2012/05/13 23:45
My father-in-law, Douglas (Dougie) Buchanan, passed away in the afternoon last Friday, the 11th of May.He had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago and told he only had a few months to live, so making it past his 69th birthday was quite an achievement!Even so, we didn't expect his death so soon. He was out playing...
2010/10/05 15:47
Jeg opdagede først i dag, at Hans H. Ørberg afgik ved døden den 17. februar i år, 89 år gammel.Han var forfatter til det fantastiske latinkursus Lingua Latina per se illustrata, som formår at lære den interesserede elev latin uden at bruge andre sprog end latin overhovedet.Denne måde at skrive sprogkurser på ("Naturmetoden") var ikke Ørbergs egen opfindelse (se nedenfor),...
2012/05/18 23:02
The funeral of my father-in-law, Dougie, took place today.
The ceremony was held at Linn Crematorium at noon and was conducted in a very nice and personal manner by a lady from the Humanist Society Scotland, just the way Dougie would have wanted it. He was always very insistent he didn’t want “any of that religious shite” at his funeral. 
Afterwards we went for refreshments at Cowglen Golf Club, where Dougie spent a very large part of his retirement, and the club had therefore put the flag at half mast in his honour.
There were lots of people at both events, as was fitting for a man as popular as Dougie.
In spite of the horrendous weather, I think the day was a beautiful tribute to the man and his life.
2011/10/13 22:51
It was announced today that Dennis M. Ritchie – the 'R' in 'K&R' – has died. Although it has been mentioned in some mainstream news sources, it hasn't exactly generated the same amount of reactions as the death of Steve Jobs.However, I believe dmr was probably more important in the development of modern computers.I'm sure many people read in the obituaries that he was the co-inventor of C and Unix and then just shrugged their shoulders. However, the importance of...
2011/10/06 19:22
I bought my first Mac in 1990, an SE 4/40. At that time, Steve Jobs had already been away from Apple for five years, and the company was alternating between successes and disasters.By the time this computer needed replacing, Linux 1.0 had just been replaced, and I enthusiastically embraced the Linux world and put Apple behind me.A few years later,...
2010/02/14 11:49
I'm sorry to read that El Bulli will close down.Given that it's been rated the world's best restaurant for several years, I've always had a desire to go there, but I had to contend myself with a book about it...
2009/11/03 18:18
John Wells blogged today that the Scottish phonetician Ian Catford has died. There's a detailed obituary here.I never met the man, but I love his Practical Introduction to Phonetics, which is a great introduction to articulatory phonetics, teaching you how...
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