This BBC headline confused me for a few moments:
I didn’t think turkeys were flightless (wild, they’re not), so why the plane? Images of Chicken Run came to mind…
Bad bit of journalese there, I think. Not a great idea to associate plasticine poultry with a plane crash, however unintentionally.
Update: The BBC has updated the title to [...]
I just caught this BMW advert, narrated by Donald Sutherland, during the Grand Prix:
Pretty advert, sure, but it’s that last card, the tagline, that annoys me. Any GCSE student – let alone a copywriter at a major agency, working on a huge campaign for a massive client – could tell you that you can’t say [...]
When reinstalling stuff back onto my computer, I (naturally) downloaded and installed the latest version of Firefox, 2.0.0.3.
Version 2 onwards has built-in support for spell checking, proofing text you enter (here, for example) as you type it. Nifty.
But… the British English dictionary at the Firefox Add-ons directory claims not to be valid with any version [...]
So, we’re nine hours into the Blogathon, and reading back over my last few posts, I can tell I’m getting tired. My prose has started to get a tad rubbish, and some sentences don’t even make sense. Bother.
I’ve not been sleeping terribly well for the last few nights, mainly because of the heat and my [...]