Archive for February, 2007

Degrees of confusion

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Sky News are currently giving weather forecasts for individual cities on their morning show in the form of icons in the corner of the screen.

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Polish language signs highlight signage mess

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Highway authorities have provided metric and Polish language signage for Polish motorists but continue to ban metric signs for the rest of us. (more…)

DTI claim that removing supplementary indications will be a barrier to trade

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Britain’s department for trade and industry (DTI) has recently published a letter advocating continued derogation on using supplementary indications.

[Article by Roddy Urquhart]

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Suffolk bird flu outbreak illustrates Government mess on measurement

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

The news that bird flu has broken out at a turkey farm near Holton, Suffolk  illustrates once again the difficulty that the Government has in trying to run with an  “official”  system of weights and measures while doing nothing to encourage its use.

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