Just. Can’t. Let. It. Go.

See, now, the problem with writing and, more specifically, editing things for a living, is that I find it very hard to stop doing this outside the office. Newspapers and magazines, with their tight deadlines and frequently cavalier usage of the English language, are a case in point. For example, last week’s edition of TNT, the traveller’s magazine, included this gem, in a bizarre news article about a woman who has been terrorising the Melbourne…

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“Just Men”

I’ll be moving offices in a couple of months. We’re only going up the road, and it’s mostly a good thing because we’ll be much closer to the station, so that’s a few precious minutes shaved off my commute, but there are still a few things I’ll miss about the current location. One such thing is my monthly trip down to see Dennis, the barber just around the corner. At the moment our office is…

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Cinema! It’s The Experience That Counts…

I love anti-piracy adverts. From those old black and white cartoons that the Federation Against Copyright Theft used to run in computer magazines in the early 80s, usually featuring a couple of kids foolishly buying some dodgy copied cassette tapes of games from a bloke at the market, through to those Simon Bates ads, the implication that if you ever so much as think about copying a cd, it means the terrorists win, and that…

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