Dance class tonight! This is usually where we encourage the dancers to come wearing fancy dress, but turnout tonight is somewhat disappointing – we manage to round up enough people for one four-couple set. (Many others seem to have vaguely plausible excuses for not being there tonight.) Even so, we're enjoying ourselves!
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New Feature Roundup
This week saw the addition of various small new features to the dance database. Here's a quick roundup.
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Oval Office Meltdown
Unless you spent today under a rock, you will have seen or heard the epic shouting match which took place in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskij. Trump and Vance were trying to pressurise Zelenskij into agreeing to a hypothetical truce/peace settlement negotiated between Trump and Putin, signing a “deal” that would give the USA exclusive access to various natural resources in Ukraine as a condition for future support, and accusing him of not being successfully thankful for what Trump did to support Ukraine.
Read moreShort Links and “The Reel”
While we're talking about minor features of the Strathspey SCD Database, here's another topic we haven'T really covered a lot so far. This is the “short links” service and, in particular, its relationship to The Reel, the newsletter put out by the RSCDS London Branch.
Read moreSorting Dance Lists
Sometimes there are clearly-useful features in the database that just seem to be overlooked. But it's fun to add them in when it turns out people have a need for them, just to help these people out.
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