Category Archives: link

Advice on book writing: write like you talk, and don’t write like you talk.

Advice on writing book reviews.

I was really just looking at the screen captures here – I get a sense of nostalgia looking at the old black-and-white Mac control panels: The Road to Mac OS X Leopard: System Preferences

[Signal vs. Noise] the icon Apple uses to represent a PC in Max OS X

[seamus] Food for thought: Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?

[snail] free rice – test your vocab, and donate food to the third world (funded by advertising revenue) at the same time. I think I was hovering around 40 for the brief time I spent looking at this: it has the potential to take up a lot of time, if you’re so inclined.

With Sunday trading stretching even to banks, does it mean the death of the Aussie Weekend?

[/karen/] After a few months off the caffeine, I score a 4 on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (doesn’t work in Safari); maybe it’s helping me more than I’d like to admit.

Meeting Tokens – you get a certain number per week, and for every person you want at a meeting, you have to spend one.

A poem about English Pronunciation that seems to be a collection of all the ambiguities of simple words. An enjoyable read (though occasionally baffling).