Has anyone else noticed French words such as sans gradually creeping into English in place of perfectly good words such as without? I believe that this is not coincidental but rather the work of a dedicated group of French extremists who, by gradually increasing the proportion of French words in circulation, hope to replace the English language entirely within just a few decades. Par recognizer this behaviour, we can arret it before it gets out of main. Mai, si nous do not faites attention then pendant just a few ans, we could find qui French is the nouvel Anglais. Dit "non" maintenant a English avec Francais!

Diese Anmerkung ist auch auf Deutsch vorhanden.

Well it's lunch time and all the blinkenlights are working...

..... Corp announces its latest TV screen technology. The screens, driven by photon emitting mouse brains have higher contrast and a greater viewing angle than existing OLED or OLEP screens. Furthermore, the new screens are environmentally friendly being powered only by cheese and 100% biodegradable. Dead mice are replaced easily and cheaply. The new NeuroVision screens are expected to hit the market as soon as problems with the Cat Repulsion Technology (CRT) have been ironed out.

Let's hope that they don't stop dilithium shipments!

I live in a rural area in the UK (a short distance north of Belfast, if you must know) where I cannot get ADSL - having tried, I now know that my telephone line is more than 10Km long! So I have been using a 3G/HSDPA modem on Three (Hutchison). I plug the modem into my (Draytek) router and regularly work from home with two laptops running VPNs into different companies and my wife often connects her laptop by WiFi also. The "Mobile Broadband" handles it with no problem and is a lot cheaper than the alternative satellite service that BT tried to sell to me.

I went on a Pirate Program at work. They sent me to the Caribbean where I learned to drink rum, bury doubloons, walk the plank and carry a parrot on my shoulder. Best training I ever did - what a week! Every merchant banker needs to do this.