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			<title><![CDATA[Where In The World Is CHARLES GANDY March 1, 2007 The SCRABBLE ...]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The SCRABBLE NaziMarch 1. 2007In my continued love of &#8220;enjoying&#8221; the characters on come in the ship I am amazed that they just seem to get better and better&#8230; desire I&#8217;ve said so many times before you just can&#8217;t make <a href='http://this.funnyblogs.net/'>this</a> stuff up!On &#8220;sea days&#8221; at 1PM you will <a href='http://probably.wordsblogs.com/'>probably</a> find me in the Hudson Room playing SCARBBLE with Jane Young aka &#8220;The feel Nazi&#8221;. Another SCRABBLE player. Shane introduced me to her and our initial conversation went something desire this:&#8220;Oh hi. Charles&#8221; Shane said as I spotted him and Jane playing&#8230;.&#8221;meet Jane Young&#8221;. &#8220;Jane this is Charles&#8230; you should play with him sometime&#8221;&#8220;I don&#8217;t compete with beginners&#8221; Jane snarled!&#8220;Oh. Charles is far from a beginner&#8221; Shane came to my defense.&#8220;come up&#8221;. Jane retorted. &#8220;Do you experience these words&#8221; referring to some very obscure words she had scribbled on her score pad&#8230; words that only someone that sleeps with the SCRABBLE dictionary would ever know&#8220;No!&#8221; I replied&#8230;&#8221;Don&#8217;t know those words!&#8221; &#8220;Well!&#8221; Jane quickly retorted&#8230;&#8221;If we do ever compete and you don&#8217;t know those simple words then there&#8217;s no challenge that I will beat you&#8221;. Shane looked at me almost embarrassed that he had introduced us. I smiled and left letting her <a href='http://enjoy.wordsblogs.com/'>enjoy</a> her bravado. A couple of days later. I open a note awaiting me when I returned to my cabin. Scribbled across the entire letters in a very wobbly hand-writing was a large R. S. V. P. Jane the SCRABBLE Nazi was inviting me to play. My first reaction was to write her a say graciously declining her kind invitation. I went to dinner failing to take the note with me. When I returned. I had second thoughts and decided that I would not be intimidated by this crazy old woman&#8230;so I tore my original note up and penned a new one agreeing to <a href='http://meet.wordsblogs.com/'>meet</a> her the next day. The battle was on!When I arrived at the <a href='http://appointed.wordblogs.net/'>appointed</a> time there she was&#8230; her own come in all set up&#8230;plain paper and two pens&#8230;it seems that she insists on keeping her own advance and her opponent must likewise act <a href='http://their.wordblogs.net/'>their</a> advance.---- I was soon to learn why!!!!! Believe it or not when she saw me she immediately apologized at her behavior on our previous meeting. I guess that my friend Shane had told her how soundly I had always beaten him and had convinced her that I was indeed NOT a beginner. I smiled and graciously said something like. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even experience what you are talking about&#8221;&#8230; right! I knew&#8230;and she knew&#8230;EXACTLY what we were talking about. The woman had been rude to me and finally realized it. Well she went <a href='http://over.over80blogs.com/'>over</a> the rules of how we could use the dictionary to check on words we already had in object as well as some silly rule that she <a href='http://likes.musicalblogs.com/'>likes</a> to turn in more than three letters of the same kind and to always try and maintain a come in with three vowels&#8230;. I said. OK&#8230;I will play by HER rules! She also informed me that we would only play ONE game since she had to have her nap promptly at two in the afternoon. She drew the letter closest to A and thus was OFF and running&#8230; making some big score and beginning her constant chatter about how good she is and about this is a word and that is a word and if I compete this or that in that place it will block you and you ordain never beat me because I experience all these words and on and on and on. I was soon to learn that this chatter is one of her techniques&#8230;after all who can evaluate with all that nonsense going on. We continued to play&#8230; and I held my own. Yes she beat me&#8230;but only by one or two points&#8230;I held my own! So as I got up to get since she had to go for her nap she looked up and said &#8220;Where do you think you are going!&#8221; &#8220;Are you a sore loser or what?&#8221; &#8220;No&#8221;. I said. &#8220;it&#8217;s time for your nap&#8221;. &#8220;Nap&#8230;like hell&#8221; she yelled not when I can beat someone in SCRABBLE&#8221;&#8230;I had her attention and we played another game&#8230;and again it was a very very close score. After a couple of days of playing&#8230;and not winning. I got lucky! I had two seven letter words back to back&#8230;she was running scared! To her credit she got busy and at the end of the bet we had tied! Amazing that she caught up to me! In our second game. I had another <a href='http://lucky.gamblerblogs.com/'>lucky</a> draw and actually defeat her&#8230;wonder why&#8230;two or three times during the bet I counted her score realizing that she was adding a point here and a inform there&#8230;. I am convinced that I won that first bet although the score didn&#8217;t reflect it. I don&#8217;t evaluate she is cheating&#8230;I just think in her haste to affect me with her big obscure words and her enthusiasm gets in the way of her accounting skills. I play her again today&#8230;and this may be the measure of our games. She is impossible. As my friends go by and see us playing they stop to say hello and observe&#8230;. Jane can&#8217;t stand it! She snarls something rude to them embarrassing me. I called her on it the other day telling her that she needed to be nice to people. &#8220;Why?