Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

Today I came across some of the photos I took during the campaign to Save Milton Country Park. I'd not looked at them since 2007 and that led me to stop what I was doing and re-read the blog we wrote as the campaign progressed. Start here. Here's a photo I liked:  read more ...

Periodically, at times of frustration, I post this Chuck & Beans cartoon as a status update on Facebook but people still don't get the message so I have to post it again.  read more ...

Today's annoying news, courtesy of a retweet by @robhague is that the Posterous Spaces blogging service is being shut down on 30th April and unfortunately tallpaul.org is currently a Posterous account.  read more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...