Wed, 24 Oct 2007
Aaargh! The verbing of nouns // at 17:30
Can someone take a cluestick to the newspeople who write gibberish such as the following:
The 2.54pm Williamstown train was expressing from Footscray to Spotswood at the time of the accident.
and:
...said he heard the train sounding its horn as it expressed through the level-crossing.
Go to any dictionary you can find and look up the verb expressing, there is only one definition that I know and it aint the one that they've made up, nor is it an act that a train is likely to perform!
Go floppy! // at 17:00
Something that's been bugging me for a while as I deal with ridiculously large amounts of disk space:
Assuming a 2M capacity of an unformatted "1.44M" 3.5" disk which has physical dimensions of 3x90x94mm; 1T of data is a stack 1572m long, or 13.3 cubic metres of disks, or if used as floor tiles, enough to cover 4435 square metres.