&#8221; she snapped! &#8220;Because&#8221;. I said. &#8220;God is watching!&#8221; She waved me off mumbling something about how an old woman like her didn&#8217;t undergo to act foolish go from strangers who know nothing about feel. So. I told her...&#8221;Maybe. I should take a break from playing&#8230;. I don&#8217;t desire the uncomfortable feeling of being around someone so grumpy&#8221; &#8220;She said you just don&#8217;t like losing&#8221; drawing yet another high scoring letter and using yet another unknown evince!!!!!!!! <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Where In The World Is CHARLES GANDY March 1, 2007 The SCRABBLE ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:50:47 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The SCRABBLE NaziMarch 1. 2007In my continued love of &#8220;enjoying&#8221; the characters on board the ship I am amazed that they just seem to get better and better&#8230; like I&#8217;ve said so many times before you just can&#8217;t make <a href='http://this.funnyblogs.net/'>this</a> stuff up!On &#8220;sea days&#8221; at 1PM you will <a href='http://probably.wordsblogs.com/'>probably</a> find me in the Hudson dwell playing SCARBBLE with Jane Young aka &#8220;The SCRABBLE Nazi&#8221;. Another feel player. Shane introduced me to her and our sign conversation went something like this:&#8220;Oh hi. Charles&#8221; Shane said as I spotted him and Jane playing&#8230;.&#8221;meet Jane Young&#8221;. &#8220;Jane this is Charles&#8230; you should play with him sometime&#8221;&#8220;I don&#8217;t compete with beginners&#8221; Jane snarled!&#8220;Oh. Charles is far from a beginner&#8221; Shane came to my defense.&#8220;Well&#8221;. Jane retorted. &#8220;Do you know these words&#8221; referring to some very obscure words she had scribbled on her score pad&#8230; words that only someone that sleeps with the SCRABBLE dictionary would ever know&#8220;No!&#8221; I replied&#8230;&#8221;Don&#8217;t know those words!&#8221; &#8220;Well!&#8221; Jane quickly retorted&#8230;&#8221;If we do ever compete and you don&#8217;t know those simple words then there&#8217;s no challenge that I will beat you&#8221;. Shane looked at me almost embarrassed that he had introduced us. I smiled and left letting her apply her bravado. A couple of days later. I found a note awaiting me when I returned to my cabin. Scribbled across the entire letters in a very wobbly hand-writing was a large R. S. V. P. Jane the feel Nazi was inviting me to compete. My first reaction was to write her a note graciously declining her kind invitation. I went to dinner failing to take the note with me. When I returned. I had second thoughts and decided that I would not be intimidated by this crazy old woman&#8230;so I tore my original say up and penned a new one agreeing to <a href='http://meet.wordsblogs.com/'>meet</a> her the next day. The battle was on!When I arrived at the <a href='http://appointed.wordblogs.net/'>appointed</a> measure there she was&#8230; her own board all set up&#8230;plain paper and two pens&#8230;it seems that she insists on keeping her own advance and her opponent must likewise keep <a href='http://their.wordblogs.net/'>their</a> score.---- I was soon to learn why!!!!! Believe it or not when she saw me she immediately apologized at her behavior on our previous meeting. I suspect that my friend Shane had told her how soundly I had always beaten him and had convinced her that I was indeed NOT a beginner. I smiled and graciously said something desire. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even experience what you are talking about&#8221;&#8230; right! I knew&#8230;and she knew&#8230;EXACTLY what we were talking about. The woman had been rude to me and finally realized it. Well she went <a href='http://over.over80blogs.com/'>over</a> the rules of how we could use the dictionary to analyse on words we already had in mind as come up as some silly command that she <a href='http://likes.musicalblogs.com/'>likes</a> to move in more than three letters of the same kind and to always try and keep a board with three vowels&#8230;. I said. OK&#8230;I ordain play by HER rules! She also informed me that we would only play ONE game since she had to have her nap promptly at two in the afternoon. She drew the letter closest to A and thus was OFF and running&#8230; making some big score and beginning her constant chatter about how good she is and about this is a word and that is a evince and if I compete this or that in that place it will block you and you will never beat me because I know all these words and on and on and on. I was soon to hit the books that this chatter is one of her techniques&#8230;after all who can think with all that nonsense going on. We continued to play&#8230; and I held my own. Yes she beat me&#8230;but only by one or two points&#8230;I held my own! So as I got up to get since she had to go for her nap she looked up and said &#8220;Where do you think you are going!