Perspicuous as Mud

Entries from March 2009

Christian Online Dating

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments

For a while now I’ve been thinking about starting a Christian Dating website.  There are some already out there, but they are of varying quality.  Some are free, most are subscription-based.  The free ones tend to lack even fairly simple features, the subscription-based sites tend to be rather expensive.
Whilst thinking about these sites, I am [...]

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Tags: Websites

RSSOwl and Ubuntu

March 20th, 2009 · No Comments

There are plenty of RSS readers in the world to choose from, but I do find that RSSOwl does pretty much all I could ask for and looks good too.  All, that is, except work in Ubuntu (Intrepid version at least).
I’m kind of slowly testing the waters with Linux – I need it to do [...]

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Tags: IT · how to

The absence of one little word complete reverses the meaning

March 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

When I saw this headline today in the Daily Mail:
Leona Lewis paid £1m to sing at phone billionaire daughter’s 21st birthday party
I thought Leona Lewis had paid someone for the privilege of singing at Libby Caudwell’s birthday party.  It caught my eye because that’s an unusual way to go about things.
Clearly, that wasn’t the intended [...]

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Tags: Bad Grammar · Language