“The principal of a year-12 student who is in a critical condition after a rock-throwing incident in northern Sydney says the school is shocked by the attack.” What is up with newspaper grammar? It took me about three reads to figure out what this sentence was trying to say. They couldn’t use a couple of […]
Personalising the Copyblogger theme
The Copyblogger theme by Chris Pearson is an elegant and simple template that is really easy to personalise to suit your blog. The theme is a “digitally remastered” version of what was in use at Copyblogger, which as you can see has undergone a makeover. Not plastic surgery, because it already had such a lovely […]
Argh, me hearties!
Ahoy! Shiver me timbers, I nearly f’rgot ’bout Talk Like a Pirate Day. ‘Ave y’rselves a bit o’ fun while ye scrub the deck, n talk like a pirate!
Meteorite Illness
This story struck me as very strange. Something from a Sci-fi show… Many people are sick after visiting a possible meteor crater. Apparently the meteor hitting the earth can release nasty gases (from meteor chemicals reacting with something in the earth). When you hear that explanation it makes a bit more sense, and it doesn’t […]
Surprising Art
On Monday we had a BBQ for ASSSoc. While we had that we were also making and selling badges. A man that works at the uni came to see what we were doing and I sold him a badge that said “be happy” with the chemical structure of serotonin on it for 50c (bargain!). He […]
Squabble – a Scrabble variation for Mac
My husband introduced me to this game the other day. It’s great! We love Scrabble. We own the board game and we play Scrabulous on Facebook. This variation reveals letters one by one and you have to make a word with them before the other person (or computer player) does. You can also steal words […]
