The summer of our dis-content?
Is this a bug, or a marketing cliff-hanger from Apple, do you think?
Shut it
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Decline and Fall
We visited the Roman fort at Hardknott Pass yesterday: a favourite spot of mine.
However, this chap looked at me as if to say, “Romans? Ha! They came and went, but the sheep live on!”
Sign of the times
A warning on a steep and narrow road heading out of Grasmere.
Feeling blue?
You need some of these bluebells, above Aysgarth Falls
Where the roads aren't made for cars
In the countryside around Newsells Park Stud, everything is tailored to equine comfort and happiness.
How heartbleed works
Everybody has probably now heard of the heartbleed bug which affects hundreds of thousands of computers across the net. There are some lists out there of the popular services which are affected - see this page, for example - and it's worth noting that you should change any passwords on Facebook, Google, IFTTT, Tumblr and Yahoo at the very least.
But have you wondered how it works? What does a 'memory-leak vulnerability' actually mean? Well, of course, nobody explains it better and more briefly than XKCD:
Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside
We visited Southwold for the first time today. A lovely spot.
It's particularly good when the weather is fine before the high season begins because (a) it's not too crowded and (b) dogs are allowed on the beach!
