willedoo

Crikey, this AFL sounds like a rough sport.

I saw something online that I thought was a good idea for anyone with a fluffy cat. A bloke recycles all the hair he combs from his cat and hangs it outside in a basket so birds can take it away to use in nest building. I remember when my old cow was still alive, the ravens used to pinch hair from her tail but the cat hair would be a lot easier.

The Mythical Royal Australian Army made an appearance at the Anzac Day march in Brisbane, via the ABC presenter covering the march. I guess the serving RAN commander sitting beside him thought it best not to pick him up on it on air.

I know who Pecker is, but I was wondering if that banner on the screen grab is legit or someone taking the p*ss.

I wonder whether this screen grab I saw posted somewhere is genuine or shopped.

It wouldn't be necessary if Marty's wish came true. That would get rid of Donald and Vladimir as well.

After submitting the online form request to SBS on demand, I got a reply back from them. They said they don't have any facility on their site for updating email addresses and could set it up manually by corresponding with them by email and supplying details. I politely told them no thanks and opened up a new account. That's the easiest way with sites where past history with the old account is not important.

I logged in to inyourfacebook this morning with the new email address. It's a real pleasure to type an eight letter domain name after years of using the fifteen letter one.

I try to keep it simple. I was born, am currently living and one day I'll die. That's it, end of story. No different from a bird or lizard.

I haven't found many help options on the ones so far but I'll keep an eye out for it.

When it comes to editing an email address associated with an account, what stands out to me is the huge difference between sites. Some are so simple to do, while others make it extremely hard and in some cases impossible, requiring a new account to be registered. I don't know why some low risk sites make the process so difficult. It's not like I'm applying to join the CIA or anything; all I want to do is change a simple email address. You would think that web designers would have the sense to realise that changing an email addresses is a common thing. I've successfully done nine accounts since I started four hours ago. I think I'll just have to chip away at it bit by bit. Lucky I haven't got any hair to tear out, otherwise it would be coming out in handfuls. On the positive side, as I go through the little black book of account login details and passwords, I'm culling heaps I haven't used for years.

An hour later and I've been able to successfully change the email address in on more account making four in total. Some companies and websites make it extremely difficult to edit your email address. For TV streaming, 9Now was easy. They sent a text message code and it went like clockwork. SBS On Demand on the other hand require you to fill out an online form and submit a request, then wait for who knows how long to get a reply. In the account management section, SBS has the email address locked so you can't edit it. I think it will be easier to just register another account. I've got lots more accounts to change over, so I can see how this is going to pan out. Any accounts that don't have a need of previous history, it would be easier and quicker just to register fresh accounts.

My internet service provider for many years has been Internode. Late last year they stopped providing free email service and addresses. They gave customers the option to use another email provider or migrate their existing Internode addresses to The Messaging Company, an Australian email mob. Part of that deal was that it would be free until sometime this year. After that date, migrated customers will have to either find another provider or start paying TMC for the email service. I haven't seen anything about TMC's performance that would make you feel like paying them, so I'm in the process of changing over to the free Google owned one. What a task that is. I've got a big list of accounts I hold which have the Internode address tied to them. Most of them require the email address as part of the login procedure. Some companies don't have an option to edit the email address, so the only option with those is to set up a completely new account. With others, the changeover procedure takes a fair bit of time. You have to log in to your account then play a game of hide and seek to try to find the right settings. Some sites are so un-intuitave that the quickest way is to google how to find the settings. Once you finally track the settings down, you change the email address and wait for them to send a confirmation email to the new address. With Thunderbird, the quickest way to receive that email is to close Thunderbird then reopen it, in which case it will try to download any new emails. Once you get the confirmation email you might have to only click on a link in the email to verify it. With other sites, you have to copy a code, return to the browser page where you were changing address, then paste the code in a box and proceed from there. So far, it's three down and a squillion accounts to go. It's going to be a long week. I won't miss the Internode addresses as they have a subdomain in the address added to an already long name. The length of it makes it a pain when you are continually typing it to log in somewhere. Trying to read out the address to someone over the phone is time wasting unless you spell it out in the phonetic alphabet. Internode was taken over by TPG some time back, and sometime this year they will cease to exist and we will be direct TPG customers.

These American woodcocks are odd birds. They have some good moves when they walk, but it must take them a long time to get anywhere. There's lots of video of them on youtube set to music, like the second clip.

I haven't seen onetrack on the forum for a while, since the Friday before last. Hope he's ok; he's normally on here fairly regularly.

It's good to see the Ukraine aid bill finally pass in the U.S. House of Representatives. It now has to go back to the Senate to pass there then get signed by the President. The Democrats have a majority in the Senate so that should pass ok. No Democrats voted against it in the lower house. The majority of Republicans voted against it, 100 for and 112 against the bill. It's good to see House Speaker Mike Johnson finally allow a vote on the bill after months of obstruction by the Republicans. It's been a complete turnaround for him.

Video of a sound effect artist:

Ukraine used to have 43 Tu-22M3s and 17 Tu-22M2s. They gave them up along with 423 Kh-22 cruise missiles back in the 1990's via the American led threat reduction programme. It's ironic that all these years later their neighbour is using that very same missile and aircraft type to destroy Ukraine.

I read somewhere that the two pilots ejected. Only problem with that is that it has a crew of four. There's a navigator and wizzo in the back.

A good one for spenaroo's watch thread.

Peter, that link doesn't work. Maybe copying missed a bit of the URL.

There's a good video clip on Xcrement of the Tu-22M3 coming down in a flat spin with it's arse on fire. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1781204526919303276

The Ukrainians will be happy after bringing down one of the big bombers.

The first photo is this Ilyushin 76 crash from a month ago.

That's a bit like this old one: Printers are like women. You don't take much notice of them until they go down on you.