I had no idea, but since 2000, Word’s spelling and grammar module has been able to catch clichés, jargon, passive sentences and use of my first person. To enable, go to tools, options, spelling and grammar, and look for the Style section.
oid930
Jeg fik den behagelige webredaktør i røret omkring frokost. Hun stillede spørgsmål og skrev en glimrende historie halv to. Halv tre styrelizede styrelizeren hvert andet sekund. Klokken tre på P4. Windows-boksen hejste hvidt flag halv fire. Tyve i fire var Claus klar med en Perl-version. I alt har vi kørt 14.000 websider gennem maskineriet. I dag.
oid929
I forgot a terribly important work-related task today. At this point it is definitely too late, and, just to paint it out a bit: I am in deep trouble. I know that writing this doesn’t get me anywhere, but right now, I think, it is the only way I can prove my sincerity, as some co-workers may read this.
Guys. I am so freaking sorry. Got caught up doing laundry, dishes and general cleaning around the flat. Really. Please don’t kill me on a Wednesday, such as the very one tomorrow. I. Did. Not. Mean. To. Forget.
Deeply sorry as I am, nothing can help me now. Tomorrow at around noon I’ll be doomed. That same time today was the time when they told me that I would get no further postpones, no further amnesties, no further nothings. With absolutely no consideration in my direction, they will be discussing the plot, including darn spoilers, of Matrix 3.
oid928
oid927
oid926
Something interesting is happening in the Palm screen noise thread elsewhere on this brown website right here.
Matt says he could use Lightspeed to tweak his XScale processor’s speed, resulting in a nice and quiet screen of his.
Tungsten 2 is, unfortunately, not equipped with the XScale processor, so Lightspeed refuses any action. I am looking for a over or under clocking utility for T2, but it seems nonexistent. Why?
oid925
For comedian Allan Sherman the Mars Internet is old news.
oid924
(more…)
We all know that we can’t really know if we’re swapping steamy hot emails with dogs or not. In a few moments, we’ll have to extend that wise saying with “or a Martian”.
oid923
oid922
oid921
My mother gets furious when I ask her how things are in the kindergarten. It’s. A. Motherfucking. Nursery! she screams. (Of course that is not true. She doesn’t say “motherfucking”, though it would demonstrate a respectable grain of self-irony). However, I’m sure people are being sarcastic when they state exactly that at our friday afternoon meetings.
The same confusion goes for websites. There are application websites, exploration websites, information websites and p*rn websites, architects, designers, copywriters and developers and people like me stating the obvious on a brown website.
Digital Web Magazine: User Interface Design for Web Applications
Bonus confusion
- Yeah, but you keep a diary.
- It’s a journal!
Cheers (1982-1993)
oid920
oid919
Wow, hectic. During the last 24 hours I have received well a massive amount of mails as a reaction to the previous post about my great grandmother’s painting from 1882. They all went something like:
Well. It is my great grandmother. I have no proof but the sincere tellings of my related, but they never lied to me (except for my sister, but sisters do that). So there.
oid918
oid917
The girl on this picture is my great grand mother. Really, she is. She is showing off what people with our genes are best at: sleeping in inappropriate situations. This time she really blew it, though. Hiring an artist to do her portrait, getting all dressed up, smiling, then falling asleep. That must hurt, but for us, her family descendants, it is a nice excuse and diversion when things go wrong. Again.
Bonus info
Wenzel Tornøe painted the Seamstress, Whitsun morning classic. His father was Holger Tornøe, the founder of famous FDF boy scout organisation. Only one year before my great grandmother’s wretched painting business, Wenzel’s father founded the Christian organisation with mission statements as build caverns, listen to stories, and get dirt on clothes as well as meeting children with the the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The real reason why she’s sleeping is hard work. At that time, everybody ordered new clothes for Whitsun, leaving seamstresses in a period of painful stress and no sleep for days.
Sewing was the craft in which women were first employed, but despite some attempts in the 1870s, the women were not organized until the 1890s. One of the reasons was that much of the work was carried out at home, as Wenzel Tornøes painting “Seamstress, Whitsun morning” from 1882 shows. The poor, but beautiful seamstress was a favourite motif in European painting in the 1880s, in which themes with social content were popular.
They say 1902 on their homepage. That is just modesty. The correct year is 1881. I think.
oid916