From an AP report: A passenger, identified only as A. Chernopup, was aboard a recent flight from Moscow to the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk. Seeing that the crew were intoxicated and were not fulfilling their duties, Chernopup asked to be served by a sober and competent flight attendant. He was then beaten up by two…
It’s good to see that some papers are spelling the name of the new president of the European parliament, Josep Borrell, with only one “l”. Borrel is Dutch for “drink”, including in the sense of a Friday afternoon booze-up.
Nick Lloyd is posting literary references to the miserable state of the costa. I believe that we should learn to accept that it is destined to be repeatedly laid waste by entrepreneurs: Everyone … could see with their own eyes the desolation of the Spanish, French, and Italian coasts, thanks to the pertinacious infestation of…
Seriously, if I write this blog in Portuguese, will someone invite me onto Orkut? Or am I better off just heading down the Brazilian bar down the street? All these do-good schemes always end up in trouble – just check the story of rioting at the Forum over in Lorna’s Shorts.
I’ve had a couple of beers, so now seems the moment to upgrade to MT3 and migrate from the Berk DB to MySQL. If that works, then the next step will be to dump MT for either WordPress or Expression thing. This is all because I can’t see MT getting round its rebuild problems and…
Re Sony’s PlayStation Portable: The firm demonstrated a piece of software called Talkman, which utilises the built-in microphone port of the PSP and allows users to speak into the device in one language and have what they said translated into another, spoken, language. The software uses a cartoon bird as its main interface, which is…
The Taoiseachracy got sick of being hassled during the Irish presidency of the EU by lobbyists for various unloved languages, so here’s a little bit of revenge that should end discussion of EU institutional language policy for the next decade: LONDON — Ireland said yesterday it wants Irish to be made the 21st official language…
Says GhanaWeb, which also contains the strange account of the Al Qaeda and Taliban gangs at Kumasi High School chopping each other up with cutlasses whilst of the belief that a session of cutlass juju had made them undismemberable. Ghana is down from 128th to 131st place in the latest UNDP rankings, principally because people…
Paul Welsh writes: Lord Butler’s report may have been produced for the British Parliament, but it is being poured over and digested around the world. What, though, is being poured? Scorn? I’m going to try some nice cold custard.