So 24

Remember I said about not being able to access certain harmless, and even educational, websites because of an over-zealous firewall here at my placement? Well, thanks to this article and a bit of fiddling, I've managed to create an SSH tunnel from my placement PC to my home PC, so that now I can (at my discretion) use my own (home) PC to access the internet via this link as if I was sitting in front of it instead of about 13 miles behind it - and it's as easy as changing a browser proxy setting now all the correct programs are installed and configured on both machines: voila, no more nasty messages from John Dobson!

In reality, there aren't many sites I need that are blocked, and the browsing is a lot slower (limited to my upload speed of about 20kbps) when I use my home connection, but it's nice to have the option (and the firefox switchproxy plugin makes it so easy) to make that nasty message disappear. So now I can do all those things I've wanted to do from my works PC: read my gmail, write this blog, and learn how to make bombs out of stuff you find lying around in a hospital ;-)

UPDATE: Wow, now I'm remotely controllling the home PC too! Using ultraVNC, I can now sit at work and take control of the PC at home. Good for downloading stuff I find at work, and for keeping watch on Becky's Ebay habits ;-)