http://betweenborders.com Notes from Felicia Tue, 20 May 2008 01:19:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The sub-set of Mac OS X users and developer who actively prefer the platform to others = Oscar Wilde. The sub-set of Linux users and developers who actively prefer the platform to others = H G Wells. The metaphor's potential use is in its ability to make evident the often cross-purposes arguments ... http://betweenborders.com/reflections/we-came-so-far-for-beauty-a-useful-metaphor/ A mid-Winter's day. 2006/06/26 09:25 Australian Central Standard Time, to be precise. I'd just dropped my wife off to work near the entrance to Peel Street on Currie. Strictly speaking it's an illegal stop. The car is straddling a bus zone and mostly blocking said entrance. Peel Street is closed to ... http://betweenborders.com/reflections/a-mundane-menacing/ 13:11. I've just voted. Or, more precisely, I voted about fifteen minutes ago and I've just finished the walk home from my local polling station. There are an almost infinite array of things to take delight from when voting. The fact that our elections are conducted by fellow citizens, wearing nothing more than ... http://betweenborders.com/reflections/in-praise-of-voting-below-the-line/ It probably says more about me than anything else, but I've been asked the following question at least half-a-dozen times. In the interests of having a place to point future questioners I offer the following answer to the (apparently common) question: if the temperature today is 0°C, and it ... http://betweenborders.com/curiosities/twice-as-cold-as-0%c2%b0c/ The apostrophe is the most troublesome mark in all English punctuation. Broadly put, these troubles can be divided into four distinct areas: Computer-specific issues Using the apostrophe to indicate a contraction Using the apostrophe to indicate a possessive Differences between American and Commonwealth English There is a fair degree of overlap between these areas, but dividing ... http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/mind-your-apostrophes/ Some Speculations on "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" One of the things I like about the Star Wars movies is that they reward thought. If you pay attention, there are a lot of details in the films and those details fit together in ways that add depth to ... http://betweenborders.com/readings/some-speculations-on-star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith/ Take a quick trip with me back to the mid-1980s. My first job post-uni I luck out. I make a lot of money twiddling test tubes on the Moomba gas fields in the Cooper Basin (South Australia's mid-north, up near Cooper's Creek, where Burke & Wills died). Moomba is a hyper-masculine ... http://betweenborders.com/reflections/the-passion-of-the-christ-an-inflammatory-perspective/ No-one but ... http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/the-gentle-art-of-pitching/ An ABC News Online report for February 24th 2002 quotes an eMarketer claim that Some 445 million people were using the Internet at the end of 2001, with 27 per cent of those in the United States. I believe the report quoted is the eGlobal report published by eMarketer ... http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/writing-for-an-international-readership/ Standard screenplay presentation format. Ask about it on most mailing lists or web-sites or at most screen-writing seminars and you'll get a variation on the following: 20 pound bond US Letter Card stock covers 3-holes Brads in top and bottom holes Which is all well ... http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/us-screenplay-presentation/