Job's Prayer

I wrote the following ditty as a blog comment back in August, in response to John Birmingham's post, From iPhone to ...more

Textual Pleasures

Every so often, the bells and whistles of the graphical user interface are painful to deal with and I find myself ...more

I was sitting on a camp site pit toilet listening to a currawong warbling to its mates in neighbouring trees. It ...more

Geoffrey K. Pullman describes in his book, The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language that Franz Boaz provides exactly four words that the Inuit (Eskimo) people had for 'snow' in their language, in a forward to The Handbook of North American Indians...