Grandad's photos

We headed into town yesterday to see what we could see of the visiting Queen Mary cruise ship. We could only see the rear-end from Devonport. We drove through the traffic jam on Quay St up Gladstone Rd, and all we could see were containers stacked 6 high. The ship was too big to dock at the passenger terminal at Princes Wharf. The best view was from the Devonport ferry that we didn't go on....




Anyway, for a completely different story, related to the current fuss over legislation to force an ISP to bump people off their Internet account, we were visited by someone who stole nearly all of our monthly data allowance, as you can see. They either cracked our wireless modem, with WEP 64-bit encrypted password (I don't think so) or some b****** at World Exchange (who can read our password) passed on the login and password to one of their hairy mates who uploaded and downloaded stuff during the night hours on 13 and 14 February. They uploaded 1.5G and downloaded 2.5G and we are now on restricted download of 64K because we have exceeeded our monthly data cap. World Exchange said it's not possible for the broadband to be logged into by two people at the same time. I think facts show otherwise.

I received two emails about data useage, one at 02:08 am on 14 Feb that 75% of the data had been used, the next at 04:12 am on 14 Feb that 92% had been used.

With the proposed new legislation about illegal filesharing, World Exchange could cancel our account and our phone line. Currently the new legislation has been put on hold.