http://the-hug.org/paul/wibblings.html The Wibblings of "Tall" Paul Oldham en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:24:13 +0000 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:24:13 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Opus Release 2.29 paul@the-hug.org (Paul Oldham) paul@the-hug.org (Paul Oldham) Copyright 2012 Paul Oldham http://www.the-hug.org/php/web/rsslogo.jpg 88 76 http://the-hug.org/paul/ http://www.the-hug.org/opus2005.html http://www.the-hug.org/opus2005.html <p>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. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.the-hug.org/opus1995.html http://www.the-hug.org/opus1995.html <p>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 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net">phpMyAdmin</a> and they use a script - hence the name "script kiddies". ... Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:11:21 +0000 http://www.the-hug.org/opus1992.html http://www.the-hug.org/opus1992.html <p>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 <i>Bonita</i>. The other, sadly, resulted in the loss of crew of both the Penlee lifeboat and the <i>Union Star</i>, the ship it had set out to help. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:00:01 +0000 http://www.the-hug.org/opus1991.html http://www.the-hug.org/opus1991.html <p>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). Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:38:16 +0000 http://www.the-hug.org/opus1986.html http://www.the-hug.org/opus1986.html <p>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. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:01 +0000