Entries from January 2009

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Counting Heritage

My Great-Grandad John (Jack) Porter and Me
I mentioned to some one the other day that I don’t use my own voice for talking.  I still have an accent and it’ll never go away, but the edges are softened, my glottal stops have all but disappeared and I dont say “tha noz” at all anymore.  It [...]

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Seven Things

I was tagged a couple of days ago by @moodlegirl on Twitter to complete the “Seven Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me” meme. The list just kind of evolved.  I kept adding ideas to geistesblitz and then got to work.  There were other things that I deleted and yet more that could have been [...]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Opera Mini + m.slandr.net

I’ve been on holiday for a week – so that was no internet for me unless I paid $$$ for a 15 minute session.  Or was it?

It wasn’t at all.  I have Opera Mini on my phone and most of the web, e-mails, social networking and news that I access on my laptop were there [...]