken more but the auto-focus on my kit lens seems to have packed in. Thankfully it’s still under warranty.
Longleat Tiger
Friday, January 28th, 2011Going strapless
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011This week’s Tuesday night entertainment was the undulating run. Stewart looked to be making a bid to step in to Neil’s shoes, showing us a clean pair of heels as we crossed over the common but it later transpired that he needed to get back for an appointment. Makes me wonder how fast he would go if he was trying! And ‘going strapless’? My Garmin watch strap broke just as we set off. I’m still trying to decide whether to replace it like-for-like, go for the velcro option, or perhaps go for the wrist/bike mount…
Failed Safari
Sunday, January 16th, 2011It was the CompassSport Cup first round at Longleat today. We were expecting minor chaos as a result of the change in parking but in reality, dropping Christine and the children off at assembly and then getting the minibus back from the house worked very smoothly. Christine was running first and I took the children round the Dr Who themed string course. I have to wonder how many of the participants actually know who Dr Who is but at least Emma was able to understand the world’s worst knock-knock joke afterwards! It also has to be said that they did have a very impressive Tardis stationed at the start.
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Farewell run
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011It was Neil’s last Tuesday night run before departing back to the southern hemisphere and consequently he got to choose tonight’s route. It was therefore fairly predictable that it would be the wettest and muddiest of those available: Lordsdale Greenway. The temperature must have nearly been a balmy 10 degrees but for some reason I felt cold for much of the time we were out. Suspiciously, the turnout at the pub afterwards seemed to be much larger than that on the run.
Farewell Neil – Tuesday nights just won’t be as much fun without you!
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Blue Skies at Lucas Castle
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
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