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They tried to copy Google...
And failed miserably!
Google's image offerings at least deliver thumbnails, not the full image merely resized on the page, and works well, especially with the easy option to see other views.
I tried looking at the Sheigra page as a slide show...
That was an hour ago and I am still looking at the silly little flickr red and blue discs dancing around one another - and I did try restarting this more than once, so another failure.
Their new "improved" format has completely ruined flickr for me, even just to look at.
I have a number of tools added to my browser that enable scrolling when they detect a certain movement of my finger over the trackpad
Guess what? None of them work and I can't scroll down the page easily as I have all but forgotten about the scroll bars.
Also...
I have a tool that previews the full size image when I let the mouse pointer stop on an image for a moment.
Of course, this is useless on the "improved" flickr page, since the page is all images with little space inbetween, so if I drop the moue pointer anywhere, I get a full size image overlaid every time!
I can turn that function off of course - but since I have never even had to think about doing this on any other site (including Google/Picasa) - then that's just another "fail" for the "improved" flickr experience.
Somebody at flickr needs taken out back and stood against a wall, and asked if they want a blindfold!
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The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of androids, robots and autonomic assistants for the known universe. They are known for their catchy jingles and catchphrases, supplied by their Marketing Department.
They are not, however, known for the quality of their products.
The Hitchhiker's Travel Guide describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which conveniently fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
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PICASA moved to a very similar layour - which I hate also - but you can usually get the classic style display. I can't see why FLICKR can't give an option, it is only a front-end accessing a database. Perhaps they are worried that too many people would choose the traditional style.
I notice that my Stats shows a marked drop in page views since the change.
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Pass!
They are differing heights so the tops are roughly level.
It might be significant that a couple are sort of embedded in the wall of the building as if they were there before the building was built.
The initial thought was a ground plane but the antenna is not by the building, it was the usual arrangement of four 100ft masts about 100ft from the building. There was a mention of a GPO radio station somewhere so there could have been earlier station on the site (or this structure could be a later one of course!).
I am sure there must be more RN DF stations around, apart the clusters in Caithness and Fife I have found this one, Oban, Tiree and Kilwinning. I think there was one at the Butt of Lewis though nothing left.
Hopefully there will be a letter from me in the local paper to see if remembers anything about it though a friend up there had no idea it was there. |
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No arguments from me on that.
I do not understand why there is no "Legacy Mode" offered behind and obvious button.
Forgetting users with slow Internet connections is a major error, and making a site slower rather than faster is a major mistake - and arrogant.
I can't help comparing to Firefox, where I have found the changes made in recent months have made it much faster, AND delivered better functionality.
A few months ago I was having to delete open tabs to get it running, now they appear to be limitless (I am heading for 1,000 as I just use them like bookmarks now), and the speed of page rendering has increased so much that I seldom have to revert to another browser.
I had to do that as I run so many Addons that add page-processing to the code that they slow down the rendering, but this "problem" has all but gone away now.
Doesn't help flickr though - I might have to open an "empty' browser to make it usable.
Not impressed, and if I served up a design anything like "new" flickr, I wouldn't be expecting compliments, or a fee cheque.
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They did the change on Monday evening and made the announcement at the same time, within an hour there were 1500 comments in the feedback area and just about all were very unhappy. By next morning there were over 9000 and again very few who like the change. I looked last night and person quoted a reply that they said they had from FLICKR, it thanks him for his feedback then basically said they were ignoring people's comments!
I have nearly 16000 images so not practical to move them.
I get the impression that it is now aimed at the bored mobile phone or tablet user who is just flicking through images rather than people setting up collections on specific subjects. Not sure where 'Collections' have disappeared to, these seem to be still there but not sure how you view them.
It was frustrating trying to get to the Help Forum, the link is at the bottom of the page and loads of images kept loading so each time I tried to click on it the page scrolled on.
They are at least giving users a free Terabyte.
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After ideas about the concrete pillars at Sheigra.
I notice the description of the 'Set' no longer is visible. |
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The Collections are hidden on another page and you have to go looking for them without any help as to where they are, I want folk to easily find my photos ( and walks ) and now I can't see them spending the time to try and find them, where as before they were on the main page and in front of you. I don't want to think about moving 2000+ photos to somewhere else  |
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Hard to miss, it was announced all through the media and the web.
