It's all about me

I posted previously about how to keeping with what's happening on the internet. I've been looking at ways to combine the updates from several sites I use into a convenient form. The latest candidate is Friendfeed. It covers most of my needs and can generate a nice 'widget' that I have now included on my Multiply homepage. It also lets me set up equivalent feeds for people I know. If they choose to do this themselves then I can just add them to my friends list. That's convenient as it means I don't have to join all the same websites as them to get the updates.

Some may argue that you can do similar things with Multiply or Facebook, but those tie you to a single site. I like having the flexibility to choose sites that fit my needs.

If you want to play with this stuff and don't know where to start then drop me a line.

English as she is spoke

How do we ever learn all this stuff?

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Well done! And now you wish perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead, it's said like bed, not bead-
for goodness' sake don't call it 'deed'!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth, or brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's doze and rose and lose-
Just look them up- and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart-
Come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd learned to speak it when I was five!
And yet to write it, the more I sigh,
I'll not learn how 'til the day I die.

I found this in several places on-line, but all give the author as Anonymous, so I can't attribute it.

There are more in this vein here