Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 97
December 7, 2013
Pingbacks
http://just-ask-kim.com/trackbacks/#.UqOzyvQacXs
Anyone who might’ve read me on this topic already need not continue; for it’s more of the same.
I don’t get pingbacks.
You’d think I would after wading through the article linked above, wouldn’t you? But she seems to be writing about people … ahh … kind of inserting pingbacks into posts, doesn’t she …?
Whereas my (limited) experience of them thus far is to follow them when they appear in Comments after some of my own posts, and find at the other en...
December 6, 2013
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
Behold Le Château d’Entrechaux! – dans le département de Vaucluse (Drôme) et la région des Rhône-Alpes.
This I did not take myself, nono!: my wonderful husband, the stills photographer, was the operator. Comme presque d’habitudeduring our European travels.:-)
This is a really GRAND shot: the contrast between the foreground out-of-season vines in their perfect rows, sharp as pins, and the misty ruins of the Château in the background – if that doesn’t compare and contrast the present and the past...
Moving backwards with the times
I feel impelled to write something about Microsoft’s most recent and most loathed foray into the market – Windows 8.
As to why I feel so impelled … I think it’s rage at the con being perpetrated on some of the public – the ones who don’t know what they’re letting themselves in for.
Seems (imnsho) that Microsoft decided everyone should have a touchscreen thinggy of some kind. That’s what they wanted (buggered if I know why: does MS sell handheld devices?) so that’s what they set out to promulgat...
December 4, 2013
Areopagitica
In 1644 John Milton published the Areopagitica as an appeal to Parliament to rescind their Licensing Order of the previous year.
This order had been drawn up to bring publishing under government control by creating a number of official censors; and authors would have to submit their work to them prior to publication.
Milton’s argument was that pre-censorship of authors was really an excuse for state control of thought.
But he felt that some accountability was necessary to ensure that ‘libellous...
December 3, 2013
Things CAN get worse; and they’re doing so
I wouldn’t have thought it possible. But check this article in today’s The Monthly:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/11535
Filed under: politics Tagged: Australian politics
Palmer and McGowan: A study in contrasts
Reblogged from Drag0nista's Blog:
Palmer and McGowan: A study in contrasts. Post for The Hoopla.
Drag0nista is ALWAYS worth reading; and this article is one to keep for referring back to.
December 2, 2013
AFP forgot something!
What was overlooked is the fact that the Danes make the best television crime drama in the world. That’s enough to keep any population happy.:-)
Filed under: television Tagged: Danish TV
Weekly writing challenge: Snapshots
“Whaaaaa–?”
and I’m awake. What time is it? – there’s very little light coming through the blind …
Surely it wasn’t Lui who woke me?
I listen for repeated sounds of feline claws scratching at the bedroom door, but hear nothing. Lying there, swearing roundly and knowing something must’ve disturbed my sleep, I’m suddenly made aware of what it was, as a trembling, swelling, avian cry is repeated.
Koel. A bloody KOEL. Bummer: it’s koel season already?!
I’m listening to the first – the harbinger of man...
November 30, 2013
CS Monthly photo
November 29, 2013
Daily Prompt: Keeping up with the Jones’ …