I don't approve as it has lost a lost of functionality - lists and thumbnails that quickly summarise content - in favour of looking "kewl".
But the biggest sin is the assumption that everyone now has ultra-fast broadband, and all the pics are delivered full size.
This means no more quick eyeballing of a set of pics to find an interesting one, as you have to wait for every page to complete, and when you page down... everything is blank until the pics start to download again.
I actually gave up, and just stopped trying to review the changes as I didn't have the time or patience. |
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Anyone notice the changes to flickr, not for the best in my opinion  |
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Check out http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/boeing_b-29a_succoth.htm for a photograph of the intact machine and some of my crash site and Dumfries Aviation Museum photographs from 2008.
I've only visiited the site once, in April 2008, by walking over from near Drumsynie at Lochgoilhead. A lovely walk, very atmospheric upon coming through the col down to the crash site. I was contemplating visiting the site again, this time up forestry tracks from the west.
The tail gun section is badly damaged, which I theorise was due to the idiot driving the forestry plough. I've seen a picture prior to the planting of the forestry, and that section looked to be in better shape.
Idiots who remove anything from crash sites such as this for their own personal collections are loathesome. |
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I am very familiar with Ambrismore Farm which is close to the cottage and spent 1940 to 1946 on Bute. I used to cycle past and never saw any activity round there, except for farming. I can't think of any building on the west coast which would have been used.
The deep sound between Bute and Arran is more closely seen from Inchmarnock Island and that was closed to the public right through the war. That's where I would have put my listening post if I wanted to pick up the sound of a submerged submarine. That Sound is probably still used for exercises, I saw a submarine, heading South, pass close to Arran last time I was at Dunagoil |
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We lads of the Boys Brigade spent most summer weekends at Kilchattan Bay and often walked over the Suidhe Hill and past St Blane's Chapel to Dunagoil Bay. We would swim there and sometimes walk all the way back around the South end of the Island past Garroch Head and Glencallum. I was aware of the remains of the building and confirm it was derelict during the war. From the photographs of Zak and others I don't think anything has changed.
All this area was open to access, certainly to 12 year old lads and I don't remember any wartime buildings or activities of a permanent nature round the south of Bute. Incidentally, my family roots on Bute go back a long long way to the Mackays of Garrochty and the McCaws of earlier date. |
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I'm just wondering if the original showing was cancelled due to a current event? And then a modified title was given whenever the episode was shown?
It's possible given that we may all now be affected by events and storylines of what we've just watched.
Personally, I was never big on Taggart. I only watched it when working away.
I did see Taggart's first sidekick on The Mentalist the other night though! |
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Check our page for the details...
Secret Scotland - Taggart
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Despite continuing popularity in Scotland, the show's new format failed to improve viewing figures in the rest of the UK, and in May 2011, ITV announced that it had decided not to commission any further series.
The final episode, Ends of Justice, was broadcast on Sunday, November 07, 2010.
They ruined it by going from 270 minute stories (3 parters) to a tiny 60 minute format to squeeze in between the 9 pm watershed and News at Ten. No time to develop a plot or storyline, and there was also a clear directive from the backers to the writers to introduce needless sex, corruption, and conflict, as these are cheap quick fixes to generate interest inside the short format episode.
This did a real disservice to the team, who actually did well after Taggart himself died, and worked inside the longer format stories, but then suffered when they had to cram the same stories into a little more than 45 minutes, once the ad-breaks have taken their toll.
Foreign finance was said to be an option, but failed to materialise, so for the moment, that's it.
Rather fitting, we also just received some stills from Death Trap, of Mike Jardine's body being found at the Timber Ponds, and of his funeral:
Secret Scotland - Timber Ponds Clyde |
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| Can I assume that Taggart is no longer an option for future production episades?, rather sad, as every time I come home on leave, alsways manage to find DVD's that when I return, keep me reminded of home, also entertain the locals with the accents. |
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Good catch - I have to watch this later.
The Moritz device was discussed online almost 10 years ago, at which time there was little info and no pics.
