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Oxford Dictionary Welcomes “Wiki” (and others) to the English Language

Late last week Reuters reported that the Oxford English Dictionary has now recognized the word “wiki” as an official word in the English language.

The folks at the Oxford English Dictionary perform periodic updates to the dictionary to keep it current.  Some of the other inductees from the class of March 15 2007 are:

  • bad girl (noun)
  • chef (verb)
  • claymation (noun)
  • edamame (noun)
  • Infobahn (noun)
  • technopreneur (noun)
  • tighty-whities (noun)
  • virtualize (verb)
  • undelete (verb)

It’s interesting to see what terms have evolved.  Check out the completed list from this new set on the OED website.  If you want to get all Web 2.0 about this, enhance your vocabulary with the OED word of the day RSS feed.

Podcasts

So here I am, 14 months after buying my iPod, and I came to the realization that I don’t listen to any podcasts anymore.  Sure, lots of them were a bit iffy, the really popular ones got all commercialized, but there were a few that were quite good.  My problem?  I can’t remember what any of the good ones were.

So here’s my ask of my ever-expanding audience: what are some of the podcasts you listen to?  Funny ones, musical ones, thinking ones, tech ones, anything!  I’ll also start a podcast hunt of my own, and report back here if I find any gems.

ttfn

ASP.NET 2.0 Blog

OK, OK… Those non-technical folks out there may have the first instinct to skip over this post… but this one’s more of a story…

Last year, almost a whole year ago, I was looking for some blogging software that I could run on my site that was written in ASP.NET (preferably the experimental ASP.NET 2).  Much to my dismay, the closest thing I could find was .Text, and it really wasn’t what I wanted.  So I decided I’d create one.

I started a project on SourceForge and put together the start of a plan.  I uploaded the plan to the website and then things got busy…  The project was ignored for almost an entire year when I went through the same search: find an ASP.NET 2.0 Blog solution.  I still can’t and .Text still is the closest option I could find.  Imagine my surprise however, when I went back to SourceForge to do a search, and when I searched for “blog c#” the application at the top of the search results was: My Project!

It’s slipped from the top spot this week, but this was inspiration enough for me to resume the project.  Aparently there is enough demand for a solution like this that it needs to get done…  Keep your eyes peeled for ChromiumBlog!

The Wedding Site

I’ve been working feverishly on the Wedding website for the past couple of days. This is about the 7th attempt I’ve made to get this site going, and finally opted to use another copy of WordPress to get the site built and templated.

Everything seems to be working fine except for the forms… Aparently it’s a bit tough to embed forms into a WordPress page post… ah well, I’ll figure something out. ;)

Any comments or constructive criticisms are always welcome!

Yet another developer’s Blog

Well here it is, yet another blog by yet another .NET developer.  I’m not quite sure what to do with this opening post.  I’m working on a blog project of my own.  It’s being hosted on SourceForge, and I hope to post more details of that project soon.

Enjoy the Blog!