Tall Paul's Wiblog

On borrowing e-books

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:47:51 +0100

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):

Going Up ... and Down

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:25:18 +0100

I've been struggling for some time now with the problem of calculating ascent and descent for a walk based on a GPX track (where you've been as recorded on a GPS) or route (where you intend to go).

Rare Disease Day

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:38:14 +0000

This rare day, 29th February, is also Rare Disease Day, an international event to raise the profile of rare diseases and they've produced a rather fine video for it:

A Christmas of Films

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:01 +0000

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.

Stopping Script Kiddies

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:11:21 +0000

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". ...