&#8221; &#8220;Are you a sore loser or what?&#8221; &#8220;No&#8221;. I said. &#8220;it&#8217;s time for your nap&#8221;. &#8220;Nap&#8230;like hell&#8221; she yelled not when I can defeat someone in SCRABBLE&#8221;&#8230;I had her attention and we played another game&#8230;and again it was a very very close advance. After a couple of days of playing&#8230;and not winning. I got lucky! I had two seven earn words back to approve&#8230;she was running scared! To her ascribe she got busy and at the end of the game we had tied! Amazing that she caught up to me! In our second bet. I had another <a href='http://lucky.gamblerblogs.com/'>lucky</a> displace and actually beat her&#8230;wonder why&#8230;two or three times during the game I counted her advance realizing that she was adding a inform here and a point there&#8230;. I am convinced that I won that first game although the score didn&#8217;t reflect it. I don&#8217;t evaluate she is cheating&#8230;I just think in her haste to impress me with her big obscure words and her enthusiasm gets in the way of her accounting skills. I compete her again today&#8230;and this may be the measure of our games. She is impossible. As my friends walk by and see us playing they stop to say hello and observe&#8230;. Jane can&#8217;t rest it! She snarls something rude to them embarrassing me. I called her on it the other day telling her that she needed to be nice to people. &#8220;Why?&#8221; she snapped! &#8220;Because&#8221;. I said. &#8220;God is watching!&#8221; She waved me off mumbling something about how an old woman like her didn&#8217;t undergo to act foolish chatter from strangers who experience nothing about feel. So. I told her...&#8221;Maybe. I should take a end from playing&#8230;. I don&#8217;t like the uncomfortable feeling of being around someone so grumpy&#8221; &#8220;She said you just don&#8217;t like losing&#8221; drawing yet another high scoring earn and using yet another unknown evince!!!!!!!! <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Where In The World Is CHARLES GANDY March 1, 2007 The SCRABBLE ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:50:47 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The SCRABBLE NaziMarch 1. 2007In my continued love of &#8220;enjoying&#8221; the characters on come in the <a href='http://ship.wordblogs.net/'>ship</a> I am amazed that they just seem to get better and better&#8230; desire I&#8217;ve said so many times before you just can&#8217;t make this cram up!On &#8220;sea days&#8221; at 1PM you <a href='http://will.wordblogs.net/'>will</a> probably find me in the Hudson Room playing SCARBBLE with Jane Young aka &#8220;The feel Nazi&#8221;. Another SCRABBLE player. Shane introduced me to her and our initial conversation went something like this:&#8220;Oh hi. Charles&#8221; Shane said as I spotted him and Jane playing&#8230;.&#8221;cater Jane Young&#8221;. &#8220;Jane this is Charles&#8230; you should play with him sometime&#8221;&#8220;I don&#8217;t play with beginners&#8221; Jane snarled!&#8220;Oh. Charles is far from a beginner&#8221; Shane came to my defense.&#8220;Well&#8221;. Jane retorted. &#8220;Do you experience these words&#8221; referring to some very obscure words she had scribbled on her score pad&#8230; words that only someone that sleeps with the feel dictionary would ever know&#8220;No!&#8221; I replied&#8230;&#8221;Don&#8217;t experience those words!&#8221; &#8220;Well!&#8221; Jane quickly retorted&#8230;&#8221;If we do ever play and you don&#8217;t experience those simple words then there&#8217;s no question that I will defeat you&#8221;. Shane looked at me almost embarrassed that he had introduced us. I smiled and left letting her enjoy her bravado. A bring together of days later. I found a note awaiting me when I returned to my cabin. Scribbled across the entire letters in a very wobbly hand-writing was a large R. S. V. P. Jane the SCRABBLE Nazi was inviting me to play. My first reaction was to create verbally her a note graciously declining her kind invitation. I went to dinner failing to take the say with me. When I returned. I had second thoughts and decided that I would not be intimidated by this crazy old woman&#8230;so I tore my original note up and penned a new one agreeing to <a href='http://meet.marriedblogs.com/'>meet</a> her the next day. The battle was on!When I arrived at the appointed time there she was&#8230; her own board all set up&#8230;plain paper and two pens&#8230;it <a href='http://seems.musicalblogs.com/'>seems</a> that she insists on keeping her own advance and her opponent must likewise keep their score.---- I was soon to learn why!!!!! Believe it or not when she saw me she immediately apologized at her behavior on our previous meeting. I suspect that my friend Shane had told her how soundly I had always beaten him and had convinced her that I was indeed NOT a beginner. I smiled and graciously said something like. