When I got my N310 I was determined that I would make a concerted effort to run Ubuntu on it.
I’ve tried a few times over the past couple of years to use Ubuntu, but I always hit a compatibility issue of some sort that takes longer than it should to fix, and have gone back to the safety of Windows XP. I think I will probably stay with Windows for my main day-to-day operations simply because it’s got everything I need, but a little Netbook is a different thing altogether – it doesn’t need to do everything I need. Continue reading →
I usually read menus with a mixed feeling of dread and excitement: I know there are going to be some terrible grammatical errors, which I hate; but I also know I have a pen in my pocket, and will fix those howlers when the waiter/waitress isn’t looking. There I go again undermining the very fabric of society.
A friend just sent me a link to the famous (in Italy at least) Italian Actor/Director reading a menu. He does it beautifully -- not least because the food he is reading is lovely. I don’t think tripe in English sounds nice, but that’s Saturday’s special!
Here’s the presentation for your televisual pleasure:
It’s such a shame more actors don’t get in on it -- I had a quick look around the interweb and didn’t find anything much. However, here are a couple or morsels. There’s this guy who does a reasonable job of hamming it up:
I’ve got no idea what the purpose of the “lesson” that is going on here. I thought, at first, that it was an English Language lesson for foreigners -- but I’m really not sure:
In my daily life I strive to be as paperless as possible – for months I even managed to do without renewing the ink in my printer and found ways to resuse paper or just do things electronically.
Generally, the only paper I use on a regular basis is some old paper to write down set lists for the band I play in, or a little notebook I carry around for meetings or when I’m on a train – I don’t actually object to writing by hand, and find it a relaxing activity sometimes.
Anyway, one of my bug-bears are the PDF forms I sometimes have to fill in where the author hasn’t given me the possibility to edit it electronically. Good for them I suppose, annoying for me.
After a bit of hunting around I discovered this neat little program called Docu-Track that does just the trick. And even betterer it is free, not open source, but free is still good, and it does most of what I think most people will need.
I did a little tutorial to show how to use it, which you can find right here below – I hope you find it of use.
