Sense on Wind Farms From the Duke of Edinburgh
Wind generation of electricity has its place, but it will never generate the large amount of electricity we need. They only work economically with heavy subsidies and when the wind blows. They also need back-up power plants for when the wind doesn’t blow.
On the front page of the Sunday Times, the Duke of Edinburgh is quoted about his opposition to the farms.
We would be much better using the subsidies we all pay with our electricity bills to insulate houses and other buildings, rather than waste it on uneconomic wind farms.
A Test Post From Another Machine
I’m adding this post from another machine.
It seems to be working OK. The trouble is, it’s a small Samsung Netbook, which for my level of typing after the stroke is just too small.
Salford Claims A Victim
Tim Gudgin has read the football results on the BBC for the last 16 or so years.
Today will be his last reading, as he has resigned. He did indicate that to travel every week from the South Coast where he lives to Salford would just be too much.
The ridiculous move to Salford will change the BBC in many ways. not all, by any means will be positive.
Moving to Salford will prove to be a disastrous folly.
WordPress Has Gone Bonkers
What have WordPress done with their new version?
Two days ago, everything was working fine. In the last couple of years since the death of my wife and son, I have put nearly 4,000 posts into this blog. I have uploaded 3,500 images and a few videos and I have had virtually no issues at all.
Nearly, all of these posts have been on the same Compaq 6720s running Vista and Internet Explorer 8, that I have used since I bought it about four years ago. The few that weren’t posted in that way, have been posted in various Internet cafes on my travels.
As to the computer, it is a totally normal machine, with little added software, except mainly stuff that I’ve written myself.
So what has gone wrong?
Creating a Post
To create a post, I can get the Add New Post fine enough, but unless I switch from Visual mode to HTML mode and back again, I can’t type in anything meaningful.
Jumbled Tool Bars
The tool bars at the top of the window where I’m typing this, have got totally jumbled. The order at the moment is bold, ordered list, centre, italic, blockquote, spell check and so on. I said at the moment, as if you move the cursor over them, they all change. I did a video of it here. I would put a link on the word here, but I have no working link icon!
Editing Posts
I always edit in Visual mode, as I like to see what I’m getting. But to get that, I need to switch from Visual mode to HTML mode and back again.
Uploading Images
I can upload images to the media library, but that is all. I can’t put them into posts though, as after clicking insert Post, I just get a window showing Add Image with a X close button. If I close it to continue, the image disappears, although it is still in the Media Library.
If I use my Windows Iconia tablet computer running IE8, I can move the picture from the Media Library to the post, but that computer is only a toy with a small screen. I’ve also had a stroke and my hands aren’t good and find operating it difficult.
Inserting Links
I can’t do this in Visual mode, but I can in HTML mode. but as I said I prefer to work in Visual mode.
So what have I done to try to clear the problems.
I have put a few posts in the forums, and I have done some of what has been suggested like clear the cache and cookies. Others have been arrogant enough to suggest that I change browser. But then I can’t do that as I’ve written software that uses IE and I won’t be able to demonstrate that anymore.
I should say that no other software or web site is causing me any grief, but it does strike me that I might have caught some weird virus, athough scans run clear.
It’s all very puzzling.
I’ve just added this on another machine.
WordPress Going Bonkers
Look at this video of trying to edit a post on WordPress.
Every time, I move the cursor from icon to icon, the icon changes.
Is that a feature or a benefit?
An Unfair Playing Field
I’m not talking about the proposal to use artificial pitches, but the fact that Mancester City have made a record loss.
In a few years time, the teams that win will be those that have the biggest budgets and pay the highest wages.
Surely, we can create a fairer system than this. Even if we upset the sheikhs, foreign and currupt businessmen, who don’t understand the offside rule and dubious oligarchs, who want to own our game.
How about these new rules?
- Penalties can only be given to the home side.
- Every player registered by a club, can sit on the bench.
