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Apostrophe’s in the wild: 4
Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 | 1 CommentThose poor apostrophes keep getting abused – left out in the cold in places they have no right being. Take, for example, this woeful tale of a poor innocent apostrophe who found himself sandwiched between “DVD” and “s” at the Asda Living store in Forster... -
Thornton Ramble
Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 | No CommentsWalking is fun. It gets you from A to B, and you don’t have to pay increased fuel duty. Last Sunday I got to have extra fun walking thanks to the City of Bradford Metropoliton District Council – specifically, the Countryside division thereof – which... -
Sky Blue LE
Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | No CommentsHaving been disappointed at missing out on buying the major Korean animated film Sky Blue – the chap in CEX was unable to find where they’d put the discs – I treated myself to a copy on Amazon. When it arrived, I was thrilled to... -
Windows wins on netbooks
Posted on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | No CommentsIt seems that Microsoft is scoring a bit win in the netbook sector, with claims doing the rounds that Windows XP has gone from a mere 10% of the market in February last year to 96% now. As someone who uses – and likes –... -
Powered by Ubuntu
Posted on Sunday, April 5, 2009 | 2 CommentsMy laptop is now officially Powered by Ubuntu, thanks to System 76 and the Linux Emporium. To snag yourself some free Ubuntu stickers, simply pop a self addressed envelope across to: The Linux Emporium Bridge House 17a Maybrook Road Sutton Coldfield Birmingham B76 1AL UK... -
Twitter and XHTML validation
Posted on Sunday, April 5, 2009 | No CommentsI’ve been fighting my new WordPress theme this morning in order to get the darn thing to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional – I didn’t aim for Strict as I use the “target=_new” functionality in a lot of existing links which would need to be... -
Apostrophe’s in the wild: 3
Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 | No CommentsJust a quick update to reassure people that not only am I not dead, I still haven’t given up on a life of pedantry. The latest entry in the Hall of Apostrophe Abuse comes courtesy of Wickes in Bradford, which managed to forbid a trolley... -
An end to a saga
Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 | 10 CommentsI’ve just received a couple of e-mails from Jayne at Roofing Group UK. It seems that she’s finally noticed that my website ranks rather highly on a search for “Roofing Group UK” and isn’t best pleased about the rather scathing comments I made regarding the... -
Google Latitude
Posted on Friday, February 6, 2009 | No CommentsGoogle has unveiled a new addition to the Google Maps for Mobile fold: Latitude. Basically, it’s a service which tracks your location – or, technically, the location of your ‘phone – and tells your friends where you are. Obviously, you can see your friends’ locations... -
The light – it burns
Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 | No CommentsIf anyone visited the Frog stand at BETT this year, you may have noticed Bob the Frog glowing with the light of a thousand suns. Well, he’s still glowing – only now he’s glowing at the front of the office, blinding visitors with his incandescent...