It’s been a loooong time since I posted, but a lot has happened…. I’m now the Electronic Media Manager for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Wow, what a mouthful. But it’s an exciting opportunity to work with an organization that does good things, all while allowing me the freedom to really develop their electronic communications - audio, video, imaging, etc. A whole new website will be forthcoming! (more…)
Ok, it’s been so long since I posted anything that I forgot my username and password. Of course, I wrote them down, but it didn’t help that I had written the wrong username. Oh well.
Anyhow, on to spellcheck. I love spellcheck, but not for the reason that you might think. I’m pretty good at spelling and spellchecking is generally more useful to me for catching typos. But a lot (notice that ‘alot’ is not a word) of words that I use in technical documents are not in MS Word’s dictionary, so it will make suggestions. Sometimes these are hilarious.
Today I was updating my resume and I wanted to include my experience with WordPress, the blogging software I use to write this stuff. Well, my edition of Word was born before blogging, because spellcheck didn’t recognize the word. Here is what Word suggested for ‘blogging’:
bogging
logging
slogging
clogging
flogging
Hmmm. Maybe spellcheck is smarter than I thought…
Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes; Molly Ivins died a few days ago, age 62, which is what I’d call a Texas-size tragedy. It doesn’t come as a great surprise - she’s been up-front about her battle with breast cancer since she was diagnosed. But that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t way too soon.
Molly Ivins is - was - a political columnist, a Texan, who wrote for the Texas Observer, the New York Times, the Dallas Times-Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and numerous other publications. I first heard of her when her 1992 collection of articles, Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?, was being promoted. Reading a few excerpts (more…)