Monthly Archives: December 2013

This weeks links (2013-12-30)

Posted on December 30, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

In brief: * Happy 40th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons (2014-Jan-03) [The Guardian] * Verge@work: developing in the iOS darkroom (2013-Dec-23) [Verge@work] * The Internet Archive Console Living Room [Internet Archive] The Internet Archive Console Living Room harkens back to … Continue reading →

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The Sword and Laser – 2014 Book list (Part I)

Posted on December 28, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

The Sword and Laser (S&L) is a science fiction and fantasy-themed book club and podcast, started by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt. The main goal of the club is to build a strong online community of sci-fi / fantasy buffs, … Continue reading →

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This weeks links (2013-12-23)

Posted on December 23, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

In brief: * The 12 Days of Christmas – On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… a card game completely for free! * Best mini barebones PCs: 5 top options to buid your own media … Continue reading →

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Tales from the Trail – “… and so it begins”

Posted on December 19, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

This is a story of foolhardiness for a good cause … Darren, Chris, Frances and Gwen have formed a team , “100 Reasons – The Veterans”, to do the Oxfam Trailwalker 100 km walk starting on Friday 1st May. And, … Continue reading →

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And that was 2013 …

Posted on December 19, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

Testing the new Flickr Web Embeds (that don’t work here on WordPress because the code is an iframe or BBCode). And that was 2013 … by eltham_mob, on Flickr

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Wednesday WIN (2013-Dec-18)

Posted on December 18, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

I know it’s old, I know it’s Pfizer, but it’s still pretty good. DOCTOR WHO Christmas Special 2013 Disc No.1 of “An Evening With” is now available for your streaming pleasure on YouTube.

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This weeks links (2013-12-16)

Posted on December 16, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

In brief: * Alpine grazing. Don’t like the data? Hide it. (2013-Dec-16) [Mountain Journal] … Yet in their proposal, the government relies only on desk top data searches of federal government information. Given that the government was roundly criticised for … Continue reading →

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Cycle safely

Posted on December 12, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

Dear Motorist Exchanging places

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Adobe Patches (Dec-2013)

Posted on December 11, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

Adobe has released two patches for this month’s Patch Tuesday Bulletin Description Impact / Severity Software APSB13-28 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player Critical : Remote Code Execution Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR APSB13-29 Security update available for Shockwave … Continue reading →

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Patch Tuesday Wednesday (Dec-2013)

Posted on December 11, 2013 by visibleprocrastinations

This month Microsoft have released eleven (11) security bulletins of which five (5) have a maximum rating of Critical, and six (6) have a maximum rating of Important. This month, we have 11 security bulletins, 5 Critical and 6 Important … Continue reading →

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