Posts Tagged ‘City: London’
Sunday, March 18th, 2018
Around the time of the 2012 olympic games, the main site for which was Stratford in east London, I heard a fascinating talk about the “remediation” of the site from the pollution caused by its industrial chemical heritage. Here I visit another, arguably much more famous and indeed older industrial site.
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Tags:City: London, Environment, Environmental Issues, Environmental toxicology, Geography of London, industrial chemical heritage, industrial site, Interesting chemistry, London Borough of Newham, London boroughs, Pollution, Province/State: Swansea, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, river Tawe, Stratford, Stratford London, Stratford station, Summer Olympics, the 2012 olympic games, unfortunate by-product, William Blake
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
In an earlier post, I lamented the modern difficulties in running old instances of Jmol, an example of an application program written in the Java programming language. When I wrote that, I had quite forgotten a treasure trove of links to old Java that I had collected in 1996-7 and then abandoned. Here I browse through a few of the things I found.
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Tags:Alan Tongue, City: London, City: Paris, Company: Sun Microsystems, computing, Computing platforms, Country: Poland, Darek Bogdal, Guillaume Cottenceau, Historical, Java, Java platform, jmol, Person Travel, Roman law, Wyn Locke
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Sunday, March 5th, 2017
Living in London, travelling using public transport is often the best way to get around. Before setting out on a journey one checks the status of the network. Doing so today I came across this page: our open data from Transport for London.
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Tags:API, chemical databases, Chemical IT, City: London, Company: TfL, Government, Greater London, Local government in London, London, Passenger Transportation Ground & Sea - NEC, PDF, Public transport, Route planning software, search engine, Sustainable transport, Technology/Internet, Transport, Transport for London, travel apps, travel data, XML
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I started what can be regarded as the precursor to this blog. As part of a celebration of this anniversary,[1] I revisited the page to see whether any of it had withstood the test of time. Here I recount what I discovered.
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References
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P.W. May, S.A. Cotton, K. Harrison, and H.S. Rzepa, "The ‘Molecule of the Month’ Website—An Extraordinary Chemistry Educational Resource Online for over 20 Years", Molecules, vol. 22, pp. 549, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules22040549
Tags:10.5517, Advertising & Marketing - NEC, chemical context, Chemical IT, chemical markup language, City: London, Commercial REITs - NEC, Company: Chime, Company: Eastman Kodak, Company: First Industrial, digital cameras, Digital Object Identifier, food additives, Historical, HTML, Imperial College, industrial strength HTML editor, Java, JavaScript, manufacturing factory, mauveine using molecular modelling software, Person Attributes, Photographic Equipment, Technology/Internet, validation tool, Web, web archaeology, web server, XML, year old Web pages
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