I say “that time is not now”, yet I go ahead and do it anyway… permalinks in, and link back to the top of the page.

New blog online – Reviews link on the left is now a blog. This answers the “nix sports blog?” question. No. Make ‘more’ blogs…

Some things will be moved to those blogs from here as appropriate.

One thing I like about blogger comments: they will email me when someone comments.

One thing I dislike about blogger comments: you must be registered with blogger to post as anyone other than ‘Anonymous’.

I feel this frustration with Xanga, so I won’t inflict it on others. Therefore I am not going to use blogger comments, much as I would like to.

I look forward to when I have time to get back in here and fix up some things to do with the templates and general layout type stuff…. Things that nobody except me will ever notice.

That time is not now.

To clarify that… from the indominatable McIlwaine, grammarian extraordinaire, in the school of journalism’s style guide:

that, which

These relative pronouns are not interchangeable and writers should not imagine that “which” is the literary form of “that”. Use “that” in so-called restricted clauses.

The house that Jack built is still standing.

Use “which” (and commas) for unrestricted clauses.

The house, which Jack built, is still standing.

The first usage here is restricted to one particular house; the second is not restricted. In the second example, the clause between the commas simply adds extra information that is not essential to the sentence.

For further explanation, see http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/notorious/that.htm

hmmmm, enough time-wasting…

When I’m really procrastinating hard I like to read all sorts of blogs. Blogsurfing can be a lot of fun. Either follow another blog someone has linked to, or check out their profile (for blogger) and find a blog with similar interests to theirs.

You’ll come across a lot of absolute tripe (like this ), but there’s a lot of good writing out there. You’d think I would say a little more about the blogs I surf through when I like them, but that would be ‘doing something’, thus invalidating the procrastination. Much like this post really.

I haven’t blogsurfed as much as I’d like to lately. On account of the guilt-trips, justified though they are.

There is one I will link you to however. It’s intriguing, with a very straightforward style of writing which/that is very engaging. Some day I’ll figure out when to use each one of those…

The blog is grave digger. He’s actually a grave digger from Portugal. As he says, “In a small village from southern Europe, I am the one digging graves…It’s a crazy life but, believe me, death is even crazier.”