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image of dickimaw parrot with cookies in cloudsOnce upon a time, a little parrot decided to migrate across the vast ocean to the cloud lands, with nothing more than a handful of cookies. The Dickimaw Books site has migrated to a new web hosting provider and this is the story of its journey.
Nicola Talbot 2019-09-15 📂 Site 🔖 Migration
image of dickimaw parrot with cookies in cloudsOnce upon a time, a little parrot decided to migrate across the vast ocean to the cloud lands, with nothing more than a handful of cookies. The Dickimaw Books site has migrated to a new web hosting provider and this is the continuing story of its journey.
Nicola Talbot 2019-09-17 📂 Site 🔖 Migration
image of dickimaw parrot with cookies in cloudsSo many websites have cookies. What exactly are cookies, and what do they do?
Nicola Talbot 2019-09-20 (updated 2021-06-05) 📂 Site 🔖 Cookies Migration
Image of Dickimaw parrot in clouds with some cookies and a hamburgerA guide to the Dickimaw Books site settings.
Nicola Talbot 2019-09-28 (updated 2023-05-05) 📂 Site 🔖 Cookies Site settings
There are a number of RSS feeds and other notifications available on the Dickimaw Books site.
Nicola Talbot 2019-12-05 📂 Site 🔖 News Notifications
Image of sample page with navigational iconsThe Dickimaw Books site now has a new book samples area. This provides a selection of sample images taken from pages of the selected paperback book with an accompanying audio track.
image of dickimaw parrot with cookies in cloudsIn the first post of this blog, I wrote about my decision to migrate to a new web hosting provider back in 2019. Last week, the site migrated again, but this time I stayed with the same web hosting provider. I moved from the cloud hosting platform (which uses a server cluster) to a newer single server platform.
Nicola Talbot 2021-05-26 📂 Site 🔖 Migration
Main navigation bar showing Account highlightedIf you are a regular visitor to the site, you may have noticed that there’s a new “Account” link in the navigation bar (situated below the title banner). That page provides access to the main site account where you can manage your notifications and keep track of any bug reports, feature requests, comments or typo reports that you have submitted.
Nicola Talbot 2021-06-05 (updated 2023-05-06) 📂 Security Site 🔖 Account Cookies Notifications
The Dickimaw Books store has unfortunately closed until further notice. The reason for this is because PayPal has removed support for encryption with its PayPal Payments Standard option.
For some weeks now, the forms on this site, such as the contact page, have been unable to send an email. It seems to be caused by an SSL issue outside of my control. All support channels to the web hosting company used by this site are down, which means I can’t even report the issue, let alone get it fixed.
Nicola Talbot 2022-08-28 (updated 2022-10-08) 📂 Site 🔖 News
Image of magnifying glass over a green bug.I was recently informed that dickimaw-books.com had a medium severity reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the version of cPanel this website was using at the time. I solved the problem by moving to a new web-hosting provider that didn’t have the issue. The security researcher used a non-invasive probe. No data was compromised.
Nicola Talbot 2023-05-22 (updated 2023-06-17) 📂 Security Site 🔖 Migration News Online Store
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I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing
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The Foolish Hedgehog
Information about the illustrated children’s book. See the book’s main page for further details.
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Alternative history novel set in 1980s/90s London. See the book’s main page for further details.
The Private Enemy
A crime/speculative fiction novel set in a future Norfolk run by gangsters. See the book’s main page for further details.
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A cybercrime fiction short story (available as an ebook). See the story’s main page for further details.
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