October 2014

It’s Halloween today, so here’s a very brief history of the holiday. A complete history would probably run to several volumes. Halloween’s a lot more than just a modern excuse for kids to get sweets. It goes back to the Celtic festival of Samhain, marking the transition of summer into winter and the night when […]

A spellchecker is a great tool – as long as it’s used in conjunction with a human brain. It’s main shortcoming, of course, is that it can’t read your mind. It doesn’t know what you meant to say; it can only tell you whether the word you’ve used exists. Even if it’s completely the wrong