11th July, 2024: Waterloo Sunset.
Right … Thursdays …
It’s a Thursday: and … ?
I seem to have picked up an annoying, browser pop-up: advising me of assorted scary — and fraudulent — threats.
I’ve tried clearing my browser caches, and my browser history, to no effect.
And tried to block the thing in my settings.
I’ve not tried deleting the relevant .
plist files, yet: which is something of a last resort, given how macOS’s structure has changed, over the years*.I have left a message in Apple’s Community pages: which, hopefully, will help.
We’ll see.
~≈💻≈~
FINALLY!
It turns out I was looking in the wrong section of Safari’s settings.
Rather than trying to block the website I thought was sending the notifications … I had to deny permission to send notifications to the actual website … permission that was in a different section of the settings!
D’oh!
Let’s move on, shall we?
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum†, Olga‡ and Debbi§ putting in their answers: with everyone scoring five out of five.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?
Q1) Waterloo Station open on 11th July. Of which year of the 1840s?Q2) It opened as Waterloo what Station: Waterloo Bridge, Waterloo Road or Waterloo Cross?Q3) It replaced a station called what: Eight Oaks, Nine Elms or Ten Pines?Q4) Waterloo is next to a London Underground station. Called what?Q5) Finally … ? Waterloo Station is in which London Borough: Wandsworth, Lambeth or Southwark?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 10th July, 1553, saw Lady Jane Grey ascend the throne of where: England, Scotland or France?A1) England. (She was also Queen of Ireland.)Q2) She’d been named as heir by whom: Edward 6th, Henry 8th or Elizabeth 1st?A2) Edward 6th.Q3) She was known as the Nine Days what?A3) The Nine Days Queen.Q4) Jane was a member of which Royal House: the Stewarts, Tudors or Windsors?A4) The Tudors.Q5) Finally … ? Who replace Jane on 19th July, 1553: Mary 1st, Elizabeth 1st or James 6th and 1st?A5) Mary 1st.
Here’s a thought …
“The station’s formal name is London Waterloo, and appears as such on all official documentation.”From the Wikipedia entry on the station.
And a playlist …
Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.
Decisions about scores are final.
Thank you for coming: have a good day.
* If I’ve understood things correctly, .
plist files are the Mac equivalent to the Windows registry: they contain a user’s individual settings for a given application. The files were — as far as I could see — a lot easier to find in earlier versions of macOS.† Hello, Mum!
‡ I’ll have to ask her, Olga: her recent potato crop looked good. They were red ones, which are nice, chipped!
It is: I visited a few years ago: the stained glass is amazing!
§ I can imagine you’re feeling a bit woozy, Debbi! It’s definitely unpleasant, isn’t it?
¶ Slade had a fantastic live reputation!
Q1) 1848
ReplyDeleteQ2) Waterloo Bridge
Q3) Nine Elms
Q4) Waterloo
Q5) Lambeth
I do like red potatoes. It's worth seeing what she says, and she might have a lot of something she won't use up herself. I remember when we used to go to Galicia to my father's birthplace, a lot of our relatives had plots (it's a rural area, so some are pretty big), and usually there a lot of the crops would be late, because it is a very rainy but not so sunny area (although things are changing as well), and, of course, the same vegetables would be ready at the same time for everybody, so at times we had several relatives offering us green beans, or lettuces, or whatever, because although they kept some in jars or froze them, they still have too much. But as we were only there for a few weeks, we ended up eating much the same all the time, and we didn't have a big freezer and couldn't take the produce with us, so...
Well, it seems you've sorted the issue. I am sure they must come up with new versions of programmes for good reasons, but sometimes they just seem to unnecessarily complicate things. (Well, I guess they have to keep themselves in the job...)
1 1848
ReplyDelete2 Waterloo Bridge
3 Nine Elms
4 Waterloo
5 Lambeth
Even now, yes. :) But better than yesterday.
ReplyDelete1. 1848
2. Waterloo Bridge
3. Nine Elms
4. Waterloo East
5. Lambeth
Love your choice of earworms! :)
ReplyDeleteSorry, Paul. I got a call from Pau, and I ended up having to do an interview this morning and going to the radio to edit it this afternoon. And, to make things more interesting, we had a power cut and then the internet went down for a while as well, so I'm running quite late. Hopefully, tomorrow things might be back to normal. Take care!
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