2009/08/30 22:20
Anna's language is developing rapidly at the moment – my recent posting is already out of date.However, I feel I should write a bit about her grammar while it's still simple.For a very long time, most of her utterances consisted of one or two words.The vocative would be expressed by a name on its own (Dade! Mimi!), but in all...
2009/08/27 11:34
The English GCSE results are out.Shockingly, 21.6 per cent of grades were awarded an A* or A, and more than 67.1 per cent of entries were at grades A*-C. [A* is a English invention because too many pupils were getting an A.]This makes a mockery of having an international scale of grades.In Denmark, where the A-F scale was introduced recently...
2009/08/31 7:49
Det er i dag 40 år siden, mine forældre blev gift i Odder Kirke.
Tillykke til dem!
De fejrer dagen alene i Italien, hvor de i praksis nu bor, så jeg håber, de får en god dag.
Jeg véd allerede, hvad de giver hinanden i rubinbryllupsgave, da de købte den, mens vi besøgte dem tidligere på måneden: En Gaggia Syncrony Logic, og den er altså dejlig! 
2009/08/29 14:49
The kiddie programme Balamory has eight main characters:Archie, a white English man in a kiltEdie, a white Scottish womanJosie, a black English womanMs Hoolie, a white Scottish womanPC Plum, a white Scottish manPenny, a white English womanSpencer, a black American manSuzie, a white Scottish womanThat is, there are five women and three men. Four of them are white Scottish, two are white English, one is black English and one is black American.That didn't strike me as looking particularly as the...
2009/08/28 17:16
Socialdemokraterne og SF's beslutning om at ignorere Det radikale Venstre i formuleringen af deres fælles valgprogram er endnu en konsekvens af, at De Radikale ikke længere er tungen på vægtskålen.Alt afhænger derfor af, hvordan situationen ser ud efter næste valg.Hvis den nuværende balance bevares, har Enhedslisten + SF + SocDem + DrV ikke flertal, og der er hamrende ligegyldigt, om...
2009/08/26 20:00
There was a must-read article in The Telegraph yesterday about CCTV cameras.It points out that very few crimes are solved due to the cameras: "For every 1,000 cameras in London, less than one crime is solved per year."I'm sure there...
2009/08/25 20:00
The Study Hacks blog has a posting about when and how "real" writers write (hattip: Mailund on the Internet), and it makes the following recommendations:Spread out work on an assignment over several days. Coming at it fresh increases its quality.During...
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