Maungatua
December 30 2016 · landscape-photography dunedin
A day walk up Maungatua from the Taieri Plains.
Over the Taieri
The walk up the ridge
Lake Marian
October 30 2016 · landscape-photography southland
An enjoyable 2 hour walk up to Lake Marian.
Lake Marian
Sun
Mavora
I spent a couple of days around the Mavora lakes. When I first got there it was cloudy and very still - bloody magical. I walked up and around the eastern side of the north lake. This was the location in the Lord of the Rings films after the death of Boromir when Frodo and Sam depart in the boat.
Northern Lake
Testing the Status of a SOCKS5 Proxy in Python
I’ve been working on a proxy testing application in Clojure and have been thinking about porting it to Python. There are a couple of Python libraries that I could use to test the status of a SOCKS proxy. PyCurl is a Python wrapper of the C library curl, this makes it easy to do HTTP requests by using a SOCKS proxy. Another option is socksipy which essentially provides a wrapper around an instance of the socket module. Both of these establish a full connection with the proxy.
Looking at the …