Guess what?
Still no pics - and links to further info and sources are now dead.
Such is progress.
Maybe an enquiry to somewhere like Secret Scotland - Museum of Communication Burntisland would be of benefit.
From what I have found, the device was not an induction loop, but depended on men going out into the field and burying copper plates in the ground.
Since the British field telephone apparently used the ground as a return leg, this allowed them to 'tap' into the current and listen to signals.
There is very little, but a search of the web will still dig some of the info up, even though much of what it once led to has evaporated (or maybe just moved, with any luck). |
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Interesting snippet surfaced during this show - The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars.
Linky to BBC iplayer...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01skvnh/The_Somme_Secret_Tunnel_Wars/
Anyway. It seems that during the week long bombardment, prior to Over The Top on 1st July, the Germans received intel alerting them to when the battle proper would begin.
Although the British officers had been warned about speaking en clair over the field telephones, some idiot passed along a message "good luck tomorrow morning", and thereby allow the Germans to plan for the eventuality. As history records the Boche did rather well at this.
The Germans, you see, used a Moritz Listening Device to intercept the British phones. I assume it worked on some sort of induction loop. On the program it mentions the Germans picking up the phones' electrical impulses through the soil. Assuming the field telephone was a one wire and the earth was used for the return path it would be feasible.
I've never heard of the device or this warning tale before.
So does anyone have info on either of them? |
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I was fortunate to be able to talk on the phone to the first policeman at the scene of the accident,then Constable A MacDougall.Unfortunately he died before I could meet him in person or have him with us at the ceremony.He told me that the area was still burning three days later. .....
Probably not available in Strathclyde but the Highland Archives holds the original police reports on many fatal aircraft accidents with all the original statements in a bundle. It is a bit hit and miss about what survives or is held there and one involving a murder of a serviceman was still held by the police. |
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While rounding up the details of the final season of Taggart, an odd discovery was made in the listings.
While it is not an 'extra' episode in the sense that it is physicalyl an episode in addition to the accepted listings, it is an extra in so far as one of the online TV listing sites has included the same episode twice, with a different name on each entry in its listing, and a different air date.
We're curious to know if there any tangible reason reason for this, other than the straightforward 'mistake' explanation.
You can read the full detail of the oddness in the Blog:
Who can explain the extra Taggart episode: Fresh Kills? « Secret Scotland
As noted there, we wouldn't recommend trying to find the answer to this mystery online...
The info you will find there is just unresearched cutting and pasting of the same info between the sites where it is mentioned, perpetuating the anomaly without explaining it. |
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Sorry administator,you've got your work cut out here..machine seems to have a mind of it's own tonight.
..the daughter of Frank Dobbs whose ring is in safe keeping.Unfortunately I have lost contact with her and with George Kay,a veteran from NJ who was assisting me with research so if they read this or anyone knows of them,I would like them to get in touch.
This offer is also open to the 'Shirly43'
I have several photographs of that ceremony as well as the video.
I will have to learn how to post pictures and do so.
Sorry to go on a bit.
My research (as well as that of others) came up with more questions than answers so the story is far from over.
I have so far been unable to trace a photograph of '2276'
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Sorry..Finger trouble!!!
On Saturday 23 October 1993,a Wessex helicopter flown by Wing Commander Keith Parkes ,OC 72 Squadron, Royal Air Force, flew 37 people to the crash site in three lifts from the village of Strachur.
The cairn was draped with a black cloth and the stars and stripes flew adjacent.
Capt Flack USAF with a party from Edzell represented the USAF. He unveiled the cairn
The Rev John Graham dedicated the cairn and Flying Officer John Taylor RAFVR(T) played a lament on the pipes.
It was a very emotional occasion.Quite spooky too.I was Parade Commander and I have a deep voice which means anything I say is carried but on the video you can hardly hear me for the wind.When the Reverand Graham spoke,the wind dropped and his powerful voice resonated around the hills.The wind got up again as soon as he had finished!
I later spoke with Sharon Sabaska who is the daughter of Frank D |
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I was fortunate to be able to talk on the phone to the first policeman at the scene of the accident,then Constable A MacDougall.Unfortunately he died before I could meet him in person or have him with us at the ceremony.He told me that the area was still burning three days later.