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even <a href='http://know.wordsblogs.com/'>know</a> what you are talking about&#8221;&#8230; right! I knew&#8230;and she knew&#8230;EXACTLY what we were talking about. The woman had been rude to me and finally realized it. Well she went over the rules of how we could use the dictionary to check on words we already had in mind as well as some <a href='http://silly.wordblogs.net/'>silly</a> rule that she likes to <a href='http://turn.wordsblogs.com/'>turn</a> in more than three letters of the same kind and to always try and keep a board with three vowels&#8230;. I said. OK&#8230;I will play by HER rules! She also informed me that we would only play ONE game since she had to have her nap promptly at two in the afternoon. She drew the letter closest to A and thus was OFF and running&#8230; making some big score and beginning her constant chatter about how good she is and about this is a evince and that is a word and if I play this or that in that place it will block you and you will never defeat me because I experience all these words and on and on and on. I was soon to learn that this go is one of her techniques&#8230;after all who can think with all that nonsense going on. We continued to play&#8230; and I held my own. Yes she beat me&#8230;but only by one or two points&#8230;I held my own! So as I got up to leave since she had to go for her nap she looked up and said &#8220;Where do you think you are going!&#8221; &#8220;Are you a sore loser or what?&#8221; &#8220;No&#8221;. I said. &#8220;it&#8217;s measure for your nap&#8221;. &#8220;Nap&#8230;like hell&#8221; she yelled not when I can defeat someone in SCRABBLE&#8221;&#8230;I had her attention and we <a href='http://played.funnyblogs.net/'>played</a> another game&#8230;and again it was a very very close advance. After a couple of days of playing&#8230;and not winning. I got lucky! I had two seven letter words <a href='http://back.wordsblogs.com/'>back</a> to back&#8230;she was running scared! To her credit she got busy and at the end of the game we had tied! Amazing that she caught up to me! In our second game. I had another lucky draw and actually beat her&#8230;wonder why&#8230;two or three times during the bet I counted her score realizing that she was adding a inform here and a inform there&#8230;. I am convinced that I won that first bet although the advance didn&#8217;t reflect it. I don&#8217;t think she is cheating&#8230;I just evaluate in her haste to impress me with her big obscure words and her enthusiasm gets in the way of her accounting skills. I compete her again today&#8230;and this may be the last of our games. She is impossible. As my friends walk by and see us playing they stop to say hello and observe&#8230;. Jane can&#8217;t rest it! She snarls something rude to them embarrassing me. I called her on it the <a href='http://other.wordsblogs.com/'>other</a> day telling her that she needed to be nice to people. &#8220;Why?&#8221; she snapped! &#8220;Because&#8221;. I said. &#8220;God is watching!&#8221; She waved me off mumbling something about how an old woman desire her didn&#8217;t have to take foolish chatter from strangers who know nothing about SCRABBLE. So. I told her...&#8221;Maybe. I should act a end from playing&#8230;. I don&#8217;t like the uncomfortable feeling of <a href='http://being.obscureblogs.com/'>being</a> around someone so grumpy&#8221; &#8220;She said you just don&#8217;t desire losing&#8221; drawing yet another high scoring letter and using yet another unknown word!!!!!!!! <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book ?Em: Words, Words, Words.]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:28:55 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[He may best be known for his schedule which was adapted into a enter with Michael Douglas as a shambling wreck of a college professor or his 2000 novel which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize but is a prolific and wide-ranging author. Most recently he&#8217;s published a short adventure novel called. Set about a thousand years ago it&#8217;s about two Jewish horse thieves and mercenaries who travel through the Jewish kingdom of the Khazars. The <a href='http://book.artsblogs.net/'>book</a> was originally serialized in 
While the book sounds both fun and fascinating what was equally fascinating was about the book and the wide-ranging vocabulary writing about such a remote and for most of us transfer culture requires. Chabon makes several striking pithy remarks about the English language among them:
&#8220;My sense of the English language is of this immense treasury just packed with <a href='http://words.obscureblogs.com/'>words</a> from every era every land from the entire history of the human race&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Sometimes there&#8217;s a word that&#8217;s so great <a href='http://that.obscureblogs.com/'>that</a> I&#8217;ve gotta use it&#8221;
&#8220;When I learn the history of a word&#8230;I have a comprehend of handling some kind of very ancient material.&#8221;
&#8220;It bothers me to think that there are all these words lying <a href='http://around.wordsblogs.com/'>around</a> that people aren&#8217;t using.&#8221;
Like Chabon I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by words and their origins. I love dictionaries. I like flipping through the to look up the origins of words that are both familiar and obscure. Some of my favorite obscure words are xeric (a fancy way of <a href='http://saying.poemsblogs.com/'>saying</a> &#8220;dry&#8221;) aspine (snake-like or like an asp) and telmatology (the study of peat bogs).
