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Recently I was asked to explore means to monitor/audit network traffic of a virtual host (i.e. all traffic on the Dom0 and DomUs) without the monitoring software running inside the privileged domain (Dom0). If you are ok with running the monitoring software inside the privileged domain then you need not read the rest of this blog.

I've been in a Muppet mood recently, as such I've found myself playing along with soundtracks. I was quite unsatisfied with the chords I found for Gonzo's lament from The Muppet Movie so here is my transcription, the end of the bridge may not be 100% but it doesn't sound terrible

Not long ago I wrote an imap polling script for work that used Python's imaplib. Shortly after that HoopyCat wrote an excellent imap backup script that also used imaplib. We exchanged some stories and opined on wanting a simpler mechanism to get imaplib to return an email.Message object (a feature that should be available from the core).

For far too long now, you have been limited by those 140 characters of microblogging sites like twitter. I present you with twuuenc, take your tweet that is longer than 140 characters and stuff it into fewer unicode characters.

Now for the Act III tension builder where our favorite villain (anti-hero?) gets caught monologuing, these are the tabs for "Slipping"