While looking through the latest collection of toys to add to my web site, I came across something I thought to be intrinsically useless – a program to change all the text of a page into pig latin. It was supposed to be an easy way to tell which parts of a web page would [...]

Well, they say it isn’t anyway. Before I go any further, here’s the link. This will take you to Wordnik, the latest online collaborative, er, dictionary on the internet. Is it any good? Well, sort of. Like anything hip and happening these days, it’s a wiki-like thing, something that anyone may edit and change as [...]

Maybe if you’ve been living in a cave, or as a goatherd in deepest Kazakhstan you won’t have heard of Google. Not an unusual word these days, but an interesting story. Google is now a verb as well as a trade name – it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary this year – [...]