Monthly Archives: May 2005

Messign up

May 10, 2005 – 2:22 am

I have a tendency to type ‘ign’ at the end of words instead of ‘ing’. I’m currently looking at a report with the word ‘Assign’ in it. I have a tremendous urge to fix my (non-existent) typo. Until I think about the verb I would be creating.

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VE Day

May 7, 2005 – 10:09 pm

Today is the 60th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe). It perhaps doesn’t impinge on the collective awareness of the US as much as VJ Day, but there is no more blessed day in European history in the last 100 years. VE Day didn’t solve everything; fighting continued in Japan until the August, and [...]

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Socialish

May 5, 2005 – 5:49 pm

I know I have at least, erm, 2 educated readers, so thought I’d post a question I’ve been puzzling over. My wife asked what ‘Socialist’ means, and I quickly responded with “I don’t know”. Now that wasn’t really true – I had some understanding about ‘controlling the means of production’ on the one hand, and [...]

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