Here’s an interesting tip from Steve Outing in Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits: put an indicator in your e-mail signature whether your e-mail is private or “bloggable.” With most people owning blogs nowadays, Outing says “it’s worthwhile to make it clear when something you’ve sent in an e-mail is meant to be private.”
I tweaked my signature to [...]

An association of teachers had considered a proposal to use “deferred success” as euphemism for “fail.”
According to the Global Language Monitor: “The Professional Association of Teachers in the UK considered a proposal to replace any notion of failure with deferred success in order to bolster students’ self-esteem.”
Among the euphemisms spotted this year are: misguided [...]

I set up the blog for Miss Sun.Star Superbalita 2005. I help the staff maintain it and for that, I get to have my photo taken with the candidates:

What’s your oldest online posting that is still accessible? Mine was written in 1997. It’s a guest book entry in The Slot, a site that contains a lot of tips for copy editors. I wrote the guestbook entry when I was still with The Freeman. The entry is so old I even signed it as [...]

Google now offers basic statistics for its sitemap service. Sitemaps was introduced several months back as “an experiment in web crawling.” Putting sitemaps in websites helps the Google crawler index your webpages.

Google now allows you to check, through sitemaps, whether your sites have pages that cannot be crawled by the search engine. If you have [...]

I’ve been seeing a lot of links to meditation (Amazon link) how-tos and articles in del.icio.us but I haven’t read them until now. I’m thinking of trying meditation to release stress (my current stress buster is table tennis) and clear my mind.

Discovery Health says “meditation is the perfect antidote for the constant intrusion of [...]