In-car entertainment

When I collected my teenage daughter and some of her friends from Frankie and Benny's the other evening I refused Helen's request to change the in-car entertainment to Radio Aire. Instead I forced them all to endure the CD which I had been enjoying on my way into Wakefield: Close to the Edge. We were into the seventeenth minute and the girls thought there must surely be some malfunction of the CD player for the display to regiser 16:43, and there were only three tracks on the CD! Well, I thought we needed a break from Beyonce....

Comments

Scout website review

Some notes gathered whilst researching options.... What do we want to change? meeting dates (not times/locations) on "front page"? Essential website elements hosting domain name CMS (Content Management System) Alternative solution - what do other scout groups use? Scouting Themes 4 WordPress https://www.iscout4wordpress.org.uk/ - Scouting Themes 4 WordPress - free template system designed by and used by scout groups - " This website exists to provide WordPress themes designed within the brand guidelines of the Scout Association for use by all Scouting organisations in the UK, from individual sections, to groups, districts and counties/areas. The aim of these themes is to allow Scouting webmasters to focus on the content of their site and on Scouting in general rather than on trying to design a website theme ." Hosting is EXTRA! - maybe use DreamHost - https://www.dreamhost.com/wordpress/ - £50 p.a. (?) Example - https://www.9thnort

Content is everything

" The hard bit of creating a website is writing lots of interesting content that people will want to read. Putting up a website is not difficult but keeping it up to date with interesting content certainly is. " Wise words from an EScouts member: https://www.escouts.org.uk/forum/threads/29131-Websites-for-complete-beginners? p=415461&viewfull=1#post415461

Emailing the right people

Use of the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) option. When you put a person's email addresses in the BCC: rather than the CC: window, none of the recipients can see the addresses of the other email recipients. New email users often rely too much on the TO: because it is the default way of sending emails. That is fine as long as you are writing to just one person or a few family members. But if you are sending mail out to a diverse group of people, confusing BCC: and CC: raises some serious privacy and security concerns. It takes just one spammer to get a hold of the email and immediately everyone on your email list gets spammed. Even if the honesty of the group isn't in question, many email programs are setup to automatically add to the address books any incoming email addresses. That means that some people in the group will inadvertently have added the entire list to their address book, and as a result, if one of their computers is infected with "Zombie" malware and silen

Closer To The Edge

Search This Blog