As I am on leave tomorrow, I don’t work Fridays, and college is closed until a.d. iii non. Ian. mmvi, I’ll say merry Christmas and a happy new year now. I do most of my blogging at work (though not…
Flat in the King’s Cross area
Fancy a flat in a high-rise building above a railway station in the King’s Cross area of London? Yes please! (via Lynne).
More Open Dictionary
I keep finding more reasons why this has received no publicity: Extravert (adjective) : French for Bright Green. uhh (interjection) : To pause because of astonishment of not knowing 1.)”Uhh, I don’t know.” 2.)”I crashed your car,” Your reponse: “uhh”…
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I had a quick look at Merriam Webster’s Open Dictionary (via Library Stuff who complained that it was getting no publicity compared with Wikipedia. I have looked previously too at Wiktionary which is doing much the same thing and wasn’t…
Friend writes another book
Sil has written another book. I don’t know how he finds the time. This one was written with Tony Steidler-Dennison and is called Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache. Not something I’m planning to do soon, but…
Why public transport rules
Public transport rules because in the summmer my wife inadvertently entered a competition with the train company WAGN who last week sent her a letter saying she had won the following vouchers: £50 at Hamleys £150 at Selfridges £100 at…
Aurlog back
Aurlog has undergone a move to a new server, hence the sparser than normal posts over the last few weeks, the momentary disappearance of comments, and the random selection of old posts sent to rss readers last week. Normal sparkling…