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27/04/12
Our county council has recently started offering a fairly limited range of e-books for loan. Their web site has an extensive FAQ which explains how it works. It has three curious features (in what follows I'm going to assume you understand about DRM, if you don't then start by reading the FAQ): read more ...
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16/12/11
One on the things we get a lot on our web servers is people trying to get into our web sites. They do this by trying lots of known vulnerabilities in existing software like phpMyAdmin and they use a script - hence the name "script kiddies". ... read more ...
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06/06/11
Long time readers of this blog will remember that back in July last year I got my mapping software working with Ordnance Survey's OpenSpace server and so our mapping site map.the-hug.net now uses OpenSpace. read more ...
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01/02/11
I've been seeing mutterings around the Net for a while now about the perils of putting your content on other people's servers. Of course user generated content was one of the core concepts of the whole Web 2.0 thaang. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. read more ...
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20/01/11
You'll have to excuse me if this is quick but I'm tired and it's going to be a long day tomorrow but here's yet another
blog posting about Facebook which I think is rather well argued. His opening proposition is that: read more ...
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11/01/11
11:15pm and I've still not wibbled today. It's been one of those days. So here's a quick note about something I've done today: I've switched on the new Milton Photographic Club web site. read more ...
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04/12/10
I'm busy reading several years' back issues of Practical Boat Owner at the moment (thanks Hugo) and was thinking I should take out a subscription. As well as offering it in dead tree format it's available digitally for you to download. Wow, I thought, that would be cool. Except it's not. read more ...
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06/11/10
I made a discovery today which gave me pause for thought and should do the same for you. When you sign up on a web site like Amazon or Photobox your username is typically your email address. People sometimes forget their passwords so if that happens you can usually give the site your email address and they then mail you your password. read more ...
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03/10/10
I have talked here before about my struggle with my Samsung i8910 phone and how I really wasn't getting on with it, especially doing data entry via the touch screen. As a result I has concluded that I probably needed a phone with a physical keyboard. Well things have moved on. read more ...
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03/03/10
Sarah just re-tweeted this rather excellent story in The Onion about Google which I think deserves wider circulation. And while I'm at it here's two other items courtesy of Kirk. read more ...
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