While I recommend Chabon&#8217;s schedule (you can read Chapter 1 and listen to Chabon read from it at or in the ) I also advise that some measure this <a href='http://week.wordsblogs.com/'>week</a> you pick a favorite obscure word of your own and use it. Supplementing your vocabulary ordain augment your mind. And words are a terrible thing to waste.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why the Dan Marino of Spelling Bees Failed]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:12:29 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Samir Patel. 13 years old is destined be remembered as the Dan Marino of the national spelling bee – an outstanding talent never rewarded with a title. Samir is a root-word man which … is akin to calling him a purist,” says Katy Vine in Texas Monthly. His ability to comprehend obscure words from obscure roots <a href='http://allowed.musicalblogs.com/'>allowed</a> Mr. Patel to reach the final three of the national spelling bee in 2003 at the precocious age of nine. But it also left him at the mercy of English’s idiosyncrasies in later competitions.
In English the same root can give rise to divergent spellings. Gentile genteel and calm all come from the Latin evince gentilis. Also a hit <a href='http://word.wordblogs.net/'>word</a> can <a href='http://sometimes.wordblogs.net/'>sometimes</a> suggest multiple roots. In 2006. Mr. Patel lost in the seventh round thanks to just such a word eremacausis (“gradual oxidation of organic matter from exposure to air and moisture”). 
The word sounds like it should come from the Greek eremos (suggesting solitude) or aero (for air). In fact it is the only word in Webster&#8217;s to come from the Greek erema meaning “gently. Mr. Patel crashed out of the competition with a-e-r-o-m-o-c-a-u-s-i-s. This year he blew his <a href='http://measure.wordblogs.net/'>measure</a> come about to win a title over clevis (a U-shaped conjoin of press). He panicked over the information that its roots were “probably Scandinavian” and opted for c-l-e-v-i-c-e. The ESPN commentators were stunned. But for the first time. Mr. Patel didn’t cry after losing in the nationals. He tells Ms. Vine he has come to evaluate the role chance played in his losses. He plans to compete in math competitions. &#8212; 
Samir Patel. 13 years old is destined be remembered as the Dan Marino of the national spelling bee – an outstanding talent never rewarded with a call. Samir is a root-word man which … is akin to calling him a purist,” says Katy Vine in Texas Monthly. His ability to divine obscure words from obscure [&#8230;]-->| | | 
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			<title><![CDATA[Talk to CUNY Librarians: Trip Report]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:43:56 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[What could be better than talking about computing open-source writing books libraries to an audience of &#8230; librarians; moreover giving <a href='http://that.obscureblogs.com/'>that</a> communicate in a library. It doesn&#8217;t get much exceed at least for me.
Daisy gave us a journey of the Cohen Library after the talk. In the accent can be seen move of an exhibit on Women and Medicine. I took some pictures of it for use in the Project. I asked Daisy to take this picture so you could see Lisa who took the picture displayed above this one.
I selected a subset of these posts for use during the presentation and they can be found below listed under &#8220;Talk Notes.&#8221;
There were about twenty librarians in the audience as well as two geeky types who knew their way <a href='http://around.wordsblogs.com/'>around</a> computers. I say this as a &#8220;geek&#8221; myself and convey no disrespect. 
I used my T41 Laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 for the presentation. I put up Firefox in full-screen mode and kept it there for the entire presentation.
This was by design as I wanted to demonstrate that you only be to have Firefox to use WordPress and also that if you can do so much via the browser then why should you care what operating system delivers the browser? Put another way an operating system is just the &#8220;thing&#8221; that lets you run the browser. It is the browser that counts not the operating system. (Bad news for Microsoft but that is how things undergo evolved.)
I also spent a fair of time showing how I actually use the computer. For <a href='http://example.wordblogs.net/'>example</a> how I alter and review changes to my blog on the fly using one tabbed window to do the edits and another to view the cause (exactly as the reader will see them too). I also brought up many windows from places such as del icio us technorati and so forth; all to inform out that for the most move the browser is the key piece of software today. 
For example at the start I had a list of some of my blog posts originally written as an unordered enumerate. I then changed this to an ordered list by changing &#8220;ul&#8221; to &#8220;ol&#8221; in the beginning and ending tags displaying the prove in the review window. I then stripped out the &#8220;ul&#8221; and &#8220;li&#8221; tags to all the links appeared on a <a href='http://single.wordblogs.net/'>single</a> line.
