In the Empah, the royal baby is 8 lb 3 oz, thank you

The Cambridges with their new daughter in her first public appearance; photograph from the Press Association.   I haven’t followed the news of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s new baby much, but I was interested to note that when Kensington Palace announced her weight, it was in Imperial only. None of this foreign metric […]

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A whinge about whinging

I’ve seen this lament on a few more places now: why bother having a comment box?    We’ve just had someone tell us at Lucire that there is no such person as Princess Catherine. Well done. We all know that technically there is no such person, if one is referring to the wife of Prince […]

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LOL, Wag, flat white added to Oxford English Dictionary

A few new words and meanings—45,437 to be exact—have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, report the mainstream media.    LOL is one, which I have always taken to mean little old lady, and have almost always used it in that context.    Turns out that that was what the acronym originally stood for, […]

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If Google Images does it, is it legal?

If you pop down to the comments at an earlier post, you’ll find that a chap called Mark was very upset I used a thumbnail (100 pixels wide, 67 high) of one of his photos. In fact, I’ve done exactly the same in this post with another gentleman’s work (albeit this one is under Creative […]

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