Over the last few days I've had a strange thing happen to inputs from my laptop's keyboard inputs.

It seems to happen when I've been inputting text on forums (including this one) and in my daily word games. The letters displayed bear no relationship whatsoever to what I've typed. I have discovered though that if I move to an Excel spreadsheet I have open the problem doesn't occur there, and then when I go back to the website I had been experiencing the issue it has corrected itself, as though by inputting spreadsheet text teaches the keyboard to work properly again.

Any suggestions as to what might be happening? I haven't bothered doing a restart as the solution I've discovered is so easy to do compared to closing down completely and then I don't know if this infrequent issue has actually gone away for what may be some hours.

Intriguing way in which Afghani girls can still get some education.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67017945


"A BBC programme for children barred from schools in Afghanistan has been described as a "learning lifeline" by the United Nations.
The show is being used in secret school lessons, the BBC has learned.
Its name, Dars, means lesson in Afghanistan's official languages of Dari and Pashto.
The ruling Taliban prohibits girls from receiving secondary or higher education.
On the day she was told she could no longer come to work at school, Afsana, who is a teacher, lost her purpose in life.
The 28-year-old worked at a secondary school for girls in eastern Afghanistan. Now, like some other former teachers in the country, she has set up a secret school.

Twenty-five students, all girls, between the ages of 12 and 18, gather in her basement. The only tools she has are a whiteboard, a phone and the BBC Dars programme.
With no signal in her makeshift classroom, Afsana downloads short videos of the show to play to the students, who then write her a summary of what they have seen. "My students watch with interest and passion," she says. "Their hopes have been raised and they are still dreaming for the future."
The show, which has just launched its second series on TV, online and radio, is hosted by BBC female journalists who themselves fled Kabul more than two years ago, after the Taliban's return to power.
Any form of learning "provides safety hope and opportunity", says Yasmine Sherif, the executive director of Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations global fund for the education of children in crisis".

And NZ has said a clear and solid NO to a woke, divisive and damaging government.
The last 6 years has been hard, and change will take time, bit let's all be positive.

Woke up this morning to two of my PCs having a serious hissy fit...

First one was an i7-7700K intel box that I use for a bit of Monero mining and as a STORJ node.  It just missed out on Windows 11 upgrade via official channels, so I upgraded it via other means to Win11 a couple of months back.  This morning it was stuck in a windows update boot loop... I seem to remember MS saying something about this with unofficial upgrades.  Anyway that one is now reinstalled back to Windows 10 where it can stay for a bit longer....

The other one, the power supply had died, swapped out and back up and running...

Bad luck I guess, joys of tech...

That lot over the dtich vote today on whether or not  to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament. Good luck, Australia.




https://www.9news.com.au/national/voice-...411eb9df76


"But the proportion of undecided voters, believed to be around the 10-15 per cent range but as high as a quarter in some surveys, has the Yes camp hopeful the referendum will succeed.
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Speaking yesterday, Albanese urged Australians to embrace what he described as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians.


"This is not my campaign. This is a request from the First Australians made in 2017 at Uluru, after years of consultation with thousands of Indigenous Australians across hundreds of meetings, across many years," he said.[i]Today[/i]."

I'm going out on a limb and calling it a Left victory by the skin of all their teeth.

What say you fellow citizens?

Hi Peps,
Did this years ago but can't see how to do it with W11
Help appreciated
Colin

If a NZF or ACT MP gets a deputy PM position.
Very likely scenario given the way polls are heading.
Let's hold him to his word.

There was a story on the news tonight about cameras in the toilets. But why does TVNZ have to copy the┬á├Øanks? Why do they call it a bathroom? It is not a bathroom, it is a toilet! They are talking more like the Yanks every day.
Let's keep it Kiwi. Call it like what it Is - a toilet.

Bugger.




https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ce...es-aged-53


"Stand-up comedian, writer and actor Cal Wilson has died, aged 53, her agency said on Wednesday.