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, 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, 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, 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,[cite]10.3390/molecules22040549[/cite] 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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Tags:10.5517, Advertising & Marketing - NEC, chemical context, chemical markup language, City: London, Commercial REITs - NEC, Company: Chime, Company: Eastman Kodak, Company: First Industrial, digital cameras, Digital Object Identifier, food additives, 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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