(0915) Cunning plan, laze & gem, is to run some sort of Sunday type music next, there’ll be a filum later, jazz around 1530, we resume hostilities around 1700. (0949)
11. IYE url can be accessed in the sidebar just now (0942)
For those struggling with this … may I suggest clicking on the day in green in the sidebar, then the url? Two clicks. ☺️
10. On the subject of dates being important to individuals
… as well as to an entire country … the dates February 9th to 23rd are important to me … or at least were in the past. That fortnight contains many bdays, inc. my own, which I do not celebrate for various reasons, not least age.
There were best friends of old, two girls in there, plus Valentine’s, plus the Russian sphere Day of Men as it has become, formerly day of the armed forces, on Feb 23rd. Then a gap until March 8th’s Day of Women.
It used to be pretty packed, this fortnight, less so now … Valentine’s has dropped off my list for one. Why not celebrating the bday? No qualms about my age … what is … is … but thing was … it always brought on bad news and there’s some poised right now in ‘25 to descend like a sword of Damocles … it’s uncanny how it always seemed to wait until around now. Last time I had a birthday party was my 49th … I avoid them like the plague … ditto with funerals. Occasionally I used to go to weddings but not now.
By the way, it’s not today, I assure you, not till later in the fortnight.
9. Saw this on Quora
In The Band’s song The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Virgil mentions May 10th but Richmond actually fell on April 2nd. So why was Old Dixie driven down on May 10th?
In my most polite, humble, tactful & respectful way, I’d like to say that, in the lyrics, Virgil was just stating facts, like him & his family starving in the winter of 1865, & that the C.S.A. Capital of Richmond, Virginia had already fallen over a month previous to him mentioning May 10th, which was a most important date to him.
Why, you may ask? Well, I’d like to point out that the 10th of May 1865 was a very important date in the Chronology of the American Civil War because that’s the day the (Southern) Confederate States Government ceased to function or exist due to the capture of its President, Jefferson Davis & the subsequent dissolution of that same Confederate government.
At that point, almost all existing organized resistance ceased & the Southern Cause was Lost. It was seen as the final nail in the coffin, so to speak, so that day proved to be historically most significant,…and therefore, it was “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”
Also, to greatly add to its importance, especially in Virgil’s mind, May 10th, 1865 was also the same day U.S.A. President Andrew Johnson declared the virtual end to organized hostilities between the North & South, formally ending the American Civil War.
At that date, It was also proclaimed that the belligerent rights of the rebels was at an end & that any rebels found fighting after that date were to be viewed as guerrillas, bush-wackers and/or outlaws, to be dealt with accordingly.
It’s been said that almost all the bells in the country were ringing, whether joyfully or sorrowfully, after the war weary people of America read and/or heard those announcements & proclamations, respectively, of the fall of the C.S.A. government & the formal end of the Civil War on May 10th, 1865.”
JH: How ‘bout that eh?
Browsing UHC is like being on a government site. Instead of a URL I can click to go to the source material I can go through a convoluted process to achieve what has been done for decades by one click. This is the sort of progress that seems standard nowadays with many web sites. Everything is so much more diffiult.
I like to think I understand IT having worked in IT at various levels since the 1980s. But I have no idea what you are talking about when you say;
IYE url can be accessed in the sidebar just now (0942)
OR
For those struggling with this … may I suggest clicking on the day in green in the sidebar, then the url? Two clicks.
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JH: I’m putting one up at OoL now and the same problem arises … it’s often, these days, that we can’t be direct in this British cyber climate … have you heard of a Bernie Sp incarcerated, Allison Pearson, many others?
That’s why many pundits must try to bury the link. It’s still accessible (means you can still get to it or there are enough clues) but it means more steps to get there. I agree it’s a pain … we can take that up personally with Starmer or Gordon Brown.
Yes, it used to be much simpler.
The two characters on this planet that I hate. All these years, all the hassle I have had, an entire working life and the only two people I hate are politicians.
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JH: Well yes.