Hear. Hear. I really wish my school had taught shorthand instead of cursive. I'm 45 and I can say that cursive has been useless to me while shorthand would have been a very, very useful skill.

Though I think these days the time would be better served teaching touch typing while kids are young enough to absorb it thoroughly, maybe with shorthand as an option in high school.

here in Aus we also have two, football & cricket.

>An amateur astronomer puts up pictures on his blog and we're comparing it to Shoemaker-Levy?

Levy is an amateur, his degree is in english lit. He won an amateur astronomers award.

(what I tried to post last time, bloody web2 crap)

That's just the kangaroos.

And if you try it in Australia the locals turn up with a bag of sausages and some paper plates.

removing bad moderation

Apples & oranges, only MS has the desktop monopoly to make this work.

And the lack of an uninstall makes it malicious by my standards.

Australia has a constitution, it's a Bill of Rights we are missing.