Holizz versus the Web

I just found the worst kind of bug one can find while unit testing: a caterpillar. In my bowl.

Then I looked through the broccoli to make sure there weren’t any more… and ewwwwww!

Two boiled caterpillars in one bowl is too much for me. Eww. Really, just eww. I don’t feel like eating so much anymore.

P.S.: Firefox’s dictionary didn’t seem to include the word “anymore”, so I Googled it, and found that ocurrances of “anymore” are almost twice that of “any more”. I also found an interesting article on the subject which notes differences in usage between British and American English.

Hehe, I’m becoming rather obsessed with language at the moment. It can only be a good thing, considering my final year project is, after all, a language learning tool (well, a library with several prototype interfaces). I think I can allow myself to spend a day doing exactly what I want to do every once in a while, as long as I do my work eventually.

1. Read news (/., BBC News, OS News, etc.) for two hours
2. Shower, eat, etc.
3. Read some of Beginning Syntax
4. Go to the library to borrow The French Experience (BBC book on the subject of the French language) and Understanding Semantics
5. Read a chapter of The French Experience and a chapter of Beginning Syntax for about three hours (I’m thinking more and more about the similarities between human languages and computer languages - that is, languages designed as an interface between humans and machines - I’m not especially interested in assembly or byte-code)
6. Talk to Davina while mostly reading a resource I found today: Nihongoresources - grammar - an excellent book that teaches Japanese grammar using the Japanese terms (I still don’t know which verb group (I or II) corresponds to 一段 and 五段, and I don’t care to)
7. And now it’s nearly midnight. Bonne nuit!

百％貰う事初めて何ですよ。大学校には。Deploying Web Technologiesのもう一つのコーソワークに九十％貰いました。受けた試験も高いパーセントを貰ったらいいですね。

Last Friday I suddenly got the feeling that I wanted to learn a language (possibly because I started reading How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own by Barry Farber - rather interesting*).

* He appears to take a somewhat different approach to Jack Seward in Japanese in Action, especially towards learning the rude words. I personally believe that knowing the vulgar terms as well as the polite is important, but certainly it would be a mistake to start with the curses. My favourite piece of advice comes in the phrase I spill more than you drink!

I started with Russian on Friday (okay, I just learnt the Cyrillic alphabet), French on Saturday, Korean on Sunday evening (mostly just learning Hangul, which is indeed a great writing system), then a little Mandarin on Tuesday.

In the end I chose French. Partly because Davina speaks it, and maybe to prove a point about compulsory foreign language education (I learnt it for three years before choosing GCSE German for the sole reason that it wasn’t French).

Salut.