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A matter of note, though slightly off-topic: on screen the official TPF red is 60%:0:0 = #990000; when printed it is Pantone 704.

Note to self: phpbb3 bug report entitled Pagination: two requests, one trivial, one non-trivial.

So the plan was that I go to the gym in the afternoon. Ahead of which a Offley Boa Vista 1995 was decanted, at DRT’s suggestion, to liven the evening, with some saved for tomorrow. Then a friend of the wife’s came round, with my mother-in-law. I had to offer them a glass. And it would have been rude...

The blackness of the port shows fairly well in the picture.

The cork disintegrated.

A 1995 Offley Boa Vista was opened, following a suggestion from somebody signing himself Derek (Cofi Anan) Turnbull that I shuld drink port. The bottle (not the recommendation) cost $26+tax from Warehouse Wines & Spirits®, 735 Broadway at Astor Place, New York, NY 10003, tel +1 212 982 7770; ...

No. A well-kept pint of London Pride is a joy. TTL has a slight advantage, but both are excellent ales. TTL = F66, agreed, but FLP = F77.

FYI, main colours are: #990000 = ThePortForum red ;[/color] #ebcdcd = Faint ThePortForum red ;[/color] #cc9933 = ThePortForum tawny ;[/color] #eeddbb = Faint ThePortForum tawny ;[/color] #cccccc = Grey .[/color] #990000 = ThePortForum red ;[/color] #ebcdcd = Faint ThePortForum red ;[/color] #cc9933 ...

The colour alternation had already been changed — neither is white. Can we see how that looks before committing to new colours. I’m also unhappy with the horizontal line after the signature — it tricks the eye into believing that the signature belongs to the next post. One possibility would be to ...

SushiNorth: thank you for volunteering to write the code. It is eagerly awaited.

Also, there has been general disapproval of the tawny box on the front page; it will become red.

OK. Comments noted. When the repairs already done are uploaded, I will attend to some of the additional complaints — beginning with the obvious but dull question, how do I set a maximum width? (And Jakob Nielsen is a real expert: his words carry great weight with me.)

Oh, that blue. Where did that come from? I didn’t put it there. Hunting: it will die.

New icons have been made, based on Derek’s idea of red background for unread and white background for read. The only blue I see on the front page is that of a link — and links are usually blue. Am I missing something? I want the user to control the page width — not me. No alterations planned in th...

This is a very odd and un-Derek-like tasting note. How did DRT manage to persuade a half bottle, a mere half!, to last 30 hours? In the dim and distant past this would have been believed impossible.

Relevant icons: http://www.theportforum.com/phpbb3/styles/ThePortForumRed/imageset/forum_unread_locked.gif http://www.theportforum.com/phpbb3/styles/ThePortForumRed/imageset/forum_unread_subforum.gif http://www.theportforum.com/phpbb3/styles/ThePortForumRed/imageset/forum_unread.gif http://www.thepo...

Same size: 18 by 18, here and there.

Currently the background is used to distinguish stickies from non-stickies (the tawny slightly resembling the yellow of a PostIt note). If red background is unread, how do I show read and unread stickies?

It’s not obvious to me that switching around the colours in http://www.theportforum.com/phpbb3/styles/ThePortForumRed/imageset/topic_unread.gif would help distinguish it from http://www.theportforum.com/phpbb3/styles/ThePortForumRed/imageset/topic_read.gif . Or have I misunderstood? Comparisons: htt...

OK, new version of header code sent to admin for upload. Next: where have the “Quote† buttons gone?

1. Admin, thank you kindly for loading it. 2. Comments are welcome. phpBB has many dozens of different pages defined (many within the User Control Panel ), and whilst developing I have been unable to preview any. 3. The header is a mess. Not sure what’s gone wrong: icon missing; stupidly big font. W...

Peter Wylie Fine Wines Tel: +44 (0) 1884 277555 (U.K. office hours, please) Fax: +44 (0) 1884 277557 1935 1 bt Taylor, b/n, stencilled Jubilee Coronation Year 1935, branded lead capsule, looks fantastic £585 - 1945 1 bt Graham, Oporto bottled, complete wax capsule, very good label £645 - 1945 1 bt S...

My father and I wish to split a case of magnums of champagne: dry, good quality, probably vintage, but not outrageously expensive. Does anyone have any recommendations better value than Mumm Belle Epoque Vintage 1999, 3Ã 1.5L, at £303?

The little * shows a topic to which you have posted. Animations are hateful, and meant to indicate a ‘hot topic’, that is, one with â”°Â¥15 replies. As ‘hot’ is mean to be a topic in which one is more likely to be interested, my icons indicate this with a tiny glass. Better than no glass at all! An...

1. They come in a handy box that slides right under your bed.
2. Thirty-six glasses is five people, seven bottles, and a spare. You might need them.
3. Due to some breakages I could take a dozen from you, if you still want to split a box.

I still can't see "Unread Thread", but can see "PostReply" (but not "Reply") Different icons by the threads have different meanings. Read versus unread; hot (â”°Â¥15 replies) versus not-hot; announcement or not; sticky or not. Those icons do not have words on them, bu...