I wouldn’t normally comment on something I read on Penny-Arcade, but I today I was looking at the latest strip and I thought I just had to say something. Basically, I don’t know what everybody’s problem with Jack Thompson is. Why do people even take h… more »

I saw this list of “Basic C# coding guidelines” and I started off just replying to it in a comment, but there are so many that I disagree with, that I’m going to do it in a whole separate post.I’ll answer all the ones I disagree with, if I didn’t inc… more »

Apparently, Google is in hot water over copyrighted material that is available on YouTube. I am not completely shocked by this, but some of the things the media companies are saying are really dumb. For example: Viacom, which owns popular programs lik… more »

Apparently, the PS3 is going to on sale in Australia at a retail price of $999.95! It sells for US$ 599 (= AU$ 770 or 130%) in the U.S. and ¥60,000 (= AU$ 640) in Japan. So what gives with the high price for us Aussies? If you want to go with the c… more »

Sydney, Australia (February, 2006) Global Language Monitor releases another press release. I was browsing the Language Log (as you do) today and I saw a link to the “Global Language Monitor” site. I don’t know who this Payack guy is, but this is a wei… more »