5 January
Yet
another Monday morning and we’re up early because we have a friend arriving at
around 10.30 for a visit. This time next week I shall be trying to deaden the
sound of the workers ripping out our old kitchen ready for installing the new
one. That we are not looking forward to but we are going to have to put up
with. I can always de-camp down to the library to get so I can get some writing
done. If not there I should be OK in the bedroom. Kile is due here on Thursday
evening and will stay here until Sunday when he goes back home ready for school
on Monday. He’s not overly happy that this weekend he won’t be able to come for
a month all told. Well, we will all have to make do I’m afraid.
On
Saturday I mentioned all the How To books, along with the various writing
related magazines that are on the market and how if we are not careful we would
end reading so many of them that we don’t have time to actually do any writing.
The vast photo-mag industry is the same really, and yet I do read them and enjoy
them. I finished AP yesterday and Nphoto
last night. The highlight in the latter for me was the interview with Mike
Maloney, a pro-snapper who worked for the Daily
Mirror for a long time. Mike explained how he became a snapper and worked
his way the slippery pole. He’s the one that got a shot of the Queen jumping up
and waving her fist because her horse was winning a race she attended. But
there’s another printed in the mag, of the Queen again, but this time picking
her nose. I’m not sure she enjoyed having that being published!
We still
haven’t had the chance to go off for another day yet this year, and it looks
like it will be at least a month before we can think of planning one. What we
will need to do is to make sure we don’t go on a Thursday seeing as we have
Kile here every Thursday night. But where to go … We both like Oxford while I
enjoy Cambridge, while Jan doesn’t. We are both looking for a chance to get to
Brum when the market is on, lots of photos there. We will need to have our
scooters with us, the city centre is far too big to try to get around using our
walkers.
Then of
course there’s all the birding sites. We decided that we won’t be going birding
this year anyway. By that I mean we won’t be keeping a sightings list, but of
course there are lots of photos at them. But which site; Slimbridge, Titchwell,
London Wetlands Centre, Leighton Moss, Paxton Pits, Brandon Marsh … … …
Windows
10 is still got me puzzled somewhat. Computeractive
a list of over 50 changes MS had changed during an upgrade from W8.1. I worked
through them and changed the ones that they recommend, even though I have a clean
installation on a new PC. And yet I am still getting loads of ads coming
through on Firefox. The new Edge, the replacement to the old one, is even worse
and I can’t see the work desk for all the ads that continually pop-up. In the
same mag about a month ago, I read of a way to stop that. At that time I wasn’t
interested in W10, so I let the mag go. Of course, I could do with now.
Two particular
ads that I am concerned about, are coming up when I click through a link in
Firefox, both are security related. I normally close them when they appear, but
is that the right reaction. At the moment for on-line security I am using the month’s
free trail of MacAfee. That is due to run out in seven days. After that I am
puzzled as to what to do next. According to a Which? Test, Kaspersky is the best of the bunch, and at only £19
for a year, it is tempting. I normally use Norton 360 though and in this test
it got the same result as the two above. They all have their own strengths and
weaknesses of course, but I still have a week to decide.
Here’s
another shot of rocks at Ballycastle ...
Today’s
funny (sorry for the underlining, I can't get rid of it) …
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