I'm currently reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss. The title comes from an old joke, perhaps one of the first I ever read by e-mail. It goes some thing like this:

A panda walks into a cafe and orders a large sandwich. After finishing the sandwich he pulls out a pistol and fires two shots into the air. "Why did you do that?" asks the waiter, after the departing Panda. "I'm a panda," he replies, throwing the waiter a dictionary. "Look it up." So the waiter looks up teh dictionary and finds the following entry:

Panda: Bear like animal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

The book is sub-titled The Zero Tolerance Guide to Punctuation, and to put it simply, it's a reasonably humorous guide to punctuation. Already I'm learning from it. For eacmple the word its is a possesive pronoun ans as such does notrequire an apostrophe.

I'm slowly coming to realise why I got a D in English in the Leaving Cert. (Or should that be Cert'?)

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On a seperate note, did you know that the massive earthquake in Indonisa on St. Stephen's day has affected the length of the day? You now have 2.68 fewer microseconds each day to do whatever it is you do, due to a change in the Earths rotation brought on by the 'quake. See full details at Slashdot.