Worth waiting for!

I’ll definitely be having a good look at the online archive of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament, from the first surviving act of 1235 to its dissolution in 1707.

It’s been a huge amount of work (11 years), and looks very impressive! I used to like reading the 19th century reprints of the Acts which this work replaces, so this should make things a bit easier!

Even found a few mentions of my family name…and attempts by a widow sharing my surname to be paid the money her husband was due fromt he Army, back in 1649. She got it 😉

Records of the Parliament of Scotland to 1707.

Turning off Beacon

So, as I continue to get pop-ups on Kongregate asking if it’s ok to publish what games I’m playing in my Facebook feed, I decided to try and find out how to turn off Beacon…which I didn’t even know was turned on. It seems to only be doing this because Kongregate is an American partner site.

It’s in there, in the Privacy settings. If you want to do this too, go to:

Privacy >
News Feed and Mini Feeds >
Actions on External Websites >
Tick box marked “Don’t allow any websites to send stories to my profile.”

Save changes.

I did NOT like that!

So, I was sent a link to a fun game, Chronotron.
I was playing away, getting past versions of myself to work out puzzles, when a little pop-up appeared on the bottom right of my screen, saying that Beacon was telling my friends I was playing Chronotron on Kongregate, before sliding back into obscurity.
So I went over to Facebook, and sure enough, that information had appeared in my profile!

This is my first encounter with Beacon, and needless to say, I don’t think my friends want to know when I’m playing a game on a totally separate website, so I disabled it immediately.
But I didn’t know that Beacon was activated, or affected UK users? Maybe I need to find out more about it, as who knows what else it’ll be informing my friends I’m doing on other websites!