…but not without angst. I have a passel of meetings every single month, and they just get more and more dense. I had two meetings in the middle of June, and one preaching date at St. John’s Larcom Street. After much searching and comparing notes and the like, HWMBO and I concluded that June 7-26 were the only days we could go to Singapore this summer. So, with reluctance, and profuse apologies, I’ve cancelled the two meetings and the preaching date and booked the tickets on Singapore Airlines.
For my Singaporean friends, we’ll be arriving the afternoon of June 8th (although we will leave noonish on June 7th London time…) and probably be ready to roll on June 9th. I want to take one or two side trips this time–perhaps one to Hong Kong and one to Bangkok, but there is a slight possibility of a Shanghai trip to see our friends Jane and John there. More will emerge as time goes on.
Mainly, however, my problem is websites and Firefox. I had an add-on in Firefox that prevented scripts and the like from untrusted or new sites from being run. However, it’s been a gigantic pain in the arse. Most of the sites I visit are OK sites, with no problem of dodgy Java scripts or the like. So when the little pop-up bar says that a script has been stopped from running, I have to allow it to run to see the website.
So far so good. But on the Singapore Airlines site, there is an extra special script (not Java, but something else) that runs when you press to confirm your credit card details and take the booking. The add-on prevented this from running, and the site came back to me with “there is a problem, call us”. I finally tracked it down, and decided in rage to uninstall the add-on. Then I submitted the page again, and it took, and luckily only sent me one confirmation, not three.
This add-on is one of those things that sounds like a really good idea when you read it on a website, but when you actually install it turns your online life into a series of living hells, each one more frustrating than the last. If you come across No-Script, pass it by. It will kill all the small amount of joy left to you in websurfing if you install it.
You have been warned!