Yesterday, I was complaining that — using the updated version of Safari, Safari 18 — I was having trouble uploading video and photos: specifically to my Blogger-powered blog.
The one you’re reading now, in other words.
Today … ?
I had no problem.
Quite what happened, there?
Bar me, cleaning Safari’s caches?
And bar suspecting it had something to do with the update from Sonoma to Sequoia*?
I don’t know!
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In other news … ?
You and I are both aware the Middle East is a … …
Well, disaster seems the right word.
A couple of days ago?
A lot of booby-trapped pagers went off in Lebanon: ones own by members of Hezbollah.
Followed by exploding walkie-talkies, a day later.
My thoughts are with those killed and injured.
But?
My curious side has come out to play.
And is wondering:
How who-ever did this managed to carry out those attacks.
Does anyone else know how to do it?
That’s the worrying bit …
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Just as a last thought about macOS Sequoia?
The new window tiling feature that’s been introduced looks useful, already.
It’s letting me arrange the template I use to write these Teaser posts.
That’s handy: it makes dragging and dropping from one file to another, a lot easier.
As ever, I’m up early: as I have a weight management meeting, today.
Hopefully?
I’ll’ve lost more weight: which would carry on the trend from last week.
Here’s hoping!
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It’s also official: there’s a bit of a fuss in the United States.
Yes: someone’s tried assassinating Donald Trump … again!
They missed, I should add.
But have been arrested.
Which is a good thing: at least the suspect can be questioned about his motives.
But … ?
I have to ask a couple of things.
One … ?
For all the USA’s vaunted Right to Bear Arms, how is it assassins cant seem to shoot straight?
Second, and more seriously?
How is it Trump’s managed to annoy people enough, that people think shooting him is a good idea?
He should lose the election, by losing votes.
Not get shot, before the election.
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Just as a last thought … ?
We know Keir Starmer’s premiership is in trouble: in between the Winter Fuel payment, and a potential donation scandal, already.
That does put me in mind of an old Terry Pratchett quote: from Small Gods.
“[At every election] someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary [person] in the streets”
That quote’s probably got a lot of applications: especially if you can included the word ‘corrupt’, somewhere!
Bar getting a little shopping … and forgetting to pick up a prescription!
Never mind!
At any rate … ?
It’s a Friday: dinner is cooking.
And … ?
Once I’ve had that, and caught another episode of The Big Bang Theory … ?
I’ll be watching the next episode of classic Dr Who series, The Celestial Toymaker: you’ll be reading this, or watching the video version, by Sunday, 15th September.
Or, at least, military action: as Russia’s war on Ukraine carries on.
Yesterday? Keir Starmer, the UK’s Prime Minister, met with President Biden to discuss a range of subjects.
Including the War in Ukraine: and more aid.
In the shape of missiles capable of hitting Russian military bases, in Russia.
Except … ?
Ukraine isn’t allowed to use the things.
And, as a result of the two hours worth of talks?
Is still not allowed to use the things on Russian territory.
Why? I don’t know.
But it seems a bloody stupid move to give or sell — at a discount — a lot of long range missiles … and then say to Ukrine, “You’re not allowed to use them.”
I’m going to start watching the recently released Classic Dr Who serial, The Celestial Toymaker: and should have my written and video reviews done by Sunday.
I’ve picked up — and taken — the Mounjaro I’ve been prescribed.
Hopefully, the blood tests I’m due to have, next week, will show what sort of effect it’s having.
I think it’s doing something.
Unlike the Trulicity I was on — but much the Ozempic I was originally using — I get a case of the jitters once I’ve had a dose.
I’m taking that as a good sign.
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I don’t know if some things are wise.
I’ve done a few things over the years, that definitely weren’t!
But … ?
I’m thinking about politics, here.
Seemingly?
Donald Trump has confirmed that — should he win this year’s US presidential election? — he’s planning to appoint X owner, Elon Musk, to what Trump calls a ‘government efficiency force.’
After Elon publicly endorsed Trump’s campaign.
Outside of the fact that that sounds like a ‘Cash for Honours’ arrangement?
I don’t think that’s wise.
It’s whiffy, rather than wise: smelly, rather than sensible.
But if appointing a man who owns a media platform is wise, is sensible, is — ha — a good thing?
Then Silvio Berlusconi’s appointment as Italian PM — despite his owning three of Italy’s biggest TV channels, despite his alleged links to the Mafia, despite the many controversies — was very wise, indeed.
Means I’ve got the day free, having finished rendering a lot of videos!
I might just have to watch some TV in between everything else!
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As I’ve started writing this … ?
I’ve got the Todayprogramme, Radio Four’s early morning current affairs programme, on in the background.
Do you remember hearing the news about the Grenfell Tower fire, back in 2017?
I certainly do: seeing the images of a burning tower block was one of the most shocking things I think I’d ever seen in my life.
Even now, it’s distressing to see.
What was shocking for me … ?
Was the fact I had a (thankfully) distant connection to it.
I worked for Pinnacle, at the time: the company handled out of hours emergency repair calls for various social landlords, including Kensington and Chelsea Council, the owners of Grenfell Tower*.
I knew the young woman who was on duty, that night: who handled the horde of emergency housing requests that started coming in.