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Website of the week

OK, maybe just website of the day, but possibly of the year! I just came across this one by watching Tekzilla, a techie video podcast by revision3.com. Yes, geeky, but what fun! You go to this site and you can hear speakers of English from many different backgrounds read the same paragraph. I am notoriously unable to mimic accents (except perhaps my very limited imitation of “that’s not a knife, this is a knife” in my best fake Australian) and maybe I will learn something there.

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Alverthorpe Park in November 2008

From a walk we took there on November 2.
Alverthorpe Park in November 2008

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ScribeFire for blog writing

I know, I promised not to post geeky stuff here. But, for anyone who might benefit from this information, I note that ScribeFire is a neat Firefox extension that handles blogging.

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A 2008 retrospective

The promise of a new blog to be regularly updated is here. The first step to fulfilling it in my mind involves a summary of 2008 from our perspective. Without further ado, here is our holiday letter for 2008: Holiday-Letter-2008.pdf