The Fergy 8 people will probably be hitting the NSW/South Australian border today. The whole system is working flawlessly. Lets see how it comes with Sunday morning where the Web Site will be mentioned on the ABC Radio programme ‘Australia All Over’… Sunday afternoon I am visiting an ex-boss of mine from when I was doing industrial experience at Uni, and I will have to just keep an eye on things from there…

News.Com.Au has a strange story… A woman is claiming to police that she is Azaria Chamberlain. I will not comment apart from drawing peoples attention to the story.. Which I have not yet seen in the SMH.

Also in yesterdays news, my mother took her thesis to the book binders – and early next week will be handing the bound copies in… Then they get examined within 2-3 months and then she hears back about any changes that need to be made…

One of the things that interests me with language is how people write things that they would say. That is, we might say “Ten Dollars”, but write it “$10”, or more correctly, “Dollars ten”. And people for whom english is a second language might write it at “10 $”. Just one of the strangenesses of the english language.

The “Yes Prime Minister” show used to mention ‘irregular verbs’ occasionally… Normally they would be like Jump, Jumping and Jumped. In the TV show case it was ‘The Prime Minister is about to give an off the record briefing to the press’, ‘His Assistant is leaking documents to the press under instructions’, ‘The leader of the opposition broke the official secrets act and should be sent to gaol for telling that to the media’…