Tag Archives: words

Meta blogging

Posted on Thursday, 6. August 2020 by hmvh

Any housekeeping writing about how it’s been a while since you’ve written, or how you changed some obscure part of your blog, doesn’t tend to age very well and is seldom particularly compelling in retrospect. The exception are genres like technical or design blogs, where the meta is part of the message. But certainly the world doesn’t need any more “sorry I haven’t written in a while” posts. Continue reading →

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Marketing FAIL: Du darfst

Posted on Monday, 30. April 2012 by hmvh

A couple of weeks ago I was stuck behind the TV when programming was interrupted by the usual barrage of messages from their sponsors. And suddenly, amongst all the noise, a female voice proudly proclaimed in her German accent, “Fuck the diet!” Continue reading →

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Old text files

Posted on Wednesday, 5. January 2011 by hmvh

In the opinion of this author, mankind’s greatest achievement is the written word. And in its most basic 7-bit ASCII form, the written word is therefore nothing less than a device-independent treasure. Continue reading →

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Words, words, words

Posted on Saturday, 2. January 2010 by hmvh

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.” Continue reading →

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Results of the latest poll

Posted on Monday, 2. July 2007 by hmvh

“Blog, netiquette, cookie and wiki have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll.” Continue reading →

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Word Warrior

Posted on Saturday, 2. June 2007 by hmvh

Spam aside, every so often you receive a totally unexpected and pleasantly surprising email. No, it wasn’t that darn elusive lottery win; this one we triggered ourselves. Continue reading →

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Confirming an urban legend

Posted on Sunday, 1. May 2005 by hmvh

No, this is not a hoax nor an urban legend — there really is a place called “Fucking”. Continue reading →

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