Pretty things are pretty

I'm a blogger. I blog. I am the one who blogs.

Just reminding you all of that, in case you had forgotten.

Thoughts on public transport

Forgive me, Internet, for I have sinned. It's been four months since my last blog post...

The best fact I heard today

From an email thread complaining about stores measuring the unit of price-per-unit in grams, ounces, and units for different items, making it harder to compare prices:

Assuming direct control

A few days ago, I was messing around with the OS X `say` command. While browsing the man pages, I noticed that you could pass an argument to change the voice. And then, well, this happened.

My shell-fu is weak, so please, feel free to speak up if you have any improvements!

I'm told that Linux users can use `espeak` as a replacement for `say`, but I can't promise that you will have Harbinger-like creepy whispers.

Language and thought

I'm baaaaack!

Late New Years' resolutions

A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing Hacker News when I happened upon Matthew Might's 12 resolutions for programmers. Eschewing the obvious "1920x1080" jokes, I read on, and realised that he actually had some very good points.

Linguistic rant time

English has been vexing me recently.