Avoid Alliteration. Always. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.) Employ the vernacular. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. Contractions aren’t necessary. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos. One should never generalize. […]
Ordered a laptop at Dell earlier this week. Tuesday morning I received the order confirmation: Estimated arrival May 14th. Nothing wrong with that, of course. It does take a couple of days for Dell to ship a laptop from Ireland to Norway… Or so I thought! Turns out the laptop is making quite the world
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Move over, Flipboard! Google Currents is here to stay! As of today, both https://evert.meulie.net/ & https://donateaday.net/ are also being published via/on Currents. Google Currents is a social magazine application for tablet computers released by Google in December 2011. It is currently available for Android and iOS devices. The application covers a variety of sources and
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On June 24th, 2011 the Dutch government announced drastic budget cuts (69.5%!) for Radio Netherlands Worldwide. The current budget of €46 million will be cut to €14 million, starting 2013. Of its 3 core functions, 2 are being scrapped: All broadcasts in Dutch will be cancelled, and remaining broadcasts will focus on countries where there
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Nordby shopping center in Sweden offers dedicated parking spots for electric cars nowadays. They even advertise for it on their web site… Is that an electric Massey Ferguson?
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Yup, currently my Nissan LEAF is nothing more but a GPS+radio in an air-conditioned metal box on wheels. Auxiliary systems like the radio, Sat Nav & AC work just fine, but the engine won’t start. I’ve done some Googling, and the problem seems a lot like the one reported in a posting in the LEAF