Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 19th September 2024.

19th September, 2024.

What happened there … ?

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.

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Let’s move on.


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga†, Mum‡ and Debbi§ putting in their answers: with Olga scoring five out of five, and Mum and Debbi on four.

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s political questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video.

Q1)        19th September is International Talk Like A What Day: pirate, pansy or potato?

Q2)        19th September saw an earthquake hit Mexico.   19th September of which year of the 1980s?

Q3)        Flipper debuted on 19th September, 1964.   What was Flipper: a dog, a dolphin or a seal?

Q4)        19th September is the feast day of Saint Januarius.   He’s the patron saint of what: Accident and Emergency departments, blood banks or hospices?

Q5)        Finally … ?   19th September, 1898, saw the birth of Giuseppe Saragat.   He was the fifth president of where: Italy, the Fifth French Republic or Spain?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        18th September, 2014, saw where vote on becoming independent from the UK: Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales?

A1)        Scotland.

Q2)        The question on the ballot was “Should [the nation] be an independent what?”: country, county or province?

A2)        Country.

Q3)        True or false: the voters could vote “Maybe”.

A3)        False: they could only vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

Q4)        Better Together was the main group campaigning to remain in the UK.   Who were the main group campaigning for independence?

A4)        Yes Scotland.

Q5)        Finally … ?   The country voted to remain in the UK.   What, according to exit polls, was the deciding factor: keeping the pound, ditching the monarchy or disaffection with Westminster?

A5)        Keeping the pound.

Here’s a thought …

“I happen to think that videogames are an ideal means to help broaden the imaginations of young people.”

Adam West, September 19, 1928 – June 9, 2017

A song …

And an earworm …


Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.

Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        I’ve come to expect the odd quirk when doing these major updates go through: having to re-sign in to sites, having new changes to the interface, what have you.   But using two browsers to work on one post was a bit much!

        As a possible upside?   The autocomplete function in Safari seems to work well.

†        I’m grateful you mentioned that, Olga: I would never have noticed.   I’m just wondering how I managed it: as the original document said ‘September’!   I’m blaming Bill Gates!   Or Tim Cook.   Or Tim Berners-Lee … … 

        I think there’s always going to be problems with a written constitution, Olga: unless there’s some sort of method for changing it.   Saying that?   Britain’s got it’s — ha — unwritten constitution: I suspect that not being written down — in one place! — works for a lot of people.   Anything that says we can or can’t do something is hard to find.

        At the risk of showing my ignorance, Olga?   What does ‘la pepa’ mean … ?   Google Translate is having spasms!

‡        Hello, Mum!   (The group was called ‘Yes Scotland’.)

§        That’s, what, the first twelve or so amendments, isn’t it, Debbi?   I’m pretty sure I’ve gone a Teaser about it.   Yes, I did, here.   You did rather well, I seem to recall!

        Oh, ‘Yes Scotland’ were the campaign group: ‘Vote Leave’ were the Brexit campaigners.