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It never ceases to astonish me that, in Britain during the mid-1980s, you weren’t strictly stuck with just BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 for your viewing options. While most of the country soldiered on with this scant selection, pockets of progression were sprouting elsewhere. Cable television was slowly unspooling its coaxial veins in certain enclaves of the country, bringing with it a whole new world of programming.Enter Sky Channel. …

Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]

Selection: Blues World (long!) https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/sunao-wada-quintet_blues-world_three-blind-mice_tbm25_1974_ljc.mp3 . . . The selection “Blues World” runs the whole length of Side 2, around 19 minutes. The track is the only contribution on the album by the saxophone player, so you get a full quintet performance. It was easier to just let it run than try to edit a short sample. . . . Track List A1 Now See How You Are (O. Pettiford, …

I have been writing now about urban rivers and the River Kelvin for nearly …checks calender 23 years – Urban Fly Fisher was the first dedicated fly fishing blog to hit the internet and I have met a lot of new friends along the way. As much as this is a personal affair I sometimes get asked how folk can support Urban Fly Fisher and keep it free from shareholders, …

Or, "Please admire our giant, shiny cans!" We did a little photo shoot with all of our bar shakers and tip jars, which are covered with years of stickers. Technically these are communal but in practice our bartenders have their favorites. Can you pick out the bartender by their shaker? How many of these stickers can you identify?

If you strap a magnet to the head of a pigeon, it gets lost.Not just any pigeon of course, a homing pigeon, and not just any magnet ... it has to be small enough that it doesn't physically impede the flight of the pigeon. Finally, whether it gets lost depends upon the weather; the pigeon is much more likely to not return if the weather is dull and cloudy (Walcott …

News: A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous microplastic pollution in water across the globe, a new report suggests. […] The study tested the material in an irrigation ditch, a lake, seawater and a pond, where it removed up to 99.9% of plastic. It addressed 95%-98% of plastic after five …

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson This is a long title for a carefully written and enormously satisfying read. It offers real insights into life in the summer of 1919 for people coming to terms with a world changed forever by a devastating War and an Influenza outbreak that touched so many families. It is particularly strong on the difficulties faced by women with few options …

Russ J Graham wrote on We Are Cult: Rediffusion at 70 ITV turns 70 this year. The network began broadcasting on Thursday 22 September 1955 with a joint evening of programmes by the first two contractors – Associated-Rediffusion, who broadcast on weekdays, and what would soon become ATV, who broadcast on weekends. ATV is the company that usually gets the most attention from us Culters. Not only was it much …

The week's abrupt resignation by Justin Trudeau means more uncertainty and crisis in parts of Canadian copyright law. The post Canadian Copyright: In Light of the Trudeau Resignation appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

I really wish it weren’t so damned important to be on Meta owned platforms to get even an iota of attention for live events…

I’ve come across Primary Constructors, a powerful new feature that simplifies how we define and initialize classes. This feature enables us to declare constructor parameters directly within the class definition, streamlining code and reducing boilerplate

Happy New Year! I hope that 2025 will bring you much inspiration, many adventures and discoveries, and of course, health and success. For all of us, I wish peace and stability. As far as inspiration and new discoveries go, I would like to contribute by offering new perfume classes. Those of you who have already taken several of my courses will find that our new offer builds up on that …

Traditionally, we could only apply regular expression flags such as i (for ignoring case) to all of a regular expression. The ECMAScript feature “Regular Expression Pattern Modifiers” (by Ron Buckton) enables us to apply them to only part of a regular expression. In this blog post we examine how they work and what their use cases are. Regular expression pattern modifiers attributes reached stage 4 in October 2024 and will …

The above image represents the sum total of the progress I made yesterday. It sure doesn’t look like much. It is a grid system for an upcoming widget feature I am working on for Widgetsmith. I’m almost embarrassed to post it as the collective effort for an entire day’s professional work, but that is ultimately the point of this post. I always find coming back from the Christmas break (or …