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Eight of the eleven decanters.

Readers with better decanter labelling technology are invited to share it.

Cockburn 1927, Army & Navy stores.

Pictures from the Friday, which I shall break into several posts.

The Taylor’s Special Quinta 1950 was identifiable only from the capsule.

Friday 16th March 2007: chez mon père, a sesquivertical of Cockburn and Taylor ( paperwork ). Present: JDAW MAW RAW WDBP RKA JFH MF SRG , and sort-of SVW. A vertical of Cockburn, with some matching Taylor vintages, and some mystery bottles. Having had very little experience of Cockburn, this was edu...

Peter Eells Timothy Taylor & Co. Limited Knowle Spring Brewery Keighley West Yorkshire BD21 1AW 11th April 2007 Dear Mr Eells, Earlier this year I visited The York, a fine pub near Angel tube station in London, wherein, with a friend, I thoroughly enjoyed six pints of Timothy Taylor Landlord. A ...

Clean, simple, easy to read, high-contrast: fantastic.

Graphic designer gone mad and a pestilence on the users who we hate anyway: bad.

Shhhhh! Nobody had noticed.

Well, excellent. A pecking order has been established. My introduction thread has sixteen replies, not including this one. The introduction thread used by everybody else (Well, here we are), has a mere fourteen. Ha!

Actually, having this section machine readable would be a great joy in the future. And the time to work on that is now. • As for webmasterlyness, there’s no harm in a standing policy of you changing thread titles to conform to generally-accepted practice. Propose: Title = YYYY House, where House ∈ {...

Oh joy!

I recognise that my usual avatar makes me not-a-team-player type person. But, well, I can’t be bothered to locate a cat picture that speaks to me, or of me.

Or, when deleting one's own stuff, replace it with something like “[Mildly raunchy picture deleted on the suggestion of …]†. And perhaps leave in a link to the picture. And, to be emphatic, there’s nothing wrong with mischief. :-) Back to the main point: when I said My preference would be nothing. ...

KillerB wrote:Sod 'em, we're having avatars.

You’re not wrong.

Though you could have tighter size (width≤80, height≤60, bytes≤5k) restrictions. And ban moving avatars, which I think terrible. (Yes, I know I’m alone.)

Also, a thread on this subject on a different BB, FWLIW.

Blackberry is a fair comment. But making Blackberry users wait until the thing is loaded, before having to turn the page, is harder on them. Instead have a giant length, so the whole things loads whilst being read.

Another way of helping Blackberry users is not to have avatars.

Does decanting through muslin leave a taint of cotton dust? I’m pondering an experiment to be performed on a magnum of Noval 1963. Seal to be photographed and then removed, and the bottle left standing in the cellar. This allows things to settle after the bottle-shaking wax cutting. On tasting day, ...

Everyone has broadband. 100 my preference; 50 suggested as a compromise.

The phpBB default is that a thread turn the page at 15 posts. Please could that parameter be changed to 50. Fifteen so breaks the continuity of a conversation.

If I can't be given permission to reply to that thread, delete the whole thing. Sorry: bad idea.

Fantastic idea! Can we each supply our own? Bottled gases, Uruguayan bonds, Pension reform — each to his own alibi.

I can't reply to this thread. My being able to would be the whole point.

My preference would be nothing. Don’t waste the space. And, for those logged on from work, a bottle might not look like ‘work’.

Please could there be two buy-and-sell zones?
• Dealers and auctions (letting people know what others are selling)
• I need; I sell (to deal with the poster)
Better names might be, well, better.

Edit: failed to see Uncle’s thread on same subject. Doh!

OK. New time code is “G:i D d M Y†, which removes the offending item.

TPF is now listed in The Open Directory Project (though might take a few hours to appear). When google next takes a copy of the ODP’s free data it will appear in the Google directory. Both of these will help the search engine rankings.

Definitely cosmetic.