{"id":2337,"date":"2021-05-09T19:38:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2021-05-09T20:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T20:20:54","slug":"sunday-9th-may-2021-day-419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/09\/sunday-9th-may-2021-day-419\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 9th May, 2021 [Day 419]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today being a Sunday, we were on our normal Sunday routine which involved me getting to the newspaper shop early and then getting back in time for the Andrew Marr<\/em> show at 9.00am. At this hour on a Sunday morning, the only\u00a0<\/span>people\u00a0you happen to meet are joggers, often in pairs, and as they are watching their breaths, they generally do not relish any type of a conversation. Instead, we each make do with a grunt (if that!) as we pass in the street. After we had watched the Andrew Marr<\/em> show and breakfasted, Meg and I walked down to the park in the most beautiful spring sunshine. As we walked down we saw one of our Italian\u00a0friends and spent a few happy minutes with her and then we met some of our Catholic friends and we exchanged our thoughts on the current political situation (we largely think alike on such issues, as it happens). Eventually we got to the park where we really enjoyed the spring sunshine. We take down with us every day a National Trus<\/em>t portable stool which is\u00a0incredibly light-weight and seems a little like a walking stick but in which you can pull down the seat and you have a three-legged stool. We use this every day to act as a little table whilst I pour the coffee and it always attracts a\u00a0great of admiring comment from the various passers by, many of\u00a0whom know us by now. We met 3-4 of our friends (with whom\u00a0we generally coincide at about midday) and exchanged some stories. Then we reluctantly made our way home as we know there was a Sunday lunch to cook but we felt we had a very enjoyable and entertaining morning as the fine weather encouraged us to stop, linger and chat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday afternoons are\u00a0generally well occupied with newspaper reading but today as result of late declarations and a lot of \u00a0analysis of the recent elections, we let this wash over us during the afternoon as well. We sometimes tend to watch the Parliament Channel at about 6.00pm on a Sunday\u00a0because they have a repeat of Question Time<\/em> which is first broadcast\u00a0act about 8.30 each Thursday evening. \u00a0As this had been\u00a0<\/span>Election Day and therefore no results had been announced, we thought we might give this program a miss but thought we would give it a try for 5 minutes or so. But one of the programme’s panelists was John Bercow, the ex-speaker of the House of Commons, and he was extremely erudite and well worth listening to. So we stayed with the whole of the programme which, ss it turned out, was\u00a0particularly interesting this week in both the questions asked and the analysis offered.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As I woke up early this morning, I judged it not worth going back to sleep again so I went on to my IBM\u00a0<\/span>ThinkPad to explore some new possibilities. As Windows 7 is massively insecure, I am going to confine my ventures on the web to the absolute minimum but I was speculating to myself whether it was possible to access the internet but without using a browser. I know that in the text editor which is my favourite editor for the MAC it is possible to just type in the full\u00a0address of a website (complete with its http:\/\/)<\/em>\u00a0and then just click on it and this link will take you straight to the URL. So I\u00a0wondered if there was a PC\u00a0equivalent and after a bit of searching through bulletin\u00a0boards and queries, I discovered that I was not alone in\u00a0seeking for a text editor (nothing as\u00a0full blown as a word-processor) and eventually settled upon NotePad++<\/em> ( a free program but\u00a0which does exactly what I want) So now for my ‘regular’ visits to websites that I know about (e.g. some of my own) then I have them in a simple computer file and click the link. This worked very\u00a0well and I\u00a0realise that I am actually using the\u00a0browser (because\u00a0whether the browser gets its data from the keyboard or from a clickable link, the end result is the same and it has to ‘do\u00a0its stuff’ to\u00a0locate this on the\u00a0internet). Anyway, I figure that\u00a0this method will cut out\u00a0key logging problems and means that as I am not actually firing up the browser then this might make the process a tad more secure (but I may be completely wrong on this point). I then realised that as my new browser Pale\u00a0Moon<\/em>\u00a0is essentially FireFox<\/em> and it accepts most of the early extensions written for it, whether it would be possible to\u00a0locate\u00a0and add on FireFTP<\/em> – an FTP client which is incredibly\u00a0concise and works very well. But Firefox<\/em> dropped it in their later versions as it\u00a0didn’t fit their latest profile but I managed to locate it, install it and run it to my satisfaction. Having installed it, I\u00a0didn’t know\u00a0where it\u00a0actually was\u00a0but Pale\u00a0Moon<\/em> has a clickable list of options when you click on the Pale\u00a0Moon<\/em> name and there, lurking at the of a section called ‘Developers’ was the program I had just installed. So yet\u00a0another bonus for a little bit of\u00a0playing about.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today being a Sunday, we were on our normal Sunday routine which involved me getting to the newspaper shop early and then getting back in time for the Andrew Marr show at 9.00am. At this hour on a Sunday morning, the only\u00a0people\u00a0you happen to meet are joggers, often in pairs, and as they are watching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}