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Reference Library – Household

You will find 6 articles kept in this reference library.

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D, F, G, H, L.

D

  • Dressmaking Fabrics

F

  • Female Clothes Sizes
  • Fourteen Calendar Table

G

  • Gas Oven Settings

H

  • Household Measures

L

  • Laundry Symbols

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James Web Space Telescope

Launch Window Delayed AGAIN until30 March 2021
18 months to go.

Find Out About The James Webb Space Telescope

The launch date has been delayed AGAIN until 30 March 2021. Find out more.

Go to: The NASA JWST Launch Website

Find out all about the JWST from NASA. They’re running the show with some help from the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

My Latest News

3rd June 2019: I’ve had a go at making testimonials look better. The previous method was a mess so I’ve used the Kadence Testimonials block to produce a testimonials page with two neat columns which are now accessed from the Posts menu since they all originate via Post Comments.

1st June 2019: Continuing to edit using blocks I have changed to a Kadence FAQ block to display Frequently Asked Questions and their answers. I spotted a problem with the accordion block and Ben Ritner has very kindly edited the block to resolve it. There has been some editing of the Qs & As and you might find I mess with it some more.

I have also begun using the Contents Table block by Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg to show the contents of my posts. I am inserting this block after the Introduction. If I put it first as it would be in a book it causes some issues:

  1. In my list of posts that is shown in reverse date order I only want the Introduction or part thereof to be seen. If I put the contents block first that will be seen. It will take up a lot of screen space and won’t be very interesting.
  2. The contents block links to all the headings used in the post but that doesn’t work when it’s viewed in the list of post snippets described in 1 above.

1st February 2019: I have just deleted a file named wordfenceScanner.php.bin from my PHP .opcache folder on my server. Wordfence had detected it contained the TimThumb script which is considered to be unsafe. I must look into methods of cleaning my PHP cache. It looks as if it contains some outdated files.

2nd January 2019: Again I couldn’t get my WP v5.0.1 to update to v5.0.2 so I followed Wordfence’s instructions and upgraded it manually. I made a good job of it and searched for the cause of the problem. It turned out to be caused by the plugin DGXPCO which is designed to improve Core update security.

Hopefully if the Core updating server got hacked and a false Core program was sent this plugin wouldn’t allow it to be applied due to manual intervention. Well that manual intervention failed to allow valid Core updates through so I have deactivated that plugin for the time being.

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Posts Coming Soon

My next major Posts will be:

  • Examining The Recoil Force In A Bent Straw.

These are still in draft form but I still want to complete them eventually:

  • Hanging Pictures,
  • Plugging Screw Holes For An Old Hinge,
  • Water Proof/Resistant Adhesives I Use.

(NOTE: Titles may change in the finished posts.)

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