Got it in three myself today, first time in a while.

Wordle 259 3/6

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The cruellest M*A*S*H episode of all, today. Henry gets to go home, but the writers kill him off.

If you're really bothered there are apps out there that you can use to synthesize a track and upload it to Strava. Happy to help if you want to do that.

Tweeted just 17 hours ago. You just never know what's around the next corner.

Sad news. Heart attack, apparently. Only 52.

Slim's handy guide for adding an image on your computer to a post.

Go to: https://imgbb.com/

Click the START UPLOADING button.

Select the image file you want to use. If it's very large you may wish to click the edit button and resize it.

When you see the 'Upload complete' message, click on the thumbnail. This will take you to a webpage with your image on it.

Right click the image and do "open image in new tab" (this works in Firefox and Chrome, there should be a way to do it in other browsers as well).

From the new tab, copy the URL from the address bar. Then use it to insert the image in the post editor in 'img' tags, like this:



.. hope this is useful.

Wordle 258 4/6

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Once again, a lot of deliberation over the fourth word.

Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 04, 2022, 10:06:36 AMThanks for this Slim but would need a standalone dac linked to a server? I have conventional CD amps speakers. I also like to own the hard copy.

I use my PC, connected to an outboard USB DAC / amp. I have Paradigm monitor speakers connected to that, but I use Sennheiser headphones a lot as well.

I use a Linux utility called Clementine to play music. Organises everything nicely based on the tags.

I do have a standalone CD player but haven't used it for years.

Not only on paper, but not all of them are implicated in the Kremlin's nefarious activities.

Quote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 11:38:27 PM

Quote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 11:13:12 PM

Quote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 11:07:11 PMThis article (from 2019) doesn't seem to suggest that the UKs contributions are anything special compared to others...?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/not-contributing-enough-summary-european-military-and-development-assistance-ukraine-2014

A2 in that piece, an answer to "How much military aid does Ukraine receive from European countries and Canada?" seems to suggest otherwise to me.

I think the entire article suggests that the EUs overall contribution has been just as valuable if not more so.

I think the article suggests that the EU has been a valuable source of humanitarian and developmental assistance, although the US contribution (one country compared to twenty-seven) dwarfs it. I was really referring to assistance germane to Ukraine's defence effort.

Quote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 11:07:11 PMThis article (from 2019) doesn't seem to suggest that the UKs contributions are anything special compared to others...?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/not-contributing-enough-summary-european-military-and-development-assistance-ukraine-2014

A2 in that piece, an answer to "How much military aid does Ukraine receive from European countries and Canada?" seems to suggest otherwise to me.

I bought a double humbucker Tele from Andertons. It had a minor fault. They offered to replace it, I accepted. They promised to have someone from their quality control team look it over before sending it out. Received it; one of the neck bolt screws is buggered and a string tree spacer is missing.

Refund this time. Shame because minus the faults it would suit me to a T.

Quote from: Nick on March 03, 2022, 09:28:26 PMSir Gavin Williamson ... unbelievable

I do understand the negative reaction to this. I think he knows where some of the skeletons are buried. he wouldn't be my first choice.

But for me, the institution that is the Knighthood was devalued for all time when Ed Davey got one. I could even defend Tony Blair getting one, even though I signed the petition to help send him a message. But not that.

Quote from: pxr5 on March 03, 2022, 09:38:05 PM

Quote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 07:29:51 PM

Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on March 03, 2022, 02:07:37 PMI'm trying to buy The Wegde - very expensive waiting tfor a cheap one to come up on ebay.

Also after Demon- Heart of our time cd. I refuse to buy cds for £30

Some CD prices are plain crazy.

It's on melodishop.com at 320kbps MP3 for $0.80 -

http://melodishop.com/the-wedge-2000-remaster-pallas/release_548004.html

FLACs would be nice, but it's got to be better than putting up with vinyl.

Eh, say what? You surprise me Slim. Vinyl is king   

I know some people like the way it sounds. It's a matter of taste I guess

Quote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 10:26:29 PM

Quote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 08:13:16 PMNumber of companies or individuals sanctioned for links to Putin:

🇪🇺 EU 446
🇨🇭 Switzerland 351
🇺🇸 USA 148
🇬🇧 UK 24

Come on Johnson! Get your finger out! Any reason for the stalling?

Still think this question needs answering. With so many Russian oligarchs having made their homes here and invested so much of their ill gotten gains in the UK why has its response been so poor compared to the likes of the US and the EU?

I honestly don't know what the real figures are; my own information was that over 100 people and entities had had their assets frozen by Feb 24th. So this notion of a poor response sounds a bit like spin to me. There's no doubt in any case that we've been pushing for harder sanctions on the international stage. Worth remembering also that the EU is a collection of countries so aggregating their effort, welcome though it may be, into a single score is not really helpful.

It might well be something like wanting to ensure that proper culpability is established, rather than just targeting people for being Russian.

Just read that two Kremlin associates were sanctioned this evening. It's a work in progress, as it must be.