The perks continued today with a haircut in a mobile barbers salon (it looked like a converted mobile home). Americans have a very funny word for fringe, bangs. Not only is it unnecessarily plural but it just sounds, to me at least, very funny. Looking in the OED there is no entry for the word [...]

Nothing of particular note happened today so instead of telling you about my day I shall complain. I like to read the BBC News website, it is by far my biggest source of non-technology news. Unfortunately it is broken in the US. Firstly it is full of adverts, these are easy enough to get rid [...]