Category: Paul’s Blog
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Friends of Baildon Moor site hacked
Nice friendly hackers have been at the Friends of Baildon Moor site again. The site was not working and was defaced but I found a few interesting things around. The footer PHP file had been modified with some interesting code that looked as though it was doing something with usernames and passwords and had a…
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The last ones on the Trail
All the sculptures are now on the Aire Sculpture Trail but not all painted yet. It was when I was getting the new photos of these that I saw the Long-tailed tit chicks that I have already blogged about. Cat Bath Dog Alpaca I have taken another shot of the Salt Pot Slug because my…
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More Spring cuteness
On my lunch-time walk on Wednesday I noticed what looked like a woolly scarf wrapped round a branch under a tree. I was lucky to see it and something about it made me look closer. I am pleased I did. There could be 9 Long-tailed tit chicks there. They very quickly disbursed so I waited…
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Lapwing chick and a Snipe
I think the bottom corner (top corner??) of Baildon Moor near Glovershaw is a great place to keep visiting. Meadow Pipit, Curlew, Lapwing, Skylark, Wheatear and now Snipe and Lapwing chicks.
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What price security?
Apparently there are a number of brute force attacks going on for WordPress and Joomla websites. A friend’s site had an error.php file containing 62000 lines of invalid login attempts. The 2 WordPress sites I host (this one and Friends of Baildon Moor) were hacked. I posted before about belatedly “upgrading” the passwords used on…
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Frog on a skateboard and other steely features
I have now found out what the Octopus and the Dog in a Dinghy are doing there. It is the Aire Sculpture Trail. Wycliffe School and Mick Kirkby-Geddes have created a set of 15 sculptures (+ 1 other little one?) that are to form the trail that will be officially unveiled at the end of…
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A Dog in a Dinghy!!
Having posted photos of the Octopus a couple of times I have now been past the thing on Baildon Bridge and it turns out to be a Dog in a Dinghy.
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The Octopus and the Iron
You might have already seen my posting about the Octopus at Saltaire here. It is strange enough to see a green octopus on the bridge but why would a steam iron turn up?