Archive for July 18th, 2007

Spiders ‘n webs and a new Flickr plugin

Uncategorized, photos| 9 Comments »

UPDATE: We may have identified a bug in this plugin. It doesn’t seem to work in Explorer. Working on the problem. Try it in Firefox. Some of the original GT lurkers might recall one or two of these shots from many moons ago on the old Blogspot. I’m giving them a test run here to [...]

Disputin’ the pronunciation of Putin

CBC Radio| 8 Comments »

Call me a prickly pedant, but will someone please tell CBC radio news announcers that the correct pronunciation for President of Russia is vluh-DEE-meer POO-tin, that’s Vladimir Putin WITH the T. Some have taken to calling the man Pooooo-n, dropping the T altogether. You may say Pe-shaw – what’s in a T? Well, a lot [...]