Category Archives: Opinion
One From The Vault: Ranting About Editors
This week’s One From The Vault is a rant on arbitrary and incorrect “rules” of English insisted upon by some teachers, editors and pedants: There is no excuse for thinking that you can’t start a sentence with “There is.” And … Continue reading
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Creating A Silverlight Blog That Doesn’t Suck
Want to stand out from the crowd? Provide me with information I can’t get elsewhere….
You have to focus on what your blog has to offer that is different, new, interesting, better than all the other blogs available, or I return to my original question: is this worth doing? Continue reading
Two Incredible, Indispensable, Free Utilities
Here are two free utilities that are so incredibly valuable, it is stunning that they are both free (one is licensed under the Gnu Public License and the other is open source).
Ambiguous Antecedents
I recently ranted on language police who enforce arbitrary or misguided prescriptivist “rules,” that compound their misunderstanding of how languages evolve with a misreading of the history of English, applying Latin rules to a Germanic Bastard Tongue. That said, while … Continue reading
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Diary of a trip to the UK & Ireland – The Final Chapter
The ferry to Belfast was uneventful, and Belfast itself is a beautiful, scarred city, caught between decades of violence and flickering hope for the future.