Neoblogisms (or simply weblogisms)

I like making up new meaningful words out of other words:

- Compromission: a compromised mission, doomed before it started
- Pleasantipathy: hiding one's antipathy behind pleasantries
- Presentipity: serendipitous windfall of unexpected presents
- Unicyclopedia: everything you need to know about unicycles
- Copperation: helping the police
- Copularity: millions tuning to Reality TV to watch live sex
- Omnipleasant: being nice to everybody
- Enigmatrix: a rather puzzling tabular illustration of platitudes
- Conglomelette: a yummy ham+cheese+mushroom omelette
- Barbequeue: standing in line for burgers in a garden party
- Barberqueue: waiting one's turn to have a haircut
- Barbiqueue: waiting for one's turn with Barbie - say no more ;-)
- Cupotearia: where you get "a nice cup o' tea" instead of coffee
- Tramportation: traveling by tram

Add your neoblogisms as comments and I shall publish them ...as my own.

Steve's adventures in home working

Adventures in home working
This is a very educational blog, from a deep thinking colleague of mine whose workstyle recently changed partly by fate and partly by choice. Visit the blog and you will greatly benefit from the variety and quality of his articles on IT and other matters.

A well-designed webspace

Elizabeth Buie's Webspace Elizabeth is a dear friend of mine and an expert in human-computer interfaces. See for yourselves. Visit her site and learn from it.

And now for an amateur's attempt

Weblocution My own webspace

Vintage report on a lost treasure

Spotlight On: OMNI Magazine *Writers Write -- The IWJ*
Deep sigh :-( OMNImag is no more. Long gone now. NEVER forgotten. I've got some paper copies somewhere, since the early 80s.

Indisoft: the answer to Microsoft

HP now offers Open Sauce alternatives to Microsoft products

A cat in Lesbos

Yes, you can call her a lesbian pussy, if you wish.

Coded messages in Pepys' Diary

Pepy's Diary
I quote: "Pepys' diary was written in shorthand so could not easily be read by a casual browser. " Let's see... He got it wrong. Reads a bit like HTML, intelligible to any browser.

Robots race across the Mojave Desert

DARPA's Grand Challenge

Robot Wars? You ain't seen nothin' yet! Cool stuff for robot geeks. Don't miss!

My latest passport photo

Stewart Warner

We once had one of these. Ours was brown. Mr Cholmondley-Warner would read the News.

Secret Delights

A poem not read ~
A dish cooked but not tasted ~
A love not consciously felt ~
A quintessentially secret, unspoilt delight.

Who knows of its existence, save for its author?
If God had not created Man, who would know of Heaven and Earth?

I am the God of Poetry!
One day, I shall create some readers.
Until then, my poems are mine and mine alone;
written to be read in absolute solitude and silence.
Secret delights…

BlackBerry jam

My BlackBerry was stuck in a GPRS traffic jam this morning. AT&T wouldn't connect me and I switched to T-Mobile to send out this trash. Maybe there was a BlackBerry congestion. A jam. Yum! Seeing me using this baby, killing time, some folk take me for a real geek. Sad people, I would say, that never tasted BlackBerry. A colleague just interrupting me to show me his PDA that does SQL and plays movies. Cool!

Philadelphia blues

I'm stuck in a hotel in Philly. It' raining and I'm dying of boredom, sitting at Starbucks after a conference and mulling over the exciting things I learned about how the Semantic Web will cure all ills in Knowledge and Information Management. Yea? From html to xml to rfd in easy steps. Like learning your KM ABC. I've 'just' noticed that even ABC is a TLA. Every f...ing idea soon gets turned into a TLA. Maybe the English language can't cope with longer acronyms. Let's try XTLA. This is a FLA, which is... a TLA. I think I'm going mad.