It wasn’t until catching a snippet of this evening’s Have I Got News For You that I realised that Peter Serafinowicz, whom I know as Duane Benzie from Spaced, and as Pete from Shaun of the Dead also did the voice for Darth Maul in Episode 1. Huh. I’m normally pretty good about matching up voices, but I hadn’t twigged to this one.
Insomnia: the bright side
- If I get to sleep when I first go to bed, I get a full night’s rest. Yay!
- If I don’t get to sleep, I get to read more of whatever book I’m in the middle of. Yay!
It’s a win-win situation, really.
Fiona Walks!
Fiona has been cruising for months now, and walking hand-in-hand with us for a few weeks. While we were in France, we were tricking her into walking the odd step on her own. But today she finally decided that she was going to do the walking! (Click the picture for a 2MB video clip.)
Yay Chuffy!
I’m not a grammar nazi, but… (part 2)
In the wake of my previous post, I feel the need to get another rant off my chest: the importance of distinguishing between loose and lose.
- loose is the adjective meaning unrestrained, detached, free, or floppy. Loose change. Loose women. You can also use it as a verb, but in that case it means you are actively releasing something. You can loose a ship from its moorings, for example.
- lose is a verb meaning you don’t have something any more. You lose your keys. I lose my cool when you mix them up.
The strongest reason I can offer for picking the right one is the way I saw a piece of exercise equipment being advertised in a shop window recently:
Loose fat fast!
Now I know they were trying to give the impression that working out with this kit would give you firm abs and a tight butt, but the actual promise was that you would end up looking like a half-filled water balloon.
Personally, I’d rather not run the risk.
Just get them straight, willya?
I’m not a grammar nazi, but…
- “Solution” really isn’t a verb
- “Solitionize” isn’t even a freaking word
Mini-rant over.
Been busy lately…
…Hence the quietness.
We’ve got a new bathroom, we’re in the middle of having a new kitchen installed. My mother-in-law is over on holiday from California. Alex has had his fourth birthday, with associated parties. I’ve been working hard on a great project at a client during the day, and working hard on a stock control and order management system for Marott in the evenings. Blogging has kind of fallen by the wayside, as have the quick reviews, and they are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
In the meantime, I’m stocking up huge amounts of dissatisfcation with my current site design, and will thus have a heap of new ideas to unleash during the annual redesign around August.
I’d like to take a moment, though, to drool over the @Media conference on Web Standards and Accessibility in June. Jeffrey Zeldman, Joe Clark, Douglas Bowman, Molly Holzschlag, and many others.
Droooooool
There, that’s better.