Yearly Archives: 2006

Crackdown on Chinglish

I found this story quite amusing. In the run up to the 2008 Beijin Olympics, China is clamping down on bad English [news.bbc.co.uk], currently often seen in places were English is mis-translated from the Chinese, such as on street signs or menus. Some of the examples were great Emergency exits at Beijing airport read "No [...]

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Random

Hi folk! I thought I’d drop an entry into my weblog because I haven’t done one for a while. Mostly we’ve been getting on with normal life and such. At the moment I’m adding quite a few photos into the gallery and entering challenges on DPChallenge [www.dpchallenge.com]. So photography is going on. Laura has been [...]

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Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin RIP

Wow. This is pretty bizzare. I was going to say “unexpected”, but when a man takes quite as many risks as this guy that doesn’t really apply. It looks like Steve took a stingray barb to the chest whilst diving on an underwater documentary. The medics at the scene were unable to save him. I’m [...]

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August

It’s drawing towards the end of August now, which means that, in a little under a week’s time, it will be September [en.wikipedia.org] and, consequently, my birthday. Woohoo! I shall be officially old. How shocking? This year seems to have gone past fairly quickly, I think. Soon the summer will stop completely and we will [...]

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K800i first impressions

got my k800I today. It’s quite neat. There are lots of buttons all over. I am currently finding it hard to hold it without pressing one button or another. I imagine that this will change as I get used to it. It is so much smaller than my bulky old P800, but still has enough [...]

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