The talk of the extra body probably came about as the accident report talks of recovering the remains of approximately 20 men.I don't need to elaborate on this.
The aircraft had been at 8500' and was cleared to 14000 feet by air traffic control at Prestwick.
Capt Donald E Riggs who was flying aircraft '034' had been in radio contact with 1st Lt Sheldon D Craigmyle in '2276' He got to within 400 miles of Iceland when he was ordered to divert to Prestwick however as he neared there he was again diverted,this time back to Scampton.
He had tried without success to make radio contact with Craigmyle.
'2276' had been reported as picking up heavy ice and this was the most likely cause of the aircraft falling from the sky,striking the top the hill with a wing and rolling inverted onto the plateau below.
One of the horizontal stabilisers(tailplane) was never found.
The story of the diamonds is probably true as the exchange rate was very much in favour of the Aamericans at that time and Craigmyle was a jeweller to trade! The glass 'Aka Seltzer' bottle in which he is alleged to have kept the diamonds would probably have broken with the impact or melted in the ensuing fire so if there are diamonds they are going to be impossible to find.
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Thanks for the note.
I have found a pic of the cairn, so will soon be updating our page: Secret Scotland - B-29 Superfortress 44-62276 Lochgoilhead with the memorial related facts you offered.
If there is anything you would like to add, you can add the notes here and they will be written up later, or you can add to the page directly, and we will format for site style later (if prompted for a password, it is just sesco).
Sad about the prop, it was either a fortunate discovery by the thief, or you were being watched as you worked, and they waited until you had done all the work for them, and dug it out.
Disrespect of metal thieves is a growing issue we have covered in this Forum, and so rampant that non-ferrous metal memorial parts and similar are being replaced with copies that have no scrap value.
Details are not clear, but I had little sympathy for a recent news story reporting the damage to the roof a lawyer's premises, followed some time later by staff reporting a smell... and the discovery of a body - the burglar - inside one of the building's chimneys. |
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I found this site quite by accident and saw the B-29 thread so I joined.
I was the CO of 2296(Dunoon)Squadron ATC at the time when the cadets built the memorial cairn.Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum kindly supplied the memorial's plaque.
We had planned to top the cairn with a propellor and had most of it dug out before we had to abandon for the night due to the dreaded midge.There were so many of them that they clogged up our face nets making it impossible to see and difficult to breath! On our return the next day we found that somebody had stolen the prop.By chance we found the large quartz rock now on top so despite that act of desecration by the thieves we have a very fitting memorial.
A small memorial plaque along with a Browning 0.5" machine gun is on display in the TA centre at Dunoon.
I have copious notes about the crash as well as video of our dedication ceremony.That in itself is a story !
I have the dog tags of one of the crew members which was returned to me by the USAF as they could not find relatives.A friend has a wedding ring in safe keeping,hopefully to be returned to a relative with whom we have lost contact.
If there is any interest I can post more details later.
RG |
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The media never misses an opportunity to reinforce its story about Cultybraggan Camp being one of the place where Rudolph Hess was detained, for one night.
Ryder Cup volunteers could stay in Nazi POW camp - Top stories - Scotsman.com
WW2 prisoner site Cultybraggan Camp to house Ryder Cup volunteers | Dundee & Tayside | News | STV
My challenge is still unanswered, and I would like to see a validated account, or a record of some sort - other than one of the media's stories - that documents the stay of Hess at Cultybraggan.
Any actual record will do, but not a cyclical loop that merely circles around media offerings from those such as the BBC, STV, and online news sites.
I've managed to dig up independent accounts for most other locations, but so far, only the media repeats this story, and never quotes a source or reference.
If it can be proven, I would like to add it our Wiki page, but until then... this location stays out in the cold. |
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| A very good article in the Glasgow Herald that mentions the bouncing bombs, as this is the 70th anniversary of the Dambuster's Raid on Germany, mention of Loch striven |
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Note on the BBC website that there is an article on a new hydro scheme commencing on the 70th anniversary of the Act that enabled the initial start up in 1943.
Interesting reference that this should have been a catalyst for industrial developments. |
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