Who Owns the Internet?

Monday, January 6th, 2003 at 9:17 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Another war of capitalization of tech terminology has started. Should it be Internet or is it time to change it to internet? One crusader is working to de—capitalize Internet as explained in Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do.

“The capitalization of things seems to place an inordinate, almost private emphasis on something,” said the crusader, turning it into a Kleenex or a Frigidaire. “The Internet, at least philosophically, should not be owned by anyone,” he said, calling it “part of the neural universe of life.”

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Test Your Grammar

Friday, January 3rd, 2003 at 9:03 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 2 comments

Test your grammar knowledge by reviewing 15 sentences and find the problems in Is your grammar good enough to fend off critics?/a> No peeking!

LA Bloopers

Thursday, January 2nd, 2003 at 6:36 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Steve Harvey shares bloopers around the city in his column, Only in L.A.. The photos may not be there as I believe they only show photos for the latest article. Also, LA Times requires free registration. Don’t bother going there if you don’t want to deal with another sign-up. Thanks Robin Meadows for pointing me to this funny column.

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Dates and Numbers

Wednesday, January 1st, 2003 at 10:29 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Today, we said farewell to the palindrome year of 2002. Tomorrow, we say hello to an unusual date: 01-02-03, as in 01-02-2003, at least, the way we Americans write our dates. Thanks to Lockergnome reader Richard Steele for the reminder.

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