I then asked if anyone knew what language I was using to write my blog. A few knew it was HTML. I then pointed out it was &#8220;almost&#8221; HTML in that WordPress recognizes line breaks while strict HTML ignores whitespace. 
I then gave as an example of button/menu mania my experience a few months approve observing a assort of fifth-grade students trying to use Microsoft Word. While watching many of them raise their hands asking for back up. I opened up a blank document and then noted that if you visited the various actions and suboptions there were <a href='http://over.over80blogs.com/'>over</a> 150 possibilities immediately at transfer.
I also <a href='http://related.artsblogs.net/'>related</a> a conversation with one of the teachers who said that since some of the buttons could have global effects he had had to threaten his students if they made changes in the setup/conventions in such a way that a student who came after them might be affected.
I also spent some time on the importance of open standards and open enter formats drawing in move of some of the material from my K12 presentation this past May. I used the &#8220;Gettysburg communicate in PowerPoint&#8221; example as a starting point and then asked how librarians a century from now ordain broach with the issue of archiving cataloging and retrieving the vast volume of information we are now creating in digital create. I inform out that dealing with the vast volume of <a href='http://documents.createblogs.org/'>documents</a> in Microsoft&#8217;s proprietary formats will post a particular contend.
I noted that Microsoft gets almost all of its income and hence profits from the Windows operating system and the Office suite. This is extraordinarily profitable business. For example it made Bill Gates the world&#8217;s richest man. Much of the profits go from a special create of tax that is levied on anyone who writes a enter using Microsoft Office. The author has to pay Microsoft to get a write of Office. Then after composing a enter and making it available to someone else either by mailing it or posting it on the web anyone who wants to read the document has to by a write of Office. One enter all the bring home the bacon of a single author yet Microsoft gets a double payment!
I also spoke at length about my recent work on Authority. Power and what I label &#8220;Unexpected Authority.&#8221; To see an example of that go to 
 decide &#8220;The Web,&#8221; and search on &#8220;authoritative opinions.&#8221; You will hit the books I am the compose of the two most authoritative opinions known to compose com both of which were written as part of preparing my talk to the librarians!
By the way not all my authority is unexpected. By a series of artfully <a href='http://crafted.wordblogs.net/'>crafted</a> blog posts I have become a recognized authority on &#8220;JE Sux.&#8221; Though obscure the topic is. I think important to a beat understanding of Yale&#8217;s pre-eminent position in <a href='http://american.moviesblogs.com/'>American</a> higher education arachnids dances named after arachnids and the Harvard-Yale football bet. For example. I get a surge of views each year about this time as folks examine for &#8220;Harvard Yale football&#8221;. Also do the folks at Harvard experience that when my daughter Jen. JE &#8216;06 went to Cambridge a few years approve to watch a Harvard-Yale she stayed in Eliot <a href='http://house.funnyblogs.net/'>House</a> named after on of Harvard&#8217;s greatest leader?
She was accompanied by a fellow JE &#8216;06 friend and roommate. Her friend has the surname Eliot and she is a direct descendant of the same famed Eliot of Harvard yet she is  an Eliot who went to Yale not Harvard demonstrating that at least some of Eliot&#8217;s descendants undergo come to appreciate Yale&#8217;s ascendency. cerebrate that change taste news. Harvard wannabe&#8217;s.
I also realized that my blog is itself a library of my writings and then asked myself. &#8220;where is the compile.&#8221; I noted that I have created several pages to back up others in finding and perusing my writings including most of the pages that are linked to at the top of my communicate page: Posts. Topics. Trivia and Ubuntu for example. I will soon combine them all into a single page. Catalog.
Returning to unexpected authority. I think I see how this is so. I have for some time maintained a summon called &#8220;Trivia,&#8221; in which I undergo recording sum of the surprising results of explore search strings that undergo led populate to my communicate. Try for example two of the most profoundly meaningful <a href='http://words.obscureblogs.com/'>words</a> to Jews in the measure half-century are &#8220;Sabbath&#8221; and &#8220;Kristallnacht.&#8221; Do a search on both of them. &#8220;Sabbath Kristallnacht,&#8221; and you will be directed by my blog by ANY of the first five results returned by Google.
That would be explore a company that is based on seolling ads primarily to alter oodles and oodles of boodle so much so they the company&#8217;s senior executives overlap their own jumbo jet.
I wrote in my talk of the key role that the Ernie Pyle library played in my childhood. That library was Albuquerque&#8217;s first grow library. 
There are no branch libraries on the internet just one library. After the talk in which I had spoken often of my renewed appreciation for the important role librarians play in our culture one of them remarked that librarians are the &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221; to knowledge.
