• I’ve spent the afternoon setting my mum up with her first laptop. She’s going to be Eighty Four tomorrow – a real silver surfer!

    She’s got a Facebook account, knows how to get to times online and has just about got the hang of point and click. I guess there’ll be a lot of handholding for a while. Already she’s being bombarded with Facebook emails as my niece tags her in photos. Slowly, slowly does it – but all power to her for having the guts to embrace the internet at all.

    Wait till I get her videoconferencing with her relations in Norway – There’ll be no stopping her.

  • HYPERBOLE

    Pronounced High-per-boh-lee for some reason. Hyperbole is guff – stuff that advertising agents and politicians produce to dazzle us and make us think something is what it isn’t. The more current word, Hype, is a shortening of the word.

    A load of exaggeration that is not really meant to be taken literally, but often is. Basically it is the art of selling.

    Learn a new word every day.
    Repeat it and remind yourself what it means at least three times in a day.
    Try to use the word in conversation or writing today.
    Get a dictionary and look words up.

  • In case anyone cares, my website is down. My ISP, who I am now completely fed up with, reset my automatic repayment settings, so I lost my site and was greeted with an account suspended page.

    I reste my domain name to automatic renewal and they ignored that too, so I had to rush in a manically renew my domain name before anything happened to it. I’m in the process of moving to a new ISP and hope I’ll be up and running soon. All the data is uploaded, it’s just the nameservers that need to be changed over now. Being New Year, I don’t know how long that might take. I’m not going to name and shame until I move all my other domain names over to the new ISP.