musing at lunch

Here I'm sat quietly having lunch at work while realising that I really have so much "Internet Rubbish"

There must be hundreds of websites that I have visited once or twice, and have never returned to again.

And then, occasionally an email reminder will appear and, instead of visiting the site again and cancelling my profile, I will just cancel the email subscription " just in case"

That said, I guess I'm just one of millions that apply the same process

Thought over, Back to Lunch!!

Am confused now.
Moto3, brilliant race.
Now the Moto2 is just confusing.
The lights go. 7 riders apparently Jun the start.
They get penalised.
The race goes on and then, with just a few laps left to go, the authorities penalise 2 more.
No wonder the riders looked puzzled

Can you really clog up and electronic filing System?

Can you really clog up and electronic filing System?

I think that I might just have done that. For quite a few years now I have had an account with a site/app called Evernote. As a data collection”tool” it works pretty well for me. Am information you find can be selected, highlighted and copied to a note in a notebook.
And a notebook with its own name.
Brilliant.
And then I found that you could have a Clipping “attachment” that you could add to both Chrome and Safari browsers.
Data collection has now gone from “once in a while” to “clip this”. “Clip that”
On and on.
Not just once in a while, but four, five, TEN times a visit.
Multiple information sources, saved to one location. And all at your finger tips.
First thing I only realised after a few months of this.
Even though I had created quite a few note books, I hadn’t realised that I would have to steer my notes in the right way. So I had 10+ notebooks in use, but 9 without any information in them at all. And then one or two electronic notebooks absolutely chocked full of mixed up, un-complied snippets.
But, worse than that was the fact that I was saving information multiples.
That is I would find the same information time and time again.
And then save it - AGAIN!
Pointless ...

A Charity Trip, for an Old School Friend

Any help would be much appreciated. This an old school friend (Mike Oakley), who is riding from London to Brighton, for Papworth Hospital for their kind treatment of another old school friend (Gill Thomas).
https://www.justgiving.com/Mike-Oakley4/

Archery, more please

https://www.change.org/p/hrh-prince-imran-include-archery-as-a-core-sport-in-the-commonwealth-games/u/15115942?tk=yabJr15o6328L6sXj0VIwORiaAQgrgiWidBh_HQtGVM&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email

As many of those who know me know, I (we) have been keen on Archery for many years. Even with the problems, and the procrastinations of the last few years, I am still a big “Bow and Arrows” fan.

The Olympics has an Archery section (although a spot for the “Dark siders” wouldn’t go miss), and this is an online petition to make sure that Archery is also a staple of the Commonwealth Games.

Anyone interested in helping??

Sad, so very sad

I have, as the family knows to their endless boredom, watched Channel 4's Time Team for many years. History and "remote access" archaeology has always been of interest, even when they got to the Skulls and bones of those who died hundreds of years ago. Sad to say, in that kind of situation that the recovered buckles and broaches are of more interest, in some way, than the remains of those people that used them.

That interest has now been transferred to Channel 5's latest history show - "WWII, Battlefield Recovery". The three episodes of the series so far, have been centred on various of the Eastern Front, with tonight's dig centred on a pit to the rear of a Polish Village Grave Yard.

And, because it is a TV "entertainment" show, the investigation of the battlefield, the materials used and the recovery of the remains of the Military combatants involved is interesting, and, although slightly sad, it is what it is.

But then, at the bottom of this improvised pit, the digging team then found who turned out to be a German female factory worker.

Apparently shot, at close range, between the eyes.

The episode is getting darker, but that was kind of understandable. As the investigation had established that this part of the WWII timeline is concentrated on those final weeks, and days when the Red Army was close to finally pushing a retreating Wermacht back over the German border in 1944/45. It was also becoming the story of the attacking Russians, and the native Poles, having their revenge for the horrors inflicted on them by those occupying Germans. The darker side of human nature rearing its ugly head yet again. Never what is wanted. Expected. But nor was it an isolated event. 

But, as the episode came to its scheduled end, you knew something was amiss. Hardened diggers, in tears, standing at the edge of the pit. 

The camera focused in on the artefacts that were being dug up. 

Initially it looked like a woollen shawl. Maybe a cardigan? 

And then you realised it was too small.

Then small shoes/socks and a rubber nappy cover.

Then they weren't the only ones with tears in their eyes.

Haven’t written a post in ages

It just goes to show how life travels on without any regard to anything else that you try to rememeber to do.

Having once being a fairly consistant blogger, on various mediums and platforms, the whole thing has now, pretty much, come to a grinding halt.

Such a shame.