Qaminante: January 2013

Amazonian logic

" Your Amazon.co.uk - Recommended For You - Books

These recommendations are based on items you own and more.

Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook (Weight Watchers (Wiley Publishing))
by Weight Watchers (19 Feb 2013)

Recommended because you purchased Amazon Kindle Touch Lighted Leather Cover, Black

DK Eyewitness Pocket Map and Guide: Paris by Collectif (2 July 2012)
Recommended because you said you owned Theft: A Love Story"

Search Engine Optimization For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) by Peter Kent (5 Nov 2010)
Recommended because you purchased Italian With Michel Thomas Complete Course CD"

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Tips of the slung

Heard on BBC TV recently:
- Journalist reporting from Rome: "Berlio Silvusconi..." (for Silvio Berlusconi)
- Parent interviewed about letting children play outside "it's difficult these days because of all this paedofiddlia we keep hearing about.. "
But the best is still an old one from BBC Radio, enunciated in perfect "Oxford English" and Auntie's most authoritative-sounding tone: "THIS is the British Broadcorping Castoration, .."

More Madrid

"Don't buy Catalan products"

Fashionable shoes

Gran Via (Grassy building on the right)

Palacio de Comunicaciones/ Cibeles Cultural Centre

Another bar

Lost in Translation

What they actually mean is "seating upstairs"

More Toledo

I think they should have used the opening on the left for an ATM!

Trompe-l'oeuil in Toledo

Orange trees in cathedral cloister

Santa Cruz Museum

In the Museo Santa Cruz, Toledo

Don Quixote

I was patiently waiting for this gentleman to get out of the way so I could take a photo...

..but it turned out he wasn't able to, being a statue!

Terrific Toledo

Bloody Blogger #2

And, why doesn't it recognise paragraph separation??? I realise I hardly ever type anything long enough to require it, but again, if it shows up in "edit", why doesn't it show up when you publish it? Again, it shouldn't be necessary to go into html and put in paragraph start and end tags, it should accept normal typing. ENTER: NEW PARAGRAPH! I don't know whether I need to do more, i.e. find an IT course, or less, i.e. give up altogether! But photos look so much better here than on facebook...

Bloody Blogger

This is ridiculous, Blogger is just making things harder and harder for those of us who aren't actually computer programmers. Since they changed the method of uploading photos, it has been getting progressively more difficult to do it. For one thing, I can now only upload photos when in Chrome rather than IE - which, when you click on the photo icon, refuses to show the box for selecting from my own PC, only from "blog" (why would anyone want to do that, unless it means from a different blog?!) or from Picasa, facebook etc.. Since big computer crash, I have been trying Chrome in place of Firefox, which I used to use, don't know whether that would be any better. But now I'm finding it impossible to drag photos up and down, and "orientation" choices permit only left and right, refusing to allow smaller photos to be placed side-by-side. I've managed it before by copying and pasting into empty spaces, then deleting superfluous photos, but now Blogger seems to treat the whole uploaded bunch as a single entity. While I can change their order, I can't now make photos that are small enough to do so, appear side-by-side. I thought I had found a way to do it, after I ventured into html and deleted the "separation" code between the code (beginning and ending with "a" - it won't show actual html code that I wrote here, again even though it shows up in draft!) relating to the 2 photos concerned; but despite seeing the 2 smaller ones below as I wanted, in both "edit" and "preview", when published they appear one below the other! I know it's a free service but it used to work! Why do they have to change for the worse rather than making it better?

To Toledo

Even the station building, dating from 1920, is a protected monument!

More Madrid Windows

Antiques shop!

Madrid windows

Going Mad in Madrid

For culture that is - I must have been to 10 museums or exhibitions in the past week! At most of which, of course, it's not possible to take photographs, and I don't seem to have photographed much of anything else either. But...