http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg Parts of it are excellent Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:22:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was thinking about language again (as I often do, in a lackadaisical sort of way), and about language changes that have happened within my lifetime - how catch phrases and catch words rise, achieve ephemeral popularity, and then mostly fade away to become tomorrow's curios. When I was at ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2009/07/09/if-i-only/ On Wednesday last I attended a talk at Te Papa by Tee Morris about social media. Much of the stuff I was already familiar with - blogging, YouTube, Ning, Bebo, Facebook, Flickr and so on. As far as I know, I was the first person to use Flickr for collection ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2009/06/19/a-suitable-case-for-tweetment/ Via I can no longer remember where, this week I discovered the concept of eggcorns (something I had earlier mentally tagged as verbal mondegreens). Hours of endless fun for those who, like me, are easily amused by quote on quote unintended humour. When I don't find it mildly irritating, that ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2009/06/18/pique-condition/ So finally I get around to updating the blog. Why the long lay-off? Partly because with moving to a new job on the other side of the world - as far as you can go, without starting to come back - I've been preoccupied, and partly because my new job ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2009/01/20/im-back/ List Ev'ry Object List ev'ry object Search high and low Name, location, donor, And all you need to know List ev'ry object Make sure your scheme Will comply with Spectrum. It's like a bad dream. A scheme that will list All the stuff in the store. It would not be so bad If it weren't such a bore. List ev'ry object Make sure your ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2008/03/17/sound-of-museums-revisited/ Insider or outsider? I've always felt that I am an outsider, but is that how I'm seen? Or am I really part of the museums establishment in Scotland? Though I never aimed to be or wanted to be, and though I can't see myself as The Man, maybe that role ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2008/03/16/inside-out/ I've been extremely dilatory about this blog since April last year. The intervening months have been a bit weird to be honest. I went with my family to visit my brother in New Zealand again (and hang the expense!) last summer*. While I was there I had an interview for ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2008/03/01/leaving-on-a-jet-plane/ I see that today's (20th April 2007) featured article on Wikipedia is Yosemite National Park. So lots of morons are deleting the main article, seemingly unaware that being a wiki we can see the old versions anyway. Sigh. http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2007/04/20/thickipedia/ The bus from Yosemite made good time and actually arrived at Merced Amtrak station early. The station itself is just a small building, and there's no café - but you can buy drinks and unhealthy snacks from a machine, so I naturally made use of them. The train was perfectly ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2007/04/19/blogging-the-train-from-merced-to-martinez/ After two sunny days, today was more cloudy. Indeed it was snowing all day - just flurries, and nothing sticking. It didn't seem to me to be cold enough for snow, but maybe I'm becoming acclimatised to Scotland. Certainly Yosemite Creek was full of slush formed from the spray from ... http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2007/04/18/yosemite-falls-and-i-dont/