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Archive for November, 2007

Using less or fewer

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

OK, it’s pedantic grammar time. One of the things that bugs me a reasonable amount is the misuse of “less” and “fewer”. As here:

The differences roll-up is this: in person, I am playing against people with higher blinds and I’m playing less hands because less hands are being dealt… and I’m generally losing money. – Vegas

Or here, in the same article:

The last reason this works is obvious. I play less crap hands.

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Apple stuff

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Something weird happened to my Powerbook last week: the display has become badly garbled, and it’s not really possible to make out any of the text on the display. Other than that it works fine! Boots up, works as well as I can make out from the screen etc. Annoyingly, an external display shows the same problem, and even VNCing in shows the same distortion on the client display.

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