The "Security Alert" you get from the Alliance & Leicester has an encoding of "Cyrillic"...

Weights and measures:

How much Ginger Beer, exactly, constitutes "lashings"?

I have 9 x 1 pint bottles, made according to Mrs. Beeton's recipe, and I'm wondering if that's enough...

Somewhat belatedly, I would like to wish a very happy and prosperous (as far as is possible in the current economic climate) 2009 to everyone.

Woke up at 6am (on account of it being a Weekday, see) and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up and pottered around a little, played with my camera, prepared a plan for the Cooking Of Dinner, that kind of thing.

As a result, I'll reiterate yesterday's Seasons Greetings, with a couple of suitably festive images:

( Clicky here for festiveness )

That's it.

I have finished work now (until Monday).

I'd like to wish a joyous and stress-free Non-Specific Midwinter Festival upon anyone who reads this, and all their friends and family too. And their dog.

Just looking through the photos, and came across ( this, which I present for your interest )

Many thanks to the geek language scholars out there, who (maybe remarkably) all seem to be in agreement.

Particular thanks (I think) to glinda_w and uitlander for quoting Chapter and Verse from the MS Style Guide ( Read more... )

Is it "logon to", "log onto", or indeed "log on to"?

Or, for that matter "login to", "log into", or "log in to"?

Answers on a postcard, please.

We are sat sitting here, at side-by-side his'n'hers computers, listening to the bloke on Radio 2 news telling us that UK adults are now spending more time than ever before on the Internet.

An average of 24 minutes per day...

/me pauses to listen for hysterical laughter.

Have just received notification from Maplins that my A3 laminator has been dispatched and that "Due to significantly increased demand, please allow between three and five working days for your delivery."This was in my intray as I came back upstairs from testing my new A3 laminator, which arrived from Maplins this morning ( Read more... )