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Once again, you’re welcome.
You’re welcome. There’s a link about their YouTube clip maker a little way down the page.
YouTube Video Editor
William wrote:I am just thinking of making a video of a sequence of still images to start.
Take a look at their slideshow maker.
William wrote:
An interesting variant of the traditional penny-farthing, but wouldn’t the calyx of the strawberry prevent smooth rotation of the ‘penny’ wheel?
William wrote:I desire a gorgeous strawberry and the blueberry
That clearly gives us phi to seven decimal places, which is 1.6180339. It could be argued that it doesn’t quite work correctly, since the number of letters in ‘strawberry’ is ten rather than zero! Having said that, dialling 0 on an old-fashioned telephone produced ten pulses, not none.
William wrote:Is there a sentence to remember the value of the square root of three.
I was told
I wish I knew
the root of two
At first I thought that was telling me the answer is 1.4143423, which is clearly wrong, since the value to four decimal places is 1.4142. I can see now that we aren’t supposed to count the letters in “the root of two”!
William wrote:and I read of
Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
That’s the first line of a mnemonic in verse. On its own it only gives the value of pi to five decimal places, which is hardly worth it given all the letter-counting you have to do. The comma for the decimal point is a nice touch, but I’d rather just remember 3.14159.
The full version of the verse, yielding twenty decimal places, is as follows:
Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can’t relate
Joe wrote:Of interest have a look at the use of the square root of 3 and 3 phase voltage.
European three phase voltage is 400 VAC. Dividing that by the square root of 3 yields a value of approximately 230 VAC, which is the single phase voltage. Prior to harmonization in 1995, the single phase voltage was 240 VAC in the UK.
William wrote:I posted this link sometime ago, in 2022, in another thread, asking where it took place and Alfred got it right and was, I think, surprised.
I’ve no idea why you thought so, William.
https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=2156#p2156
I don’t think there’s an ‘embed code’ option for this. Although you could use iframes (inline frames) you might find it better to stick to using a hyperlink to your blog. You can customize the Blogger template to make the blog look like your other pages.
William wrote:Bob Wills "San Antonio Rose" Live (circa 1940's)
It seems a little odd that the title on the YouTube page says “(circa 1940’s)”, given that near the beginning and the end of the video it clearly states “Musical shorts from 1940’s”. So why the “circa”?
William wrote:New content only in this thread.
That linked article has a lot of information.
Thank you for the link.
I think what I saw was much shorther and thus much less detailed.
The Wikipedia article does go into an impressive amount of detail, doesn’t it!
KarenPL wrote:It's been a bit of a wait since the end of January
It certainly has, Karen! I imagine the time since then has seemed like much longer than five months.
I hope you enjoy your new home once you’ve settled in, and I hope you don’t find the move too stressful.
When you go to the Help menu within the program and choose ‘About WebPlus...’, do you see exactly the same build number on the splash screen in both installations?
Albert Ross wrote:… but I have developed a touch of vertigo recently and the thought of going up there feels me with dread.
Is it really the thought of going up that feels you with dread, Albert, or the thought of having to come back down again with the ground falling away from you? Whatever, even ‘a touch’ of vertigo is clearly something you’d rather not have to cope with.
June 21st in both the northern and southern hemispheres, so apologies to those in Australia and New Zealand for whom it’s already the next day.
Welcome, Rick! Thanks for joining us here.
Baldricky wrote:I can see that people are using Webplus under Windows 11. So, secondly, if I stay with Webplus would I be able to open my X5 files using, say, X8? i.e. is there an upgrade path between different releases?
I’ve never used Windows 11, so I’m not in a position to comment on that side of things, but (as far as I’m aware) WPX8 should be able to open X5 files without any issues. However, there hasn’t been an upgrade path since Serif stopped selling their ‘legacy’ software products more than five years ago. WebPlus was discontinued way back at the beginning of 2017.
Alfred wrote:I believe the Royal Mint still issues commemorative crown coins. I have a feeling that the last occasion wasn’t terribly long ago.
https://www.royalmint.com/shop/denominations/crown
GB wrote:Crown coins were legal tender, but they were only issued to commemorate special events so were not in general circulation. Probably the most familiar one is the Churchill Crown, which is the only British coin ever to bear the head of anyone other than the reigning monarch.
I believe the Royal Mint still issues commemorative crown coins. I have a feeling that the last occasion wasn’t terribly long ago.
William wrote:An old joke in its period setting.
A man goes into a greengrocer's shop and asks how much is a bag of tomatoes.
The greengocer says that a bag of tomatoes is half a crown.
The man says that at the greengrocer's up the road a bag of tomatoes is two shillings, but they haven't got any at the moment.
"Ah," replies the greengrocer, "when we haven't got any, ours are one and six."
Very good, William!
For those who are unfamiliar with pre-decimal British currency, there were twenty shillings to a pound and twelve pence to a shilling. A crown was five shillings, so half a crown was two shillings and sixpence (usually abbreviated as “two and six”); “one and six” was one shilling less than that.
William wrote:Oh, I had looked for [Adobe Reader in the Microsoft Store] but I did not find it.
Get Adobe Acrobat Reader DC from the Microsoft Store
A bit hard to see because of the boards they had put up around the construction work, but I did indeed find her. Thanks for the pointer!
William wrote:Is that why the 1960s television series All Our Yesterdays had the title that it did?
That seems an entirely reasonable assumption! It should be easy enough to look it up if you feel inclined to check.
The programme each week showed cinema newsreels from 25 years ago that week.
So long ago to me was 25 years ago when I saw those programmes.
Yet now, remembering election night broadcasts from the 1970s ...
It always feels slightly alarming that I can remember things from forty or fifty years ago more easily than I can remember things from forty or fifty minutes ago! Having said that, I don’t actually remember much detail from old election broadcasts. I do, however, remember the flavour of them, as so neatly encapsulated in a Monty Python sketch:
Interviewee: Can I just say this is the first time I’ve been on television?
Interviewer: I’m sorry, there isn’t time.
William wrote:tucked away in the corner, hidden by a pillar
That might go quite a long way towards explaining why I couldn’t see her! 
pberk wrote:Tomorrow -- and tomorrow ---
… and tomorrow,
creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
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