An “OverHeard Online” moment:
A – Snuck? What sort of word is that? Why are so many people devoid of any notion of proper past tenses? B – Someone snuck that right in! C – Following this, I was taught not to use the word ‘chuck’ as should use ‘thrown’. Unless perhaps as the past tense of chick D…
Need Features
I’m trying to use all the features of this WordPress theme and getting frustrated – then I notice some features are disabled. They’re missing because this WordPress theme is pretty good and supports images, but like all good things, it costs to get the full version. In Aussiebux™, around $80. From the creator’s website, it…
Letters to the editor
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The Internet’s First Search Engine
Anyone remember Ask Jeeves? Altavista? Excite? Lycos? WebCrawler? Infoseek? Yep – all search engines designed to help people find information on the web, but did you know they all have a granddaddy? Meet the guys that brought back Archie. Archie was the go-to place to search – for files to download. Not so much web…
Trump Ghosted By Wife, Daughter
After a being jeered, booed, and heckled at a rally last week, it looks like he’s being abandoned by Melania and Ivanka at his trial now. He’s been charged for a range of crimes, is (poorly) defending a whole raft of other charges any of which will end in jail time, takes (and is no…
This Is The Duck’s Nots (sic)
On my publications on other blog/news websites, I was having trouble being able to do what I can do now on this server! Like, Subscribe, Share, and there are a few more features I’ll have to wait to unlock, but so far this move to WordPress has been a lot of win. Best of all…
When Penguins “A Pier”
It’s been a while since Kerry and I have been able to head to the coastal town of Inverloch on Victoria’s Bass Coast. So Monday a week-and-a-bit ago we tried a quick trip there to have what’s almost become a ritual for us – a meat pie from Paul the Pieman Bakeries, then a quick…