You didn’t expect anything work-related on this, the opening day of the Olympics, did you? Madness. I’ve got some Olympics YouTube links for you to waste valuable work time on today. UK athlete-centric, with one or two exceptions: Seb Coe winning 1500m Gold in Moscow, 1980 – I was a big Coe fan. Never liked [...]

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Oh boy. I’ve only known of its existence for 20 minutes, but I’m already in love with this website. Want to get a really quick feel of what a website is saying? What its themes and main topics are? Then have a look at Wordle and their beautiful word clouds. As they describe it on [...]

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One of the biggest differences between British and American English is the way in which the two use (or don’t use) the word "gotten". Brits, putting it briefly, don’t. I’ve spent a few years outside the UK in the past, have non-British friends and read US websites, so the occasional Americanism will slip out when [...]

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Well, I don’t know if that’s true in your particular case, but one thing is certain: one day in the future – could be far in the future, could be next week – it will be my and your last day around. Think of how it would feel if you knew when that day was: [...]

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