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Comment on Proofreaders: know your game by David P

David P — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:42:47 +0000

… and indeed http://www.siue.edu/IS/WRITING/NewsletterC/Issue%208/page3.html

Comment on Proofreaders: know your game by David P

David P — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:39:38 +0000

Damn you, I’ve just had to read, with growing fascination, the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma …!

Comment on The first ever breakfast gov tweet-up? by Yazz

Yazz — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:44:31 +0000

Cool! Rather unbelievably we now have Yammer in the office. I’ll try and post a link to this page on there tomorrow (if your site isn’t blocked…)

Comment on Proofreaders: know your game by Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:53:28 +0000

It sits nicely. Not a single apostrophe error to pick up on/ignore.

Comment on Proofreaders: know your game by Simon

Simon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:24:18 +0000

How does this sit with your Lent stance…?

Comment on Agency madness by Alan

Alan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:34:51 +0000

A commodity is some good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. It is fungible, i.e. the same no matter who produces it. Examples are petroleum, notebook paper, milk or copper.[1] The price of copper is universal, and fluctuates daily based on global supply and demand. Stereo systems, on the other hand, have many aspects of product differentiation, such as the brand, the user interface, the perceived quality etc. And, the more valuable a stereo is perceived to be, the more it will cost.

Comment on My violin fingering: is it still right? by jay

jay — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:24:19 +0000

Even after 20 years you may be pleasantly surprised. It all comes back amazingly quick, and I’d be willing to bet it would be the technical side that would have slipped; I have a spare basic violin available here if you’re ever wanting to find out…

Comment on Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping: knowing when to stop by The power of a retweet : Tangential Ramblings

The power of a retweet : Tangential Ramblings — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:35:32 +0000

[...] wrote a blog post recently that I delighted in writing, and that people, it seems, delighted in reading. It drew [...]

Comment on Paginated articles: don’t patronise me by Buddhadev

Buddhadev — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:03:49 +0000

Thanks for blogging this! For the longest time, I thought I was the only person who absolutely despised this!

I’m of the mind that when I’m pulling up an article all I want to do is READ it once the page has loaded. I don’t want to have to “go” somewhere else to finish the experience of reading it.

The previous commenter has a great suggestion, but more and more often the websites out there are making printer-friendly options as UNFRIENDLY as possible – e.g., clicking them opens the print dialogue on your machine, printer-friendly article opens in a pop-up instead of in the same window/tab, only lets you print the article rather than letting you view the printer-friendly version, etc.

Finally, I kind of disagree about this having been better during the modem days. Back when I was on dialup, I’d hit all of my news sites at once and open everything I wanted to read, then I’d log off in order to read them. If I had to reconnect to load the next page, then nine times out of ten, I’d say “f it.”

Comment on If you like it and are able, pay for it by jay

jay — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:41:04 +0000

YES.

And again, YES. *nods head*