Coquette
Posted at 22:14:54 on Fri, May 16th 2008 by graham
Graham Binns posted a photo:
Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 136
A female mallard who wouldn't leave us alone as we tried doing some wildlife photography at Leighton Moss.
Posted at 22:14:54 on Fri, May 16th 2008 by graham
Graham Binns posted a photo:
Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 136
A female mallard who wouldn't leave us alone as we tried doing some wildlife photography at Leighton Moss.
Posted at 21:57:21 on Thu, May 15th 2008 by graham
Graham Binns posted a photo:
Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 135
Taken at Glasson Dock, at the mouth of the Lune estuary (the opposite bank from Sunderland Point.
These cranes just happened to be between me and the sun. I love the combination of the light, the sky, the silhouettes and the reflections on the water.
Posted at 22:52:05 on Wed, May 14th 2008 by graham
Graham Binns posted a photo:
Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 134
I have no idea who Jenny Brown was or why she has a point named after her. Mostly I just liked the light.
Oh, and on an unrelated note, I'm finally up-to-date with these posts! Let joy be unconfined.
Posted at 22:51:46 on Tue, May 13th 2008 by graham
Graham Binns posted a photo:
Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 133
There's not enough words to describe how beautiful I find the Yorkshire Dales (okay, I'm a Lancashire man, so that's almost treason, but we'll gloss over that).
They're so desolate and yet full of life, scruffy and yet elegant. Just when you think there's nothing bug scrubby long grass and mossy hillocks all around you you find something like this, which is about as close to idyllic as you can get.
Posted at 15:45:10 on Tue, May 13th 2008 by graham
This will only apply to Ubuntu users (server or desktop). Anyone who's not one can probably look away now.
An urgent Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-612-1, has just been put out. The full notice is here.
An extract of the salient details:
A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in OpenSSH, OpenVPN and SSL certificates.
So, update and upgrade your systems now and regenerate your key pairs.
Graham Binns is a writer and software developer from
Lancaster, England, with rather too much hair. He has been
making things up for as long as he can remember and has
been making code work for long enough to make a living from
it.
He has written one novel, which is in the process of
composting, and is working on a second.
codedragon: Time for bed. Tomorrow, packing for Prague.



