Some of you may remember my initial Plea for Spelling, in which I bemoaned the tendency of people these days to spell “ridiculous” as “rediculous”. Well, I have another plea. On the front of a computer equipment catalogue, I saw an advert for a printer. It had on the front: “The perfect compliment to any…

… was the question on my mind a couple of weeks ago, over Christmas. I was talking to Philippa and her parents, and we were wondering how TV stations managed to calculate their viewing figures – whether it was done automatically, or whether they had some form of survey, or something like that. Well, I…

Yay! My electronic piano has arrived and is set up! I went over to my parents’ house last night to pick it up. First things first, here’s a picture: [cpg_imagethumb:3,Digital Piano.jpg] I’m actually very pleased with it. The keys feel properly weighted, i.e. when you play it feels like you’re playing a real piano. The…

I’ve just read Joe’s latest blog entry, entitled “For the Dictionary People”. He’s made up a list of words that should go in the dictionary, including treasures like “Dooblesplong” and my personal favourite, “Meeblewump” (just rolls off the tongue, don’t you think?). What I love about the English Language is that is that you can…

I’ve just been reading the Cloud Appreciation Society website forums. Apparently there is someone who studies clouds and their use in predicting earthquakes: Earthquake Clouds. This is interesting stuff – a lot of the predictions have been quite accurate! And it certainly seems to hold up scientifically. In other news, I have received word that…

I’ve just found an interesting website — the Cloud Appreciation Society! Trust me, it’s well worth having a look. Here’s a couple of quotes from the ‘about’ section of their website: At The Cloud Appreciation Society we believe that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them We pledge to…

I’m afraid I don’t have anything particularly exciting to say about this weekend (no change there then…) On Friday I went into work as normal, but I started feeling progressively worse throughout the day. For a while I actually thought I’d got flu! I went home at normal time, but quite how I managed to…

This is one of the funniest things I’ve read recently: Click Here You Idiot!. I don’t really think there’s much I can say here to explain it, just read it (it’s worth it). The only other thing I can say is, there’s an article about it on The Register (which doesn’t give away much either).

Well, it turns out that WordPress v2.0 has been released! Excellent. I upgraded to it just now, it took about half an hour. You probably won’t notice much difference in general, although I do apologise if anyone finds anything on the site that’s broken because of it! Anyway. If you’re a WordPress user — check…

Just a quick update to say I’m safely back home! I got back home yesterday (Saturday, it’s still yesterday as I haven’t gone to bed yet). I got a new battery for my car, as well as some new windscreen wipers. The good news is that the windscreen wipers are now fitted. The bad news…