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04/01/12
If anything has marked out this Christmas as something out of the ordinary it's been the quality and variety of the films I've seen. As usual much respect to the great Dr Kermode for pointing me in the right direction for some of the less obvious choices. Some of these are DVDs Santa Beth gave me, the others are movies I caught on iPlayer. 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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09/12/11
It's thirty years ago next week since two memorable rescues in hurricane conditions by RNLI crews. One, by the St Peter Port lifeboat, resulted in 29 people being rescued from the cargo vessel Bonita. The other, sadly, resulted in the loss of crew of both the Penlee lifeboat and the Union Star, the ship it had set out to help. read more ...
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01/12/11
I'm typing this on my Android tablet ... well, typing is too generous a word: it implies I'm making rapid progress for a start, which I'm not. And that's down to my difficulty in finding a plausible touch screen keyboard. With Android you can replace what keyboard software the manufacturer has installed with your own (unlike iOS I gather). read more ...
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14/11/11
I remember the day I saw an iPad for the first time. It was on Waterbeach station and I was setting out on one of my "50 at 50" trips. Two young nerds were getting very excited over something and when I asked they showed me. And it was very cute: they had a "Winnie the Pooh" e-book open with full colour illustrations and they were scrolling through it. Touch screen, crisp graphics, page turn animations. Lovely. read more ...
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09/10/11
I spotted these on the road from Bridge of Avon to Drumin past the Tomintoul distillery. They were across the other side of the glen. It was a dreich day although it turned to proper rain at times.
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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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29/05/11
For a while now I've been drifting towards the conclusion that it's time to dump my LinkedIn account: I've never really seen any benefit from it, increasingly the people who want to connect with me are people I only know peripherally and wouldn't recommend or introduce to someone else, which I thought was at least partially the point of LinkedIn. read more ...
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23/05/11
The madness of the last month and a half have left me with little time or energy to sit back and wibble on here as I normally like to do but I've got a little more time now and I've been very taken with a new toy I bought a couple of months ago now just before this all began. read more ...
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17/05/11
I caught sight of this chap wriggling under a silver Honda as I came out of Milton Country Park yesterday. Good size for a grass snake too, probably the biggest I've ever seen. He did pop his head out (which is when I got this photo) but then went back under.
Then, unfortunately, he decided the smart thing to do was climb inside the car and the last time I saw him he was peering out of the radiator grill at me. So I left a note under the windscreen wiper to tell the owner that they'd picked up a passenger.
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