- Take a train to tiny speck of a station.
- Trek through the Sussex country-side on roads without sidewalks.
- Step back into the late 18th/early 19th century of railways.
- Hop aboard a choo-choo train.
- Stare at guy in dirty overalls shovelling coal into the firebox of ancient steam locomotive.
- Inhale coal gas fumes in moving train.
- Gawk at adverts for companies, brands and products long since extinct.
- Take shortcut across a meadow that turns out to be grazing lands.
- Watch woolly and shorn sheep gambol.
- Marvel that gambolling doesn't just happen in books.
- Wade through a slushy path to a delightful little patch of green.
- Curse at rain for threatening to deprive a day of its cricket.
- Rejoice at the senior citizen players deciding to play anyway.
- Rejoice even more at the clouds relenting and deciding to let the sun through.
- Get picture taken with one of the finest commentators of all time.
- Laze through a cricket match with a pint of bright Sussex ale.
- Laugh at random commentator who keeps quietly asking spectators and players the names of the batsmen and bowlers.
- Shoot the breeze about cricket obscuridae with genuine lovers of the game.
- Run back through aforementioned meadow to catch taxi and train back home.
- Feel like a character out of a chilled out Enid Blyton novel.
- Crash.
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Gotta get down on Sunday
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Showing the URL protocol in the Firefox address bar
A fair amount of people seem to be using Firefox Aurora.
Unfortunately, the latest Aurora 7.0a2 build (as of tonight - 12th July, 2011) has enabled a 'feature' as part of the Firefox team's efforts to copy Google Chrome's efforts at being different: they have gone and disabled showing the "http://" (the protocol) part of the URL.
I was dreading the day this would come to my beloved Firefox - but fortunately, Firefox retains the ability to make quick, under-the-hood changes using about:config.
Here's how you go about ensuring your URL bar isn't screwed around with:
Unfortunately, the latest Aurora 7.0a2 build (as of tonight - 12th July, 2011) has enabled a 'feature' as part of the Firefox team's efforts to copy Google Chrome's efforts at being different: they have gone and disabled showing the "http://" (the protocol) part of the URL.
I was dreading the day this would come to my beloved Firefox - but fortunately, Firefox retains the ability to make quick, under-the-hood changes using about:config.
Here's how you go about ensuring your URL bar isn't screwed around with:
- Go to about:config
- Find the value called browser.urlbar.trimURLs
- Double-click and toggle it's value to false
Friday 1 July 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)