Kevin's Watch

Thanks U. Yes - IIRC you have indeed helped with this advice before. Sheer indolence n my part not to have taken up the baton and learned the technique (old dogs and new tricks etc ). This time I'll take it on board and have a few practice runs and hopefully be forearmed next time the Sunday papers are full of crap (ie this Sunday coming one expects ).

So...These days I personally use a browser plug-in available for Firefox and Chrome called "Lazarus Form Recovery."

Install it in your browser, and if you ever lose a post, you can recover it in its entirety by activating the plug-in and selecting the relevant text, which it saves as you type.

--A

The Chrome utilising device I use Av, never seems to give me any problems - it's that Internet Explorer one! Alas my machine is so antiquated I can't get any other browser to work. But, as we have discussed, I have plans.....oh yes I have plans....!

I refuse to believe chrome won't work on your old machine.

--A

Well - it might just be me ..........

The only plug-in I use continually is AdBlock. It works so well, I forget it's there. Until I see someone else on FB and I'm like "Why are there ads?"

I don't know what a plug-in is and have never heard of adblock

I guess I'm used to ads - they don't bother me unless they open a separate window (rare these days) or expand to cover what I'm trying to read (more common, or maybe it's just the extra-heavy advertising at this time of year).

Some of it has been rather amusing lately - I made the mistake of actually clicking on an ad for a faux-fur something-or-other in a moment of that's-cool-but-I-don't-need-it. After that, I was bombarded with ads for fake fur everything, and when I failed to take the bait, they escalated to ads for real fur. Dear Googlebots: Epic target audience fail.

It's always reassuring to find evidence that the bots aren't quite ready to stage their takeover.

I know of a few sites where the ads often slow the page down noticeably, even on my PC, so I'm glad for adblock there.

Now what I really need is to put an adblocker on my phone, because they're way more obnoxious and pretty often break pages entirely.

Sorus wrote:It's always reassuring to find evidence that the bots aren't quite ready to stage their takeover.

Google is working on it.

--A

Avatar wrote:

Sorus wrote:It's always reassuring to find evidence that the bots aren't quite ready to stage their takeover.

Google is working on it.

--A

I have a sledgehammer.

Not gonna matter. You can sledgehammer your own stuff...but not everybody else's. They'll get there in the end.

--A

Remember the SRD short story Mythological Beast. People are gonna start moving away from this stuff before long. What seem like cool gadgets today will be perceived as intrusive tools of manipulation tomorrow. Familiarity will bring perhaps deserved contempt.

Watched a couple of very good episodes of Black Mirror recently (they're separate stories (near-future sci-fi), but the ones I saw focused on the effect of technology on human relations. Some interesting observations.

u.

I've watched those. Pretty good.

I dunno Peter...what I'm seeing is the compromise between manipulation and convenience.

I see the gadgets evolving, but not us giving them up.

--A

Guy came into the shop with a T-shirt bearing the logo Jesus is a cunt. On the reverse was a picture of a nun with a crucifix shoved suggestively into a certain portion of her anatomy. I asked if he would walk down through Southall in London (a predominantly Muslim area) wearing a shirt with Mohammed in place of Jesus, to which his response was a weak titter.

It is, to my mind , a measure of Christianity's maturity and confidence in it's position that it can absorb such immature insult without the need to inffict immediate and extreme punishment (which would have undoubtedly have occurred in the locality I cited). When Islam can similarly treat with the contempt it deserves, such purile and childish provocations then it will have truly joined the modern world and be ready to engage and contribute at the level at which I believe it is capable.

Peter - guys like that will always pick a soft target. easy to be "daring" when there is no threat to oneself.

Agreed Sarge. It's shock for no other purpose than shock and deserving of contempt at every level.

(My deep apologies for not using 'stars' in the post to anyone I have offended. Thereby I demonstrate my own equal level of stupidity.)

Ah, the last great swearing taboo of civilised society.

--A

yes, and I broke it: another byproduct of that heavy Christmas! I feel ashamed.