No, that’s not an Al Qaeda operative, it’s a command from IDEA who in the back end of 2007 posted a list of 100 words public bodies shouldn’t use as recommended by the LGA. Yes, I know I really should have commented on it at the time, but I wasn’t aware of it before, and [...]

I had an interesting — if rather bordering on lexicographical — discussion at work today over the use of the words “alternate” and “alternative”. Well, I thought it was interesting, okay? Basically, our team have some chocolate advent calendars for December and someone had devised a rota to determine who is going to get what [...]

No, we don’t know either. But we ended up having a discussion about it at work and came up with the following: Wor Net Gannin’ Inter Net Mint-Ranet Alr33t Pet Net Wey Aye Web Geordipedia Haway Home Page With a possible alternate variation of Alreet Pet Net for the non l33t-speakers. There was also a [...]

Aarrr, that be right, ye scurvy dogs! Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day again where the whole point is to lay about ye with your belayin’ pin at those landlubbers ye want to get to walk the plank. Note: Anyone wanting the pirate image for their own purposes is welcome to use it, but [...]

I just thought I’d write a few thoughts about some of the abusive messages I’ve been receiving on my site recently, let you know what was behind them, how I feel about them, and what my thoughts are regarding different sorts of comments on my site. …If I was you I would climb down off [...]

For those of you who can’t translate the pig latin above, it’s the motto of Roger’s Profanisaurus — self-described as “the ultimate swearing dictionary” — and it translates approximately to: Swearing is big and clever Which obviously is a parody of the oft-told parental advice that sets out precisely the opposite. I swear sometimes. I’m [...]

Aside from the fact that this sounds like some Northern folk band’s debut entry to the charts, or possibly some lung disease suffered by former miners, it’s actually a dictionary of language used in mining communities in the North-East. As always, I’m somewhat ambivalent about news like this. Firstly, I like it because it is [...]

I’m a believer in equality. I believe in equality of opportunity, although to be that’s a fancy way of saying I believe in fairness. Which is why I’ve produced a set of posts on the theme of equality, rambling through my beliefs and experiences as regards equalities and politics, sexism, sexuality, racism and disability. A [...]

I’m a believer in equality. I believe in equality of opportunity, although to be that’s a fancy way of saying I believe in fairness. Which is why I’ve produced a set of posts on the theme of equality, rambling through my beliefs and experiences as regards equalities and politics, sexism, sexuality, racism and disability. A [...]

If you visit the W3C‘s International page, you’ll come across the term ‘Internationalisation’, which is basically about making it… …possible to use Web technologies with different languages, scripts, and cultures.W3C However, because the term ‘internationalisation’ is a long word, many developers, designers, bloggers and suchlike can’t be bothered to write it out in full each [...]