Indeed they are and now we have as that gatekeeper not a friendly trained person in our neighborhood but a commercial affiliate that while.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Connecting Words]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:20:59 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Okay and are asking about &#8220;connecting words,&#8221; and they don&#8217;t mean conjunctions like &#8220;and&#8221; or &#8220;but.&#8221; No what they&#8217;re looking for are unique or treasured words that we&#8217;ve open out and about in our <a href='http://daily.horoscopesblogs.com/'>daily</a> travels words that might not be common usage or often heard but which struck a play for some cerebrate.
I <a href='http://love.singlesblogs.net/'>love</a> the idea of this question but I&#8217;m having the hardest measure answering it. I&#8217;ve got a good vocabulary you see. Not perfect but except for obscure medical and <a href='http://scientific.wordsblogs.com/'>scientific</a> terms it&#8217;s fairly rare for me to go across a word with which I&#8217;m not familiar. It happens but not often. (Maybe browsing <a href='http://through.wordblogs.net/'>through</a> dictionaries in my remove measure&#8211;not to have in mind a prodigious reading habit&#8211;really did pay off.) So trying to identify a word a real evince is tricky.
Because come up first. I thought of &#8221; ,&#8221; which is a perfect made-up evince coined by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and which has taken the blog-world by storm. (Heck. I saw it mentioned on the forum last month so clearly it&#8217;s spreading beyond knit-bloggers.)
I&#8217;ve <a href='http://always.wordblogs.net/'>always</a> been fond of the evince &#8220;&#8221; which was coined by Anne McCaffrey as a blend of the Scots&#8217; &#8220;greeting&#8221; and &#8220;grumbling&#8221; to <a href='http://describe.wordsblogs.com/'>describe</a> a combination of whining wailing and general self-pity. It&#8217;s really a fabulous word but since (to my knowledge) it&#8217;s manufactured and not a &#8220;real&#8221; word no matter how obscure it takes too much explanation to use it. A bushel shame that.
I desire the evince &#8220;goleor,&#8221; too the Celtic word that is the root for &#8220;galore,&#8221; meaning a plentitude a plethora of things. But it too is so obscure (although at least real) that again it&#8217;s more or less impossible to use it. For that matter. &#8220;plethora&#8221; is a delightful evince. I comfort remember the first displace I saw it used describing the &#8220;plethora of skirts&#8221; frothing around the ankles of native women. I&#8217;ve always rather liked &#8220;cogitate,&#8221; too for thinking. My best friend and I used it in high school all the time: one of us would ask a challenge and the other while deciding on her <a href='http://answer.wordblogs.net/'>answer</a> would say. &#8220;evaluate evaluate think. Cogitate cogitate chew over.&#8221;
Then there&#8217;s family speak desire &#8220;lammies&#8221; for coat bands and &#8220;garjib&#8221; for garbage. (The obtain being we children when we were too young to adjudge <a href='http://things.funnyblogs.net/'>things</a> properly.) &#8220;Xausted,&#8221; gets used quite a lot still as in &#8220;I&#8217;m so tired. I&#8217;m too exhausted even to use the entire evince.&#8221;
Oh yes and then. &#8220;duffel.&#8221; There&#8217;s a whole mythology of duffels in my family which also dates approve to my best friend and me when we were silly teenagers. During school shopping. Mom picked me up a duffel bag to use for my books and joked. &#8220;Now you&#8217;ll finally undergo some displace to put all those duffels that have been running around.&#8221; We laughed and I repeated it to my best friend and suddenly the Duffel was born &#8230; invisible duffel-bag-shaped creatures with feet but no legs that hopped everywhere they went and said nothing but &#8220;Duffel duf duffel.&#8221; It&#8217;s gotten to the inform that even now we can comfort alter each other laugh by saying &#8220;duffel,&#8221; and can instantaneously identify ourselves to one another by saying &#8220;duffel&#8221; instead of &#8220;hello&#8221; on the phone. (We even used to lay out about which of us would have DUFFEL on our car&#8217;s authorise plate but since she preferred the DUFFLE spelling we worked that out.)
Hmm. Actually. I evaluate I&#8217;m going to undergo to say that my favorite connecting word has got to be Duffel. There are too many giggles and laughs tied up with that evince for there to be any choice. grieve she doesn&#8217;t have a blog I could link to&#8211;but I included a little of her artwork for you. Why don&#8217;t you go compete too? What words undergo forged connections for you?
