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25/3/08, Channel 5, 8pm-9pm.



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John Rowland wrote:

25/3/08, Channel 5, 8pm-9pm.


I enjoyed that.


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25/3/08, Channel 5, 8pm-9pm.


I enjoyed that.


Me too -- unlike most such programmes, it wasn't peppered with errors
and was genuinely informative. It covered a lot of ground, too. But I do
wish the media would stop using football fields as their unit of measure
for buildings (as well as Wales as the unit of measure for rain
forests).


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John Rowland wrote:

25/3/08, Channel 5, 8pm-9pm.


I enjoyed that.


Me too -- unlike most such programmes, it wasn't peppered with errors and
was genuinely informative. It covered a lot of ground, too. But I do wish
the media would stop using football fields as their unit of measure for
buildings (as well as Wales as the unit of measure for rain forests).

Nothing wrong with El Reg standard units, see...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/...converter.html
....which was born out of these two articles.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08...ral_standards/
and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10...reg_standards/
....use them all the time myself..:-)
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In message , at 19:25:59
on Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Steve Dulieu
remarked:
Nothing wrong with El Reg standard units, see...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/...converter.html
...which was born out of these two articles.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08...ral_standards/
and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10...reg_standards/
...use them all the time myself..:-)


I prefer the FFF system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_System
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