Net-Security.Com has a story on the History of the SNORT project. For those that do not know, SNORT is a program that listens to network traffic, and uses rules to work out what network traffic should not be there, commonly because of hackers and the like. It is called SNORT because it is a ‘Packet Sniffer’, and the word brings up images of pigs with their big noses, ferriting for food and the like. [Not that pigs can ferrit, but you get the idea]

I am going for a run in the next little while, before it gets too warm outside. I have no doubt that I will be able to at leat go as far as I did yesterday. With some luck I will be able to go a bit farther. An extra 500m would be good, but I am not sure how achievable that is. One of my friends suggests that running is a great thing to do in the morning to get the mind active. What I have found is that I tend not to need this. Might be different for other people… Your mileage might vary as they say.

A few minutes ago my computer beeped, and the sound indicated that there was something that I really should be dealing with, and I could not find any window that had a dialog. I just realised that the problem was with visualstudio, and that it had complained that my compiling had failed. OOps. I had put in a syntax error to act as a bookmark for the code I was editing, and forgot to remove it. Fixed now.