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Blogging from the Country

Hi all,

Today I'm sitting in my wife's family's country house in Eastern Bohemia. I just had internet installed and it's good to remain connected over the weekend. Now I'll be able to come here more often.

Some random ramblings in this first blog entry for FY10:

• Yesterday was Independence Day in the U.S. I have often wondered why so few people call the day "Independence Day." I usually hear them call it "Fourth of July." I almost never hear "Happy Independence Day, but I hear "Happy Fourth of July" all the time. Weird, eh? A former teacher colleague of mine had an interesting theory: Americans tend to go for more technical vocabulary than the British, That's why you'll find the following differences between American and British English:
  • ACCELERATOR instead of GAS
  • BABY CARRIAGE instead of PRAM
  • ELEVATOR instead of LIFT
  I don't know if his theory is correct, but it is certainly interesting.
• I have never experienced so many thunderstorms in Europe as this year. It seems that every afternoon, they pop up from nowhere. It reminds me of Indiana. Midwestern thunderstorms are the fiercest I've encountered.
• NetBeans 6.7 is out. 6.8 is in the works. Now we get to play the waiting game to see what happen.
• Lots of celebrities have passed this year. The latest is Steve McNair, an American football star. He was murdered in his condo in Nashvile.

Cheers!

--James

Posted at 11:34AM Jul 05, 2009 by branajam in Personal  |