Book reviews for December 2016
Night School (Jack Reacher, #21) by Lee Child
4/5
I much prefer flashback Reacher to modern day midwest town trauma Reacher. This is one of the best.
A few months ago I wrote about my cunning plan to stop Internet of Things botnets: stop them at the router.
It's just possible that these were in the works before that post but Symantec, BitDefender and Intel unveiled router level IoT security at CES this year. Not as hard core as my plan, but looks like a useful start.
(Image from Norton Core website).
(Published to the Fediverse as: Routers to defend against rogue IoT devices #etc #iot #symantec Will Norton follow my plan to prevent IOT botnet attaches at the router? )
This is the first time I've been late with a solstice or equinox post. On the 21st of December at 10:44 UTC it was the start of Winter for the Northern hemisphere, Summer down south. Rendered in Catfood Earth (back dated to the right date and time... Windows, Android).
(Previously, Previously, Previously)
(Published to the Fediverse as: Winter Solstice 2016 #code #earth #solstice #winter #summer #hibernal #southern The exact moment of Winter Solstice 2016 rendered in Catfood Earth. )
Photo of the Train of Lights on the Niles Canyon Railway.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Train of Lights #photo #train Photo from the Train of Lights on the Niles Canyon Railway. )
Time-lapse panning over the San Francisco bay area from the Gardner Lookout at the east peak of Mount Tamalpais.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Tam Pan #timelapse #4k #video 4k time-lapse from Mount Tamalpais in Marin County looking over the San Francisco bay area. )
4/5
I much prefer flashback Reacher to modern day midwest town trauma Reacher. This is one of the best.
Photo of The Helen Madere Memorial Rio Vista Bridge spanning The Sacramento River.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Rio Vista Bridge #photo #bridge Photo of The Helen Madere Memorial Rio Vista Bridge spanning The Sacramento River in California. )
A picture of a pitcher at the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Pitcher Plant #photo #pitcher Photo of a Pitcher Plant at the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. )
Could be anything... (seen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, do please leave a comment if you know what it is.)
(Published to the Fediverse as: Unidentified Butterfly #photo #butterfly What is clearly a zebra longwing butterfly at the Conservatory of Flowers in the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. )
A sunset timelapse rendered as ASCII art. Music from JukeDeck.
(Published to the Fediverse as: ASCII Sunset #timelapse #video #4k Sunset over the Pacific, a timelapse rendered as 4K ASCII art. )
I haven't checked Klout for a long time - while I was away they've decided I'm a expert in Indian politics. Explains a lot...
(Published to the Fediverse as: Expert #etc #klout Klout for some reason thinks that I am an expert in Indian Politics. )
Download a Sharepoint File with GraphServiceClient (Microsoft Graph API)
Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Sending email via GMail in C#/.NET using SmtpClient
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront