You need some of these bluebells, above Aysgarth Falls
Feeling blue?
May 17th, 2014
Beware of chemicals
May 4th, 2014
Where the roads aren’t made for cars
April 20th, 2014
In the countryside around Newsells Park Stud, everything is tailored to equine comfort and happiness.
How heartbleed works
April 11th, 2014
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
April 5th, 2014
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!
Mac projector hint of the day
April 2nd, 2014
Something I’ve just discovered…
If you plug a MacBook Pro running Mavericks into an external display, it will try to select a screen resolution, or offer you a list based on what the display says it can manage.
But, particularly if you’re connected by VGA or through some kind of extender, the resolutions offered may be very limited. This is what I got from a reasonably modern TV connected by VGA to my Thunderbolt-to-VGA adapter in a university meeting room:
Even when the resolution is high enough, these are all 4:3 aspect ratios and don’t make good use of anything wide-screen.
However, if you hold down option/alt and click on the ‘Scaled’ button (even if it’s already selected), you get a whole lot more options:
There’s no guarantee that the screen/projector will be able to cope with any particular resolution selected here, but there’s a pretty good chance, for example, that a modern TV will at least do 1280×768, and that certainly worked for me.
Hope it’s useful!
Morning
March 31st, 2014
Beechwoods nature reserve on Saturday morning.
The floods are over
March 30th, 2014
That’s the only reason I can think of for somebody to have abandoned a nice pair of platform shoes in the middle of a field.
Tilly and I continued our walk, pondering what their story might be, until they vanished in the mist behind us.
Venn I come back to bed…
March 29th, 2014
My nephew James came up with this; I think it’s great:
Here’s my attempt to follow his lead, less successfully, I think!
Make your corporate video stand out!
March 29th, 2014
It could be something awesome like this:
Thanks to Mark Littlewood for the link
Objects in the viewfinder may be closer than they appear
March 27th, 2014
Is that the 18-55 f/2.8 you’re using? Looks tasty…
Practise good wiki hygiene
March 26th, 2014
Katie Cunningham has written a great article entitled ‘Your wiki is a dump‘, outlining what goes wrong with wikis, and how to fix them.
I have seen this over and over again. Wikis need work, and they need someone with the guts (and/or the authority) to take a set of shears to them on a regular basis. If you have that, you can have a great resource. If not, you can have a nightmare.
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