Head of School at Coventry University, part time computer scientist, itinerant preacher and wannabe silversmith.

UK
Joined February 2009
Been trying to give some interesting backgrounds to today's online meetings courtesy of Bing's image creator. Apparently I can easily create an image of a warrior priestess teaching cyber security at University, but requests for a picture of an LGBT church service are blocked!
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In today's fun, I had to get some information for a timetable and put it on the webserver which expected an Excel spreadsheet as input. Simple I thought, MS Forms outputs to a spreadsheet, so just some simple power automate should do it. Except that 1) Form wasn't in the right
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edit the document and not the document itself. So now I had to write a powershell script on my local machine which reads the file from the file system and SFTP it to the server. That should be running every 10 mins via the Windows scheduler, but doesn't seem to be.
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Finally, I have to make some tweaks to the Python code & Jinja template on the website (which thankfully is easy as it's well written), & a bit of Perl for some back end permissions. And that children, is why we first & foremost teach programming and not a particular language.
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french people really have nothing better to do? i know nobody is speaking in this video but it must be france xitter.cf/LlNZH0E/status/1615509…
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Happy New Year, and may 2023 be all that you hope it to be.
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Happy Halloween!
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One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen. Sensible, honest, smart. I’m posting the video directly as Times Radio tweeted it with a clickbait and somewhat misleading headline that unintentionally confirmed his point. More of this please.
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Turns out that I do need to let the cat out of the bag....
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NIST has released its Secure Software Development Framework. In it, it calls for the use of Software Bills of Materials — a kind of nutrition label to reduce software supply chain risk. Here's why you need to know what's in your software with SBOM Facts

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This. This is what annual leave is like for an academic trying to escape work
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Got my @flipper_net today. Here's the unboxing for anybody who is interested. When I get the time, I'll try out some of the features.
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Amazing what tyou spot on the way to work.
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Marching despite the rain!
Enjoying Oxford Pride and being on the Oxford Inclusive Churches stall.
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Are you coming to @oxfordpride ? We are! Opening prayers 10.30 @SMVOxford March 11.00 Radcliffe Square Ecumenical service 13.00 New Road Baptist church. And then @FirstSundayLGBT host the post-Pride party SUNDAY 7.30pm at @ChCh_Oxford