@rapido you aren't, I must have been reading the computer sideways...I blame that radioactive spider..oh and working very late..

For iOS users here's a good summary of the new alert;

Barbara Krasnoff  /  Apr 26, 2021  /  front-page How to use the iOS app tracking blocker How to use the iOS app tracking blocker

iOS forces new apps to ask permission to track you.

TL;DR; Always choose "Ask App Not to Track"

So far, 94% of users are choosing it.

@dogmeat said in Big Cats 🐱:

@r-l said in Big Cats 🐱:

I heard myself then, ive turned into half of you lot.

😲 what pronoun do you want us to use?

Second Lol of the day. Well done.

At least half of us are Polish chicks so "she" should be O.K. just as a generalisation? My pronoun protocol may not be up to date though.

@smudge said in Thrashed CD's:

In the summer of 1994/95, my parents decided to do a road trip from Dunedin up to Auckland for Xmas. With one sister already having left home, and the other on exchange in Finland, 15yo me had the back seat of our 1986 Toyota Corona to myself. After taking SH1 all the way north, we took our time coming home via the BOP, around East Cape and down through Shield Snorters.

Anyway, I tore through packets of AA batteries listening to cassettes on my Walkman, and the one that I could listen to over and over was Crowded House's Together Alone. Still my favourite CH album to this day.

Others on high rotate for me on my 3-CD player and later my 25+1 CD player/stero were:

Radiohead - The Bends Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation Gomez - Bring It On Chemical Brothers - Surrender

That is a cracking selection of music. Radiohead's best album for me.

i love watching a commercial kitchen. Sat next to an open one in St Kilda a couple of years back. I was fascinated by their hot plate. Over actual coals, on a pully system so they moved it up and down depending on what they were cooking. It was awesome.

Fucking great meal too from memory (i also drank a skinfull)

@dogmeat said in Songs that remind you of...:

@snowy yeah but as a recompense you get to call yourself - A TROUBADOR!

You spelt "twat" wrong.

@kruse I think they call them pokie machines mate

@booboo said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:

But still ...
... Why the rest of it?

As in, why have I not topped myself? Not sure I understand the question.

@catogrande said in The difference in decades.........:

@pakman Wasn't it Prince Stavros that said if a man opens the door of a car for his wife, it's either a new wife or a new car? 😁

Not any more.

@crucial said in The Interweb:

@chris-b said in The Interweb:

@crucial So far, Skinny is the only one I've hit that says VDSL is available with them.

Of course, the question is, whether that is actually true - but, it gives them an inside track.

That’s hilarious as Skinny is just a brand of Spark.

FFS!!! 🙂

@taniwharugby Hoping to do ours all power free and we have plenty of fall. Should be O.K. if we are 4 bed not 6.

@tim

Bugger.

One of my favourite actors. Real screen presence and could play a huge range of roles.

@taniwharugby And just over the way is Mermaid Pools, beautiful but with a rahui on them because they’ve been trashed after thousands of tourists came with internet fame. A little further round is pebbly beach, one of the best just walk in snorkelling spots to take the kids, a load of fish and rays. then there’s Whale Bay, Sandy’s etc etc.

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@catogrande She's going on Wednesday to pastures new unfortunately ...

Great experience, great fun, thoroughly recommend to everybody. But it is time for me to move on.

Ten years today. Wow. Horrible loss of life, a vastly changed city scape and so many different individual stories of the day. Feel free to share yours.

I was early for a haircut at Settlers Crescent in Ferrymead so was parked up on the side of the road, looking at my phone (maybe work emails but just as likely I was on Facebook). It suddenly started shaking violently. A side to side motion mostly from memory. I could see street lamps swaying. This lasted for a while but I don't think it seemed all that long whereas others recall it seeming to last for ages. Cracks opened up in asphalt footpaths and driveways but I think the road at that stage was ok. I pulled up into the driveway of my hairdresser where they'd all come outside. Ladies had foils and colour in their hair. There were lots of tears.

@nta said in Music production software:

The Boy had Garage Band for his Macbook. Given that a shot? He successfully coordinated one of the Dwarf songs from The Hobbit using himself as 5 bass vocal parts + 1 guitar...

He's got student access to the full Adobe Suite now of course, so is doing his music, stage production, and multimedia with that.

Haven't tried recording to it. He messed around with it years ago on ipad, haven't had a go since he has started getting serious.

SWIFT sets up JV with China's central bank

SHANGHAI, Feb 4 (Reuters) - SWIFT, the global system for financial messaging and cross-border payments, has set up a joint venture with the Chinese central bank’s digital currency research institute and clearing centre, in a sign that China is exploring global use of its planned digital yuan.

@Higgins in the interests of justice I always feel that the family shouldn't have any input.

I must say I'm surprised at the sentence. This individual seems beyond redemption and as strange as it may seem given my previous occupation, I've always been opposed to the death sentence. People like him are making me reconsider that stance.

@RoninWC hope it works out for him mate. Tough year for many.

College Hall for life!