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Writing The Long Way Around

One of the things I love about WordPress is the blog stats especially the section that lets you see what search someone performed that resulted in them clicking through to your blog. When I was contracted to rewrite all the customer facing communication for a large financial company, the department I worked for had a regular ‘Brick of the Week’ award ceremony. It was a process of rewarding the most stupid person on record that week, and the prize was an actual size sponge brick. I don’t have prizes to hand out but from time to time I shall reveal … Continue reading Search Me

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Oh my, Omar …

Writing The Long Way Around

I watched an interesting programme about Omar Khayyam last night which chimed with some of the things we have been looking at in our Theory and Authorship module. One of the first things you need to know about Omar Khayyam is that he was super smart. He was a mathematician and did something cool with the ‘cubic equation’. This means absolutely nothing to me; even after a demonstration with two rods, a length of string and a hula hoop, but apparently it was groundbreaking.  Khayyam was also a meticulous astronomer responsible for the calculations that provided a calendar year more … Continue reading Oh my, Omar …