Euan Semple noted that lots of people seem to have been given iPods for Christmas. My experience certainly backs that up, with my Fiona’s sister receving an iPod nano, and Fiona’s mum getting a Sony ‘Walkman’-branded flash-memory based MP3 player. Both were delighted, but come Boxing Day, their first questions to me were asking whether [...]
I’ve bought a virtual server hosting account to play with and eventually move this website onto (it should work out cheaper and give me a few more options). Bit of a steep learning curve though as it’s all linux and ssh stuff and so completely over my head at the moment. I do feel like [...]
Matt Webb has written a lovely piece about ‘er’, comparing the meta-linguistics meaning of it when uttered verbally (which he pins down pretty accurately), with the ‘undo’ key on the keyboard.
My PC caught the MyDoom virus a few days ago. Actually, I was to blame as I opened the attachment. It was a pretty convincing looking bounce message, but I was suspicious so I replied to the message asking the author to explain what it was. I got a one-line reply with some explanation about [...]