Recent content by Lugubert

Regarding the difficulty to learn English, I personally can't tell. My father was in the merchant navy, which contributed to my being exposed to some English from an early age. As a kid, I just absorbed foreign (and unusual Swedish) words. I'm told that I taught myself to read at the age of 4...

Regard the 'ma' as a question mark. Look book ? You good ? It might look as Japanese is easier than Chinese, because the number of officially recommended characters are fewer than what you need to read a Chinese newspaper. But one problem with JP is that a character may have several readings...

Being a "colony" is cheating! I vote for the bootlace worm: Wiki: "with specimens up to 55 m (180 ft) long being reported, although this has not been confirmed" Anyway, I suppose the latter wins in length:width quotient.

Not a problem. I don’t ever eat according to the calendar. My youngest sister will more often than not invite me as well as our other middle sister and their respectively now fairly well extended families, for a quite a lavish dinner. (Our Boxing day is just the 2nd day of Xmas; nothing too...

Interesting thoughts, fromderinside. I'll first try installing the software again. I think that I still have the appropriate installs, including for the two Win XP machines.

Update: Following numerous exits and re-boots, now one computer pretends to be downloading but nothing happens, one got back to working, two highlight Updating but don't move and their greyed out Control displays have forgotten my name and team. According to some Folding tab, the software looks...

I don't immediately scrap computers that become too restricted for paid work. They are allowed to remain folding until they totally give up. Not a huge number of points, but "every little helps". My problem now is that some computers have latched on to a work server that for days have refused...

Former Swedish PM Carl Bildt twitters What’s next?

Don't despair, there's an alternative explanation and a cure for the Gay. Here

Do you have any evidence that "children do better with two loving parents than with one or none" or "A child with two loving parents is better off than one with only one, or none"? Agreed, anecdotally, but my two sisters and I were basically brought up by mother only; father was a merchant navy...

Well done. Interesting spread in points per WU. A quick glance at the top 6 WU producers shows a span from roughly 6 only to 30,000 pts/WU.

Perhaps I should have pointed out that I wrote in support of that suggestion.

If you subtract the Norwegian Anders Breivik, who shot 69 young socialists dead, Norway would probably be down at Swedish levels for homicides, and a homicides per gun quotient as low as Sweden and Switzerland.

When I was really young, I just absorbed languages. Successfully had English, German and French in school. Of course, very traditional teaching methods. Half a dozen years later I had to pause engineering school. I had become technology dyslextic. After a B.A. including Arabic (I had taken...

I can't be bothered to Google it, and don't know if there's a connection, but I think that Iceland is a world leader in newspaper circulation and book publishing per capita.