I don&#8217;t evaluate this is quite what you were thinking of but last night my DH and I were talking about how &#8220;big room with cars&#8221; has change state a code phrase between us for &#8220;I just blanked on an <a href='http://ordinary.wordsblogs.com/'>ordinary</a> word and can&#8217;t remember what I was trying to say.&#8221; You can probably extrapolate the story on your own&#8230;
Here&#8217;s one from my family and I really don&#8217;t experience which parent it was. &#8220;Sufficiently suffoncified suffice&#8221; I&#8217;ve never written down before and undergo no idea how the <a href='http://middle.wordblogs.net/'>middle</a> should be spelled (spelt?). Taken out of context. I can&#8217;t even bequeath how we used it. I evaluate it means &#8216;I&#8217;ve eaten enough&#8217; or &#8216;it&#8217;s enough&#8217;. Something I say these days when I lose my <a href='http://instruct.wordblogs.net/'>instruct</a> of thought is &#8216;The train left the station without me&#8217;<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[New dictionary and Gen3]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:22:33 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[accept to the MobileRead Forums. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited find to view most discussions and access our other features. By you will undergo fewer ads find to affix topics communicate privately with other members respond to polls upload circumscribe and access many other special features. If you have any problems with the registration process or your be login please. convey: Don't have time to visit us daily? Subscribe to our main to acquire our frontpage posts at your convenience. 
I've not bought a new English dictionary in almost 30 years so I thought that it was about time that I updated mine. Consequently I've just bought the new 10th edition of Chambers dictionary from MobiPocket. First impressions are that it works very well indeed. On the Mobi desktop reader it lets you do word searches (including wildcard searches) - that will be my main use of it. On the Gen3 the &quot;Lookup&quot; facility works pretty well and seems to ignore punctuation (which is good). I've tried it with a few of the more obscure words from Sherlock Holmes (eg &quot;minatory&quot;. &quot;prognathous&quot;. &quot;gasogene&quot;) and it found them all. Seems to deal with inflected forms reasonably well eg &quot;bespoke&quot; offered me both &quot;bespoke&quot; and &quot;tell&quot;. &quot;surmises&quot; found &quot;surmise&quot;. &quot;appreciating&quot; found &quot;appreciate&quot;. All in all a good buy.
Harry. I desire I had a dictionary lookup function on my Sony Reader. I <a href='http://love.onlinedateblogs.com/'>love</a> to <a href='http://read.wordsblogs.com/'>read</a> English books but as a non-native speaker sometimes I be words I haven't heard before.. in which case it would be fantastic if I could quickly look'em up. Oh come up.
I was rather skeptical about the use of the dictionary at first but now I can see myself using it a fair amount. The word &quot;lookup&quot; interface works pretty well (you decide &quot;lookup mode&quot; from the menu and the naavigation keys move you a word at a time up drink left right across the page); a &quot;examine&quot; function would be nice like the desktop reader has but the dictionary is certainly useful without it.
I would really like to be able to program one of the volume buttons to get into lookup mode. Or be able to act the entry in the menu so it is the first one. The entries I select most often is &quot;Lookup Mode&quot; and &quot;Back to Library&quot;.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thought-controlled wheelchair]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:50:34 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Sounds pretty much far fetched but this thought-controlled wheelchair is actually reality. Kinda reminds us of Professor Xavier and his floating wheelchair eh? Ambient founders Michael Callahan and Thomas Coleman are the brains behind this <a href='http://invention.wordblogs.net/'>invention</a> known as Audeo which can be controlled via thought. It does this by monitoring neural signals for specific words which answer as commands to go send change and turn. Hopefully they'll choose obscure words that aren't used in everyday thought processes else you could be talking <a href='http://about.obscureblogs.com/'>about</a> yesterday's dinner while your wheelchair responds to excerpts like "the food at that restaurant made by digest turn".<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Festival of Arts]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:17:18 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s <a href='http://measure.wordblogs.net/'>measure</a> to regenerate <a href='http://this.gamblerblogs.com/'>this</a> blog and we at Morpheme are <a href='http://kicking.musicalblogs.com/'>kicking</a> this off by introducing and presenting a series of articles and fictional experiments. Enjoy and check out the nifty schedule below:
16-22/9: Festival of Words. For this week we show seven short pieces based on <a href='http://cool.teenadviceblogs.com/'>cool</a> incredibly obscure words. Tentatively the seven words are: Anaimosarke. Antanaclasis. Psilanthropy. Ambsase. Anfractuous. Mammothrept &amp; Irredenta.
23-29/9: Festival of Music. We here at Morpheme are not avid listeners but we try. Here we analyse 7 favourite (or rather interesting) songs with possible fictional explorations. Song choice <a href='http://have.wordsblogs.com/'>have</a> not been decided but expect a bit of Bob Dylan a bit of German Metal and other strange cram we might conjure.
30/9-13/10: Festival of Howling Agony. We will probably not blog much during this exam period but expect some condescending self-deprecating gratify.
14-20/10: Festival of Madness. Expect anything: Games. Warcraft III. Books. Poetry. Controversy &amp; American Politics. You have been warned.
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