James Perrett

I'm always worried when the package just says "from foreign sources". I realise that I've been getting slack and not always checking where things really come from.

I've been to more pubs in the last year than in previous years but they've all been pubs with live music. I've found a great social circle at the local open mics and showcase gigs.

It has happened a couple of times recently on their mobile website too. (I avoid dedicated apps wherever possible)

When we started HE Hampshire had some exam funding but they stopped just as we reached GCSEs. At least we can spread exams over a few years which makes the cost easier to bear.

Sparsholt (the agricultural college) had a very attractive 14-16 programme too but that was stopped - as was one run by HSDC in Havant. I think some may be restarting but, as we've gone our own route, I haven't been following too closely.

We used carbon fibre tubes in Autosub 2 and later Autosub 3. These vehicles undertook numerous dives from 1999 onwards.

However, our early testing showed the delamination problem at high pressure so we had to reduce our tubes' depth rating from 4000m down to 1600m.

Oceangate's Titan whistleblower: 'People were sold a lie' A former Oceangate employee says he told US authorities about safety concerns with the sub before it imploded.

This is an interesting article about what went wrong at Oceangate but the BBC keep saying things like "No deep diving sub had been made out of this material before" in all their reports. That's not true.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Which will almost certainly not be made in America if the US continues on its current trajectory.

That's a very interesting article and shows that we are probably missing out in Hampshire as most of the local 14-16 provision seemed to disappear a few years ago.

Of course Ambisonics are still around with a number of manufacturers making microphones with capsules in a tetrahedral array. The result is usually transcoded into 5.1 surround sound or binaural.

I saw Fabio and Grooverider interviewed in some local free magazine surrounded by other articles and adverts for care homes.

And today I'm transferring some old demo tapes for one of the writers of that first song on MTV.

My son asked me if we would see anything in the UK? I had assumed that the route would be too tortuous to see anything here but would there be a very small effect?

An interesting article about recent song lengths - but I'd love to see similar data from earlier eras when two and a half minutes was often considered the ideal pop song length.

I saw this towards the end of my last job where we had recently employed a number of ex-navy people to run the department. Any time there was a problem we had to have a set procedure to deal with that problem - no matter how rare the problem was. Our pre-launch checklists became very convoluted.

I used Entitled.to and found that I could claim council tax benefits. I took one look at the form and gave up. They want so much documentation on paper, which I don't have because everything is online.

Unlike most other music platforms, YouTube is easy to use - even for the most technophobic. Our music gains far more plays there.

IOC data for Hawaii showing waves arriving at Hawaii over a period of hours, live at 30th July 06:53 UTC.

Tsunamis in Hawaii. Heights in metres. Notice how the first wave wasn't the biggest. Real time data at www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org/station.php?...

And before that, in 2009, we used the Palmer to launch the Autosub AUV on its record breaking journey 60km into the Pine Island Glacier cavity which gave scientists a whole new understanding of the water circulation and the shape of the ice shelf.

Most of the time I'm just going to open mics. I thought I might do a few on my own but the standard around here is so high that I don't dare, so I'll either jam with people on percussion or play them with Tegan when she's around. I hope to do some showcase gigs when I get more confident with guitar.

And I've even met up with one of the singers on one of my favourite 80s records - you never know who you'll bump into around here!

One fairly decent venue owner offered me a gig on the spot before they had even heard anything (though they knew me from other projects I had been involved with), while other people who have seen us play have recommended us to a decent promoter.

Over the last year I've been deliberately getting out and about looking for gigs and getting to know who's who locally. I've got to know all kinds of new people and made all kinds of contacts as well as reconnecting with music people from my past.

It is probably worth thinking about who you know already. Are you going to be playing live to promote this release? How often do you go to gigs in a similar style and talk to the performers? Effective networking will probably get you much further.

Interesting - and it kind of confirms my thoughts that paid for music promotion open to all and sundry isn't worth it. The best kind of promotion happens when someone in the business understands your music and knows where to place it.

If this was to go ahead then it would greatly limit the science that could be done around Antarctica. We launched Autosub from the NBP for its 60km journey under the Pine Island Glacier.

Interesting comment about air to air heat pumps needing ducting. I've not heard that before. I still have underfloor ducting here from an old hot air system - I wonder if that would work?

So, someone suggested using ChatGPT to help track down the artist of an ex libris bookplate... a cautionary tale...!

I wish I'd known more about pensions and the non obvious ways they can save tax. I also wish I'd known more about creating my own DC pension in addition to my employer's DB pension so that I could retire early with the equivalent of a full pension.

Test Card F - Wikipedia

Show her the real one - and then explain the reason for each element in the pattern. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Ca...