Omega zip disks

10 January 2010, 3:15pm
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I posted on my main blog that I believe the kindle will go the way of the Palm handheld devices that existed before they morphed into mobile phones.

The Palm m100 was a gadget purchase that I regret.

The other dead technological item I readily recall is the zip disk.

Yesterday I discovered several of them in a box in my cupboard.

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technology, storage, data, computers

Holiday

7 January 2010, 9:21pm
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I start my first holiday since April on Saturday. It will probably also be my last significant break until the same time next year.

With four children we really have to plan our leave around school holidays and January suits me best.

It's generally quiet in the office.

One problem I've had to consider this year is maintenance of the newspaper website.

I've trained a junior journalist to upload stories, but nobody else has the system knowledge or experience to run certain features (like the poll and upload photos) or moderate comments.

I just have to disable these. Hopefully by this time next year someone will show enough interest to want training in those aspects.

As for the holiday ... can't wait!

holiday

Readability test

3 January 2010, 2:14pm
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Readability test
These are the readability test results for this website from Juicy Studio.

The Gunning Fox Index score of 8.71 places this site in the same bracket as most popular novels.

The Flesch Reading Ease score of 65.11 is within the aspirational realm for authors of 60-70.

The Flesch-Kincaid Grade of 5.54 means that 11-year-olds can comfortably read the content.

The navigation links have probably distorted the results a little, but I'm happy with the grades. They suggest this site is easily readable, but not juvenile!

language, reading

Mount Gambier social network

2 January 2010, 8:20pm
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Ning
This is a screenshot of the Mount Gambier social network site I have setup at http://mountgambier.ning.com/.

It's a little pretentious of me maybe, but I felt it was a logical extension of The Border Watch website.

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network,Ning,Mount Gambier,

Name trivia

2 January 2010, 4:16pm
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If you want to learn some trivia about your name visit http://www.isthisyour.name.

For my name I discovered: 42% of the letters are vowels. Of one million first and last names we looked at, 22.8% have a higher vowel make-up. This means you are well envowelled.

According to the US Census Bureau, 2.641% of US residents have the first name 'Michael' and 0.0003% have the surname 'Gorey'. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 24 Americans who go by the name 'Michael Gorey'.

Michael Gorey, your Power Animal is the Mid-Career Mike Tyson. Discover more at www.IsThisYour.Name

names, trivia

Honor roll of editors

1 January 2010, 4:16pm
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The Border Watch is the first newspaper I've worked at that has an "honour roll" of editors.

It is an honor to be an editor and it's nice to see the fact recorded.

The world-record tenure of John Watson (1863-1925) is safe from me.

Honor roll of editors

history, newspapers

Spelling and comprehension

31 December 2009, 4:16pm
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Found this on Facebook, not sure how true it is.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. If you can raed tihs, psot it to yuor wlal. Olny 55% of plepoe can!

I read it all without any trouble.

language, spelling, grammar, reading
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