951

(3 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

GB wrote:

Are you saying that you do.

Well, I don't have a collection book or anything like that, but I often make a point of not throwing them away, particularly if the paper is nice and/or the typography is nice. A signature on a compliments slip is also good.

I have only seen the collecting of compliments slips written about by someone other than me in an article in a printing magazine in the 1960s.

Collecting compliments slips got mentioned in a chapter of my first novel.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_064.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm

While writing this post I went and read the story from Chapter 51. It is over four years since I completed writing the novel, started in 2016.

William

952

(27 replies, posted in General Discussion)

A news story.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p … c-30893829

Yet what particularly interests me is this at the end of the article.

* This article was crafted with the help of an AI tool, which speeds up The Mirror's editorial research. An editor reviewed this content before it was published. You can report any errors to
webhomepage@mirror.co.uk

What does that mean please?

Please discuss if you so choose.

William

953

(3 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

Do you collect the compliments slips that you receive?

These days compliments slips are often the width of an A4 sheet of paper and one third of the height of an A4
sheet of paper.

William

I saw the following, by chance.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/th … r-AA1eGhJ6

William

955

(0 replies, posted in History & Geography)

Yesterday this video was advertised to me on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRR35KGuWJI

Thus far I have watched the first seventeen minutes of it.

I find it excellent, thus far there appear to be no edits, just hot-rolled as recorded.

San Gimignano features in the following forum thread.

https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=15128

San Gimignano also features in the following chapters of my first novel.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_004.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_012.pdf

William

Fixed it.

The phone was telling me there was an unread recorded message waiting to be read.

https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Sta … -p/2151363

William

It is a BT Decor 2600 telephone that has worked fine for quite a time, but has started doing this today.

William

958

(0 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

A serendipitous discovery.

I was checking whether there have recently been any updates on the wikipedia page about telesoftware.

I remembered an idea of mine, from late seventies (so pre-web) of a database from which broadcasters throughout the world could access to then broadcast in their own lands.

I called the database StarDisc. I produced a logo using metal type printed on an Adana 8 x 5 printing machine

It had STAR and DISC on a line, with letters in a similar style to ASCII art, but using metal type, stars for the Word STAR and filled discs for the word DISC.

Thinking it unlikely, I nevertheless searched to check if there was any reference to StarDisc on the web.

Not connected to my idea, but I found the following.

https://stardisc.org/

William


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959

(4 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

The format could be used for any Unicode character, not just emoji.

William

960

(4 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Hi Joe

At the most basic level by writing U+WXYZ where W, X, Y, and Z here represent any of the sixteen hexadecimal characters, that is each of W, X, Y, and Z as expressed here would be one of 1, 2, .. 9, A .. F as appropriate for the particular Unicode character.

William

961

(58 replies, posted in General Discussion)

BZN - Poor Old Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xn1XJTzw4

William

962

(58 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Well-rehearsed choreography from Gitti and Erika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDHc4-Cr_kc

William

963

(4 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Some readers may remember the following from over five years ago.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/s … _emoji.htm

I imagine a telegraph office in the Old West with a lady sat with rolls of printed emoji symbols, cutting them off the rolls as needed, some in soft colours, and pasting them within the telegrapher's handwritten message in the gaps he has left for the purpose.

I have now thought of a potentially useful extension to Morse code.

Suppose that there is a specific, at present unused, Morse code sequence.

Suppose that after each use of that specific new Morse code character one can have four, six or seven already existing Morse Code characters, that together indicate a specific Unicode character.

For plane 0, four characters to give the hexadecimal sequence of the Unicode character.

For planes 1 to 15, six characters, X followed by five characters to give the hexadecimal sequence of the Unicode character.

For plane 16, seven characters, V followed by six characters to give the hexadecimal sequence of the Unicode character.

This could allow access to any Unicode character that now encoded and those yet to become encoded too.

William

46 replies and 995 views, but the thread has gone peculiar and indeed somewhat silly.

William

Bore da,
You've travelled far.

William

Most posts by me,
Mais c'est la vie.

William

31 replies and 668 views.

Most posts by me,
Mais c'est la vie.

William

968

(11 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

https://i.postimg.cc/JGVhDHcm/good-day-in-Dutch.png

Please click to enlarge.

William

30 replies and 597 views.

William

25 replies and 517 views and onto page 2 of the thread.

A good discussion, go, go ,go!

William

971

(19 replies, posted in History & Geography)

As a military march

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgkfvVirkaI

William

972

(58 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Radetzky March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ROjMVHIELk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToFOzD0M8E

William

23 replies and 444 views now.

William

The discussion has got under way.

8 replies and 303 views at present.

William

975

(58 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Old Spinning Wheel - a jazz version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8z8KWdDvNg

William