- If a player earns more than a million pounds a game, he can’t be shown a red card.
- The club with the largest budget, gets all the gate and TV receipts.
- Fifty percent of matches are played overseas.
- Fans who earn less than £20,000 a year are not allowed to buy tickets.
- Clubs don’t have to release players for international matches.
- No relegation.
- The winner of the FA Cup is drawn by lots. Clubs put any number of tickets into the pot at £1,000,000 a time, for the prize money.
Simon Barnes on Blatter
Simon Barnes is one of my favourite columnists and he said this in The Times today.
Dear reader, if you have ambitions of achieving power without responsibility, give up all thought of standing for local council or joining the civil service, or becoming head of state of a small African country. Go into sports administration instead.
You can be as mad, as foolish, as ridiculous and offensive as you please, but so long as you keep the sport a-coming, you will be safe as President-For-Life. All of which explains Sepp Blatter, President of Fifa. Blatter is a man who genuinely believes that he has a sort of King Midas Touch but the President Sepp Touch doesn’t turn dross in to gold.
I suspect Simon has just got himself struck off Sepp Blatter’s Christmas card list. Especially, after the last paragraph.
Blatter has offended women, the gay community, every non-white person on the planet, anyone with any feeling for football, and everyone who approves of such things as honesty, financial transparency and straightforward common sense but he’s just been re-elected. Precisely as you would expect.
I do hope that the British public make Sepp Blatter really welcome at the Olympics.
If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It!
I have used WordPress for many years and their latest upgrade is so full of bugs, you could show it in the insect house at the London Zoo.
It has meant that I can’t upload any pictures to the blog and creating a new post is a real study of perseverance.
If you edit a post, the post or the toolbars don’t appear unless you switch to HTML mode and then back to Visual. These toolbars can’t seem to get their icons right and if you move the cursor over them, the function changes.
Links can’t be setup in Visual mode, but you can do them in HTML mode.
When they coined the name software, it could have been made for this version of WordPress. It’s not just soft, but very very soft!
It’s all total crap to what it was.
92 Clubs – Day 48 – Yeovil
They say you should leave the best to last, but this was not a case of that. But with Yeovil, it was much a case of saving the worst to last.
The only good bit was going to the town on a High Speed Diesel Train changing at Castle Cary for Yeovil Pen Mill.
Before I left, I looked up their web site to see how you get to the ground from the station. My eyes aren’t good, but look at this page, which gives directions to the ground. Trains, buses and walking aren’t even mentioned. So I sent the club an e-mail and of course they didn’t bother to reply. They don’t appear from the site to run a match-day bus either!
When I arrived at the station, I walked to the town centre, along a pleasant path in a country park, but once in the centre, despite plenty of signs to it, I couldn’t find the tourist information centre. I think when I did, it wasn’t signed and it was closed.
So in the end I took a taxi to the ground and got the driver to drop me at the station on the way back. I think we saw just one sign to the ground and that was when you could actually see Huish Park. So I just took a picture and retreated.
Huish Park, Yeovil
The only trouble was I had to wait ninety minutes for the train. But at least the station was worth seeing from an architectural point of view and had been well restored.
I was back at Paddington just before 16:30 to complete my odyssey.
In my travels, I have not found a town or football club with so little information for vistors. I shall not be going again. I certainly won’t have to look far for my dump of the week.
A Dress For C!
C bought several of her summer dresses from Oasis. One particular pink halter neck dress appears in quite a few of the pictures, I have of her.
I have a feeling that this dress might well have ended up in her wardrobe.
A Dress for C!
One of the joys of living with C, was going shopping for clothes together. Often, she wouldn’t like a dress or I wouldn’t like a pair of trousers, but the other would say they would be fine. Usually, the decision was right.
So why is this dress so right for C?
Her arms and waist were her best features. her legs weren’t too bad either and although it would have been too short for her five years ago, with black tights, it certainly wouldn’t be now!
The Anonymous Widower 