A narrow gorge, usually with a stream flowing through it.
An open artificial channel or chute carrying a stream of water, as for furnishing power or conveying logs.
A very small swimming pool designed with a propeller or pump to generate a current, allowing a swimmer to swim in place.
Stephen Hawking is 65 (I would have thought he was in his early fifties).
In Canada, informal hockey games are still called shinny (from shinty, a team sport played with sticks and a ball, now played almost exclusively in the Highlands of Scotland).
YouTube videos can now be forwarded without buffering. You used to need to wait, [...]
A small room or entryway in a house where wet or muddy footwear and clothing can be removed.
A woman or girl (chiefly British and offensive).
The father of a friend of mine is dying of lung cancer.
He was always bursting with energy, one of those people who can possibly get on your nerves because they keep you constantly on your toes, but who leave an indelible mark with their humour (and the way they cook fish).
He was the incredibly strong [...]
Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 People Need to Shut The F**k Up about the Mobile Web,
in reply to
Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks.
I totally agree with the content (but perhaps not the tone) of the top article. I consume cartloads of mobile content every day (on T-Mobile "unlimited - as long as you do [...]
Land with a soft muddy surface. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.
By Jove I think I've cracked it!
Last week I wrote about planning to clean a bit every day. Ten minutes every day, to be precise.
So:
on Monday night I cleaned the kitchen
on Tuesday night I dusted everywhere
on Wednesday night I cleaned the bathroom
on Thursday I cleaned our desks in the office
on Friday I mopped kitchen and [...]
I overcome (but only slightly) my laziness to paste an email Dr B. sent to his friends yesterday to comment on the last issue of David Hoyle's Magazine that we went to see on Monday night:
Well that was fun. For those that missed it David Hoyle was back on form last night - we had [...]
To move or walk heavily or laboriously; trudge. To work or act perseveringly or monotonously; drudge.
Crudely or loudly assertive; pushy. Self-important, conceited.
Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:
SilverStripe - Open Source CMS / Framework
Simple. Flexible. Scalable. Fast. Standards Compliant. Modular. Template Freedom. Open source. Cross platform. Easy to install.
The XP alternative for Vista PCs
'While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers [...]
To keep from yielding or failing during stress or difficulty: buoy (up), prop, support.
To complain persistently and whiningly. A chronic, whining complainer.A nagging complaint.
Deserved; adequate.
I have already written about how two days into my holiday my mobile phone reset itself and all data was wiped out.
I saw this as a sign to let go and try not to make a note of absolutely everything, and also told myself that I might not need to keep a food diary any [...]
A conceited dandy; a fop.
Wilson White to Jordan McDeere on last week's (terrestrial UK) episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip:
Content may be king, but distribution pays the king's mortgage.
Having poor vision; nearly or partly blind. Slow in understanding or discernment; dull.
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If you've been paying attention, you'll have noticed that lately I've been enjoying getting rid of things.
What you see in this picture from Flickr is for me (at the moment [...]
Dr B. and I live in a medium-sized two-bedroom flat. And we never clean.
I like keeping it tidy, but do not like cleaning. He likes it being tidy, and does not like cleaning. But that might be stating the obvious, as who on earth likes cleaning?
Every so often I decide it is time to get [...]
To persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery or guile; cajole. To obtain through the use of flattery or guile.
Constraint by threat; coercion illegally applied.
Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:
50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog
'Blog clutter is the stuff your readers really don’t need, and it serves mainly to get in the way of your content and other vital information. Your content and important pages are the signal, and [...]
Noun: a cheap and showy object of little or no use; a gewgaw. Adj.: cheap and tasteless; gaudy.
To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner
The Toblerone logo has a 'hidden' image of a bear (via Gordon).
The word seersucker 'originates from the Hindi words "shir shakkar," meaning "milk and sugar", probably from the resemblance of its smooth and rough stripes to the smooth surface of milk and bumpy texture of sugar'.
Ethiopia not only uses a different calendar (the year 2000 [...]
To complain in a surly manner; mutter discontentedly. To rumble or growl.
Two days into my holiday my mobile phone reset itself and was wiped out.
I back up all my contacts daily with my desktop and online once a month, so information was not lost and easily retrievable away from home.
However, my notes on how much I had spent so far, on what, and how to split [...]
An unnamed gadget or trinket.