Every week, around 3 different “free” local newspapers get put through our front door letterbox. Every week I spend no more than 60 seconds flicking through the pages - mostly to figure out what the house prices in our area are like - and then they get put into the kitchen to use as a convenient “wrapper” for waste food by-product - e.g. potato and carrot peelings, onion skins etc. before they go into the bin. One of this week’s papers however (Harrow Times) had a very short article in it that caught my attention:
Route 79 Bus Robbery last Friday
This is the first time I’ve ever seen Route79 mentioned in the news. (Click here to view the article on the Harrow Times website.)
This made me think: what would I have done had I been there? The hero in me tells me that I would have taken control of the situation and told the attackers what’s what. On the other hand - the sensible side of me says that I would have made a fast escape and gotten off the bus. This conflict between heart and mind really bugs me.
Anyway - a report from VeryVeryBored in Eastbourne (which is a UK South-coast seaside town mostly populated by retired folks) indicates that the prolific, infamous London graffiti writer “Fume” appears to be heading towards his own retirement?
Posted by jag at February 13, 2004 09:11 PMEven I get the friendly neighbourhood paper. And I too manage to give it just a 120 seconds glance at it.
I would rather pray that I was lucky to not have been in that bus. And it pays to have more commonf sense than to show off the brawn power in robbery situations.
P. C :How do you get the icon for the web page - that says in Yellow - “Route 79” in a London Underground like symbol?
Hi Sat - the little symbol you refer to is called a “favicon”. IE-based browsers pick this up from the web server if it’s there - and uses it to display the little icon in the address bar as well as in your “favourites” menu. (Which is why it’s called a “favicon”). I have noticed that everyone has them these days - so I produced one for my site based upon the design and colour. You basically just create a 16×16 bitmap and save it in Microsoft “ico” format - and give it the name “favicon.ico” - and save it in the same directory as your index.html file.
There’s loads of info re favicons out there - just type it into Google - or try this page: http://www.favicon.co.uk/
Posted by: Jag on February 14, 2004 01:48 PMShows up perfectly well in non-IE browsers such as Mozilla & Mozilla Firefox too ;)
Posted by: Pewari on February 14, 2004 09:20 PMOh - so it works with Mozilla as well? I stand corrected P. Should’ve guessed I suppose: I’ve noticed your pages have had favicon for some time too - and I like yours a lot: a great representation of your site layout!
Posted by: Jag on February 14, 2004 11:08 PMSorry, couldn’t resist a quick Mozilla plug! Firefox in particular is such a nice browser, really don’t know how I ever put up with IE…
Thanks for the compliment - my favicon is mainly due to lack of imagination and artistic skills, though ;)
Posted by: Pewari on February 15, 2004 07:51 PMNow I must try out Firefox …
Posted by: Jag on February 15, 2004 08:19 PM