December the 3rd (ahem)
Anne P is busy preparing...
Eddie Mair | 10:30 UK time, Monday, 4 December 2006
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Anne P - I do hope your family and friends don't read this blog or your Christmas presents will be a secret no longer ....
I recognise that CD and I claim my prize! Mine is playing as I write and it beats Noddy Holder and his Christmas Retail Soundtrack cohorts into a Santa Hat! Thanks again Annasee.
Goodness me Anne! I haven't even started yet. Well done!
Anne P - I see Annasee's CD among the gifts. Surely that's a present to yourself - you couldn't give that away!
As an experiment I'm going to try to post this - But I'm not Eddie.
Or are you?
The only member of the family who knows I'm a frogger is husband, who has not yet been tempted to join, and in any case he has only to walk into the room to see the accumulating pile of knitting. The question is will I get it all finished in time?
Well there you go, BigSis! See how easy it'd be to pretend to be somebody else? I think those of us who were were right to be suspicious . . .
xx
LadyPen
And before anybody points the finger - it WASN'T me.
Lissa/Richard Blogwizard
Can the blogwizard/moderators not ensure that a name once tied to an email address cannot be used by someone else?
This would not prevent people using more than one name per email address, but it would reduce the chances of (im)personation. It could still be done by setting up additional email addresses, but that would then smack of deliberate subversion.
Lissa,Not sure to just what lengths we need to go to prevent misbehaviour, is there a lot of it going on that we are unaware of?
Eddie - you're messing with our minds now. Stop it at once. Either be who you are, or stop being who you're not or just... look, just stop it, ok? Some of us are terminally confused already & can't cope with any more.
I've had an idea. You know how flat & boring life will be when we've done your Tuesday photo extravaganza - tomorrow in fact - & how there will be nothing left to look forward to after that? What about a Round Robin competition? Not real ones, I hasten to add, but listeners could compose them on behalf of anyone they liked. Not necessarily 100% seriously. Just a witty summary of the year's events from someone else's perspective, suitable for public consumption.
Go on - you know you want to.
LadyPen, RJD, and others:
I'm responsible for all the experimental postings made today (up to the time of posting this) to test out the 'security' of Eddie's name. But I've made it clear it wasn't him.
I've also emailed to the programme (in addition to posting on the current thread - December 4th, the Newtown Santas) to alert Lissa to the problem in the hope they may be able to set up some filter, or whatever.
In some ways, perhaps, it was as well for this to be thoroughly 'aired' as we have.
Could all work out for the best in the end.
No, ±õ’m not Eddie Mair!
(yes, Doc here)
(Please imagine French accent)
I write from la belle France to say:
"Je ne suis pas Eddie Mair"
I'm not Eddie Mair either
(FFred)
Now the odd thing about (5) is, that it's NOT me. Now that IS weird, and wierd. And we're going to fix it!
It ain't what it used to be,
Ain't what it used to be,
Ain't what it used to be ..............
And it ain't Eddie Mair!
Watch it, you guys, just watch it!
That, Eddie, is very good news ..... From now on we'll all be able to trust you (I think?)
Lord Mair (16)
It wasn't weird, it was me.
And I am on bended knee to apologise for 'borrowing' your name to check the security out. Which was important.
We're all watching your back, you know!
Gotta watch his back, 'cause he's so far ahead of us!
ed
AAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Guess what! Now I've got another auto text entry for my name. I should have thought.... Now as well as my "real" name, & the everpresent "a", I'm stuck with "Aide de-Mer"
Oh G*d, I'm going to have to sort this out now.
Apparently, it's because we use Firefox (cute warm & fluffy as it is) according to the SO I can get rid of the unwanted selections, but will lose all the other ones in use. All the shortcuts. For everything.
Maybe I'll let him do it......(sound of humble pie being eaten)
OR maybe I'll just change my name to Aide de Mer. Oh no, hang on that was where we came in, wasn't it. Sigh. I think I'd better get on with some work for a change.
Forgot to say - amid the trauma - thanks for the wonderful product placement Anne P. Do you want to be my publicist?
Annasee (23)
I did wonder after I'd taken it whether they would regard it as product placement and so not use it! But then perhaps the moderators don't actually read the blog or remember any of us.
I am of course dead chuffed to have had it selected for the advent calendar.
Memo to self re tomorrow: where did I put the camera ?
Annasee (22)
I've just taken a trip in the time machine to retrieve this from "Christmas is coming". I know nothing of Firefox (nor even silver-fox) so it may not be helpful.
"Annasee (86)
next time I type "a" in the name box the little blighter is back again.
H'mm.
If you type in "A" rather than "a" does that make any diference? If not, try "an" or "An" to see if it will force it. Failing that, remove the tick from the "Remember me?" box and see if it will reset itself after you've re-completed the boxes. "Copy" your website address before unticking so you can paste it to save retyping it after re-ticking. (I'm sure you'd worked that out for yourself.)
If none of those works, I have a hammer ... "
Hmmm, looks like the SO has fixed the auto text without telling me. Just asked him how. "Secret" Huh. Well this is the last time I ever put any other name in the contact box apart from my "own".
Rufus - thanks for your ideas - I haven't been using the Remember me box for ages - it doesn't seem to make any difference. Our computer remembers me (only too well, alas) & I've just got used to that. What is the remember Me supposed to do?
Note how excited I am to be able to use italics! I notice Valery is making the most of them too. Way to go, Valery ! (not a phrase I ever use in real life, but it just seemed suitable for a small triumph such as discovering italics!)
It's the little things that count, Annasee! Hee, hee.
Anne P, put me on your list please! Soo organised and so lovely, I am going to recruit someone to my family who can knit now!
Hey Sparlres
What have you done with your K?
Re. Bromide and cheese. I heard on TODAY that the EEC is banning Bromide in the production of cheese. I recall that Bromide was used in tea in Service Training camps to supress Lads natural desires. I,m a cheese lover. Has anyone else been having trouble with their 'Woodys'.