2015 — 26 February: Thursday
I was right about "Something Wild" even given the depressingly-youthful appearance of its cast — it was well worth re-watching.1
Oh dear
Ms BBC Radio 3 tells me this morning that the Daily Torygraph tells her that "thousands of talented youngsters are fleeing abroad to better, higher-paid, jobs while six times as many migrants with low literacy and knew, new, numerac, number skills are flooding into the UK". Given the low number of actual immigrants, that would suggest very few of our talented youngsters are leaving. So it sounds awfully like a traditional Tory pre-election scare story to me, but what do I know?
Well, I know...
... the weather so far this morning says "Good choice to have walked yesterday, lad". Now, about a cup of tea. Any chance?
I've just found...
... my first Linux answer on "Stack Overflow". Handy.
What? No, I have no intention of telling you what my dumb question — there are no dumb questions: only dumb answers — was! (OK. I'd forgotten that the sensible [and memorable] "ipconfig" on Windows becomes the slightly less sensible [and certainly less memorable] "ifconfig" on Linux.)
You can't use "localhost" as part of a URL except when actually on, erm, the local host(!). So my pre-breakfast idle speculation was — since there's a lighttpd server now always running on BlackBeast — can I browse 'molehole' from elsewhere in the house on my SHIELD Tablet PC's web browser by specifying BlackBeast's IP address in the URL? And, naturally, I couldn't recall that IP address any better than I can recall my home phone number (for the simple reason I never seem to phone home when I'm out and about; probably because I know there's no-one in).
Turns out I can browse the internal 'molehole' web2 that way (though, of course, the Android SHIELD is now busy slurping down yet another OTA update). And, while the little Android robot is installing his new brain I notice he doesn't have the ability to swivel back to the upright position when the screen is in landscape orientation, either :-)
Time for that tasty mix of two types of plum, cranberries, and blackcurrants on top of the cardboard high-fibre sludge. Some might call it "breakfast". [Pause] Plus, inevitably, more tea.
I'm still planning...
... to enjoy a tasty chicken din-dins later tonight:
It's all protein!
Anyone else...
... aware that in 1999 French Vogue ran a special issue with a feature on quantum physics?!
Sacre (or do I mean 'scare'?) bleu!
If you substitute...
... the word "scanning" for the word "printing" in this slightly off-topic comment by "RealBigAl" to an interesting El Reg piece on OS security flaws...
... then I could just as easily have made it myself.
For my (rather late)...
... lemonses — I assume well past noon constitutes "rather late" — I chose to accompany my pre-lunch tea-and-a-biscuit treat with some non-radio music. So I fired up the decibel MP3 player (every bit as good and easy to use as the Boom player I used on Windows).
Despite its immediate willingness to carry on with the Eberhard Weber album I was chilling out to yesterday evening I pointed it randomly at the NAS #2 Music subdirectory G, non-album, wherein hang out the tracks that for one reason or another the insane music master who shares part of my cranium deemed best not-assigned to specific artists subdirectories (also under "G" of course). Then I hit the 'shuffle' button, twice, with the result that the music is nicely unsorted but will now play linearly through all 14 and a half hours of the shuffled playlist track-by-track if I have the patience.
I currently lack the ability Copernic on Windows gave me to index and search all my meta-tagged music files 'intelligently'. After numerous iterations and software mis-adventures over the past few years I concluded that this modus operandi suits me better than fighting endless poorly-programmed variations on the iTunes model, very few of which coped with a 'large' music collection without glitches.
And that includes (shudder) the truly abysmal Windows Media Player itself. (Can I now confess I never did get the hang of driving that back in my unlamented Vista days?) My short-lived copy of Vista ran on the dinky little HP Media Centre in mid-2008 until it began life anew as my in-house 'molehole' Ubuntu-based Webserver Mk 0.
Speaking of searching...
... it wasn't until I remembered the publisher name (Alskog) that I'd foolishly used instead of the photographer's name (Michals) that the wetware between my ears pinpointed the 1975 book in my collection featuring that quantum photographer:
If only I could remember how memory works :-)
Given that...
... I await the delivery, later today, of a Blu-ray of "Effie Gray" (plus a DVD of "Serena" and a BD box set of "Game of Thrones", Season #4) I was fascinated to find this summary of the strange legal wrangling — it seems at least one North American author was feeling entitled to claim copyright protection and ownership of UK history! — that had been keeping the film of Emma Thompson's screenplay off my shelves.
Quod Libet...
... is the name of the extremely versatile-looking music collection manager that Len suggested I try. I've only just (18:03) dared to press "Play" to start listening as until then it was far too busy keeping my CPU on its toes while it scanned the NAS folders stuffed with that subset of my MP3s I've ripped from my CDs. Still to come are many BBC downloads.
That's what I like to see :-)