10th November, 2023.
I’ve GOT to confess: I have an earworm!
Miriam Makeba’s “Pata Pata”, so you know!
It’s a dance: one that’s supposed to imitate security guards, patting someone down.
And the song’s in Xhosa.
If my ailing memory’s working correctly? The ‘xh’ in Xhosa is a clicking noise: rather than an X sound.
It’s amazing what you learn.
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Talking of tunes? Which we weren’t, but there you go …
Talking of tunes, the BBC had a Dr Who night: at the recent Proms.
One that included a rendition of the theme — leitmotif? — for the 15th Doctor, himself,
I know it’s nothing like it … but the opening few seconds had me thinking of Dick Barton … !
I think it’s the drum beat.
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I wrote — a few days ago, now — about how a couple of internet services providers had blocked a pro-suicide site: and my concern that other ISPs hadn’t blocked it.
I should maybe not have worried.
As the site has decided to limit access to UK users: after Ofcom, the UK’s internet regulator, contacted them.
At least, according to the BBC, they have.
Granted: the site, itself, provides an onion link you can use with TorBrowser.
But?
That limitation is welcome.
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