Sup? You may or may not have noticed some disruption to Surface languages over the past two days. I run the site on a Debian linux server rather than the more usual managed wordpress site. I do this because it … Continue reading
Sup? It seems that, UC Davis, a Californian university pepper sprayed students some time back. Don’t worry. It happens. Students. Seat of learning. Pepper spray. These things go together like strawberries and cream. For some reason, the university is now trying to hide … Continue reading
A new language course is almost ready to be added to Surface Languages! The first part French language course is almost complete. I’ve not linked it into the main French page as it isn’t finished, but you can see the contents. … Continue reading
I don’t normally look at the type of search phrases that bring people to Surface Languages but this morning (as it is the first of the month) I had a look. So, I had a look at some of the … Continue reading
I’ve almost finished adding a crossword game to SL. To be more precise, I’ve added it to SL but it isn’t entirely finished. There are bugs, and all things being equal they will be fixed next week. I uploaded it by … Continue reading
I know I sound like a stuck record – continually wittering on about dictionaries. (If any of you can even remember what a record is or the origin of the expression you get a bonus). I’m showing my age … … Continue reading
I’ve added a new language language learning game to SL. For the technically inclined it uses a mixture of jquery, javascript, ruby and html, and naturally took me longer to get working than I hoped. I have also discovered there is … Continue reading
I tend to work on Surface Languages in fits and starts depending on what else is going on in my life, and also when I have ideas of how to improve it substantially. I’m reasonably sure I’ve come up with a … Continue reading
I’m writing this at 6.40 in the morning. I had read somewhere that a distinguishing characteristic of many successful CEO’s was that they got up early every day to do important ‘stuff’. This coincided with my wife leaving extremely early … Continue reading