Off the Mark

… but broken for much longer.
This blog, Off the Mark, is 2 years old today. I shall refrain from calling it an anniversary, as such, since last year we sort of decided that my blogging anniversary ought to be from the start of my 1st public blog, …the thoughts are broken…, which debuted in January […]

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After seeing several posts about Wordle I finally decided to play. The easiest thing for me to play with were my del.icio.us tags. Even these are not entirely representative or, I should say, not accurately representative.
Based on previous (faulty) workflow, it is the case that there are hundreds of posts in Bloglines that I commented […]

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Drinking with the Troops
From a local blog, Urbanagora, comes “Drinks with a Soldier.” I just love how some jackass commentor tries to hide behind the shield of anonymity and call the post author a liar. Certainly there are all sorts of views on this war, including those of the troops fighting it.
Perhaps if you ever […]

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Back in mid-January 2007 I started a “feature” entitled “Some things read this week, …”. I have, for a long time now, been unhappy with it. I have rarely addressed the important things in the depth which they deserved and to which I would like. The date data is generally recorded in at least one […]

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I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately.
Yes. Yes I have.
There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, in certain […]

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What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes.
I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news.
[some kind of division]
Been watching a fair few movies, started running (4x 5x […]

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Harris, Roy. 1998. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed. Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon.
Harris, Roy, ed. 2002. The Language Myth in Western Culture. Richmond Surrey: Curzon.
Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. London: Continuum.
Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. Shimla: Indian […]

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I guess I ought to give some kind of update on my issues with Comcast. Honestly though, it’s all just highly demoralizing.
Let me start with the good. I do think that the local folks care. And the technician that came out—Will—spent about an hour here trying to get things working with both computers and with […]

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Feel free to ignore this post. I am simply testing the new version of WP with the COinS generator plugin that I have been using.
One of the main things I checked after the upgrade was whether it was working. Past posts still showed the data and the draft of last week’s readings did, too. […]

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I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 so please let me know if you notice anything wonky going on.
I need to upgrade my template probably but I do not like all the changes that were recently made to it. Thus, I’ll stick with the older version until I find time to modify all I don’t […]

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