Category: Techo stuff

Feedback please

I have changed the way in which slideshows are displayed in order to accommodate captions with two lines of text, which both Boadicea and Bravo have needed for their latest posts.

The modifications to the CSS sheets (don’t worry about it) have been tested in Chrome and Explorer 9, and everything works as it should in those two browsers.   I’ve also tested the alterations in SeaMonkey, which uses much of the same Mozilla code as Firefox, so all should be well there too.

But if something seems to be wrong with slideshows in your browser, I’d appreciate your comment with the details.

Thanks. 😀

 

Nostra Culpa !!

Yesterday a comment was received from a new blogger – Doctoreunos – targeted, as we thought, for Ferret’s current post “What’s the difference?”.   We three moderators conferred and decided that since the content had nothing to do with Ferret’s post – it was off-topic with a vengeance – we should trash it rather than approving it for publication.

However, having received another polite query this morning, I realised that the comment was actually targeted at another post with exactly the same name that Ferret posted way back in January.

I have reconstituted the comment and posted it in the correct place.   To avoid further confusion, I have renamed the old post slightly.

On behalf of all three moderators, I apologise to Doctoreunos for mishandling his interesting observations. 😥

On This Day Forty-Two Years Ago.

L. Wattage and the late Mrs. Wattage wed barely two years before, left the UK for a life in Canada.  We stayed ten years, it seemed longer than that at the time (a single Canadian winter seems to last almost a lifetime).  Some recent work reminiscences have led me back to the slender dusty records of those distant days.

Continue reading “On This Day Forty-Two Years Ago.”

Slideshows killed the flip chart

Downloads, legal or otherwise, are affecting sales in CDS/DVDS. E-books are damaging paperbacks. DRS technology is interrupting the flow of live sports. Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel peace prize made satire redundant (that one is © Tom Lehrer). David Miliband mutated from Sonny to Fredo when Ed led the family business. Apart from watches, digital crushed analogue. Continue reading “Slideshows killed the flip chart”

A little more about spoofed e-mails

This morning Boadicea received two e-mails, one of which purported to come from Janus, and the other from me.   They didn’t, of course.   The other recipients (addressees) of these two spoof e-mails were people who blog on The Chariot or on MyT, so you may have received them too.

I did a little research – e-mail protocols were not one of my specialist fields when I was still working, but the old brain hasn’t quite rusted yet. Continue reading “A little more about spoofed e-mails”

Bin ‘ot ‘ere

Our second week of 100 degree plus days and when the air conditioning on one’s car fails one is forced to get creative.

The window unit air conditioner was easily “foamed” into the right rear window, getting mains voltage requires the trunk mounted generator, a few sheet metal screws and she’s ready to go.
All-in-all a simple and elegant solution to an overheated commute.

On this Day 66 Years Ago.

July 16th 1945.

At 5:29:45 am at a place in Central New Mexico already known as “Jornado de Muerto” (Journey of Death) Richard Feynman, barely 27 years old, removed his protective glasses because he doubted anything would happen, he saw nothing of the event but a purple blotch on the floor of the armored vehicle he was in.

I. I. Rabi said later “It blasted, it pounced it bored its way into you”

There was a crack like a rifle shot which startled a New York Times reporter, “What was that!” he shouted. “That’s THE THING!” replied Feynman.

Nearby, Enrico Fermi tore pages from his notebook into quarters and dropped them slowly from his hand, mentally calculating the strength of the pressure wave from the fluttering leaves.

Feynman at last could see, and what he saw were clouds “What have we done to make clouds in the desert?” was his first thought.

Robert Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavid- Gita
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of Worlds”
He was closest to the truth.

The experiment was code named TRINITY and was the defining event of the 20th Century.

Within three weeks the two other bombs then in existence were exploded and the childhood of mankind was over.