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Sunday I was in my garden burning some small wood. When I crouched to pick op a piece op paper and got up again, I got a pain shock in my knee and couldn't stretch it any more.

As I used to play a lot of basket and already had some issues with my knees that always disappeared in an hour or two I decided to wait it out. That didn't help, so my wife took me to the ER.

At the ER they informed me that I needed surgery but they suggested to wait until Monday to get it confirmed by the surgeon. I really liked that idea (and hoped it wouldn't come to that) so Monday morning I was at the Hospital.

I didn't like what he said though... I needed the surgery... He did give me a heads up and told me that if it was only the meniscus it wouldn't be that bad...

This did impose a possible problem. My talk @ Open Source Days in Copenhagen would be an impossible thing to do :/

This morning I had the surgery... I had a really rough time getting awake no idea why. Last time I was put under I woke up and after an hour I was ready to go home... Now it took me more than 4 hours (recovery room included) to be awake. It's almost midnight here and I never thought I would be awake like this (read can't sleep).

About the knee: Part of the meniscus was torn off and blocked the joint. But good news is that it was only a block and that there was no damage to the joint nor the ligaments. This means that by next week Thursday I should be enough recovered (especially as I can walk on the leg already).

There were a few remaining problems...

• I can't drive to Denmark (not allowed): solution --> Raf Nijskens will bring me
• Need someone to help me with the luggage etc: solution --> Raf Nijskens will help me!
• Extra hotel room and ticket to the event: solution --> OSD will take up the bill!

So as you can see Open Source Days organisation and Raf really helped me out to make sure I can still present Djagios at the event. I should mention that the company I work for Inuits sponsors the 2 days for me and Raf Nijskens, Which is a nice and cool effort!

Thanks!!!!

llap!

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A client of mine asked for a proxy and an analyser for the results. This because their site is in use 24/7 and they wanted to verify if all traffic is legal/SFW.

So we quickly decided to go for squid, I set it up against their AD so only users that are in their domain could access the web. The easy part was changing the browser settings as they can only surf through Citrix.

As analyser we tested a few that are listed on the squid website but only one passed the bar for the client. And that's Surftrackr. A Django (jeej) based analyser that is clean and easy to use. The only negative point for that tool was it's non-compliance with Django > 1. I needed to install Django-0.96. That done the tool does it's job pretty well. I'm currently contemplating whether I'm going to pursue the creator and help him convert it to the latest Django version... I probably should do it, but my time schedule is cramped already.

I did some more goodies over there but that will be part of another post :p