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There goes my clean rating!

LOL. I just finished listening to the podcast I recorded last night and am giggling away to myself right now because I don’t remember myself being quite THAT animated. Damn, there goes my clean rating!...

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Ostracize the Xenophobes – AmericaNet

Lifehacker had what I can only call a xenophobic post yesterday: Stop spam from foreign countries.The short post deals with a method of eliminating spam from Outlook by using top-level domain...

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Ich bin – Errr- I am not fra Tyskland!

Okay Facebook? What gives?I know I’m a bit of a confusing git for your advertising system to figure out being an Irish guy living in Denmark. You have my apologies for that.Yet, I have to wonder why,...

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Can't speak it, can't write it! Shut up, you Facebook using twat!

I just posted a tweet about Facebook asking me (and hundreds of other users) to help translate the service from the American dialect of English, English (US), to the original English, English (UK).I’m...

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The buzz has left blogging. Wah wah, f’n wah…

Nick Carr asks “Who killed the blogoshpere?“. In an excellently constructed piece he laments the blogosphere and compares it to Ham Radio‘s which, oddly enough, while once being the domain of the über...

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Why Spell Check Can't Be Trusted And What Should Be Done

How do you know?While writing my post about what to do with draft blog posts, I typed in the word “repurposed” into the editor and the spell checker in Firefox highlighted it as being incorrectly...

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Muffin-top?

Muffin-top, also known as “dunlap syndrome” is now an official part of the English language.Muffin top – A roll of flesh which hangs visibly over a person’s (esp. a woman’s) tight-fitting waistbandI...

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The Terrible Rolling Tide Of English

Whenever I hear the inimitable Stephen Fry talk there’s usually a cord struck deep within. This brief talk about the Irish language and Ros na Rún to The Phil, (December 7th, 2010) is no exception.“One...

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Muffin-top?

Muffin-top, also known as “dunlap syndrome” is now an official part of the English language.Muffin top – A roll of flesh which hangs visibly over a person’s (esp. a woman’s) tight-fitting waistbandI...

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The Terrible Rolling Tide Of English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H60kpWhyeZcWhenever I hear the inimitable Stephen Fry talk there’s usually a cord struck deep within. This brief talk about the Irish language and Ros na Rún to The Phil,...

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Guilty as Charged

The Probabilist has a list of the ten most misspelled/misused words in blogs. These are the kind of things that your spell checker just can’t catch for you. I wrote a post a good while back asking does...

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