November 2nd, 2007 – 17:29-0700
While in Kathmandu, I met a number of Binita’s family for the first time. Maybe 50 people. Lots of characters and a lot of khana.
Outside of family, we also managed to meet Prashant Tamang. Binita was happy.
October 15th, 2007 – 00:52-0700
I arrived at the Taj Mahal with an empty wallet. That morning I had paid the driver a few thousand rupees and then paid the hotel another couple thousand.
Our driver loaned me enough money to buy a ticket. So the trip to Delhi has been a success.
October 3rd, 2007 – 14:37-0700
Just bought the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows. I always look forward to new albums by Radiohead as each album gets better. Nothing worse than band whose work regresses.
Radiohead let me pay what I liked for In Rainbows, so I dropped £10. If more artists did this, I might actually buy more music.
October 2nd, 2007 – 11:47-0700
The precedent-following Oxford University Press has removed hyphens from about 16,000 words in their upcoming Shorter OED revision, according to Simon Rabinovitch of Reuters.
Over-hyphenation is a problem. As is under-hyphenation. While ice-cream easily becomes ice cream, compound adjectives should remain “precedent-following.”
September 26th, 2007 – 22:55-0700
Katie at the TEFL Logue published her list of the top ten Peace Corps blogs. My Peace Corps blog was rated sixth. Not bad—especially since it’s three years old.
