Archive for March 2010

Quiz: Answers

31 March 2010

To score the three submissions for my trivia quiz, I followed the following scheme:[…]

Quiz

24 March 2010

Here’s a little quiz for my readers to test their knowledge: When was the Declaration of Independence signed? (Give the year, month and day.) What is the colour of pure water? Which weighs more—a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? What does Ich bin ein Berliner really mean? How many scholars in Columbus’ [...]

‘163 Innocent Old Men’

15 March 2010

Where I live, we adjust our clocks for daylight-saving time—although personally I think the government has no place nannying everyone into getting up an hour earlier. (In my case, I guess it works out fine, since it just makes all my appointments an hour earlier, and I don’t have any so very early in the morning.) […]

So easy with online

11 March 2010

Many people seem to use Mac or Linux because those operating systems are ‘more secure’ or ‘don’t get viruses’. And I have nothing against that—I want my next computer to be a Mac. But that’s not the problem. […]