Bloggers Block

Now here's a thing. What do you call it when you can't think of anything to put in the blog? Does this imply that a whole heap of nothing happened today? Or was it that what happened was too boring to write about. Or was it that it all happened so quickly that I can't remember what went on. I'm going for the latter. We get a lot of this once term starts rolling. You get so involved in lecturing (loops this week) project supervision and stuff that you forget the passage of time. So, today was busy.

I've noticed a little problem with the World Wide Web. Which is concerned with the name. It is most annoying. It is a problem because it means that all web addresses begin with w. Which is the hardest letter in the alphabet to say. It is one of the few letters in the alphabet which has more than one syllable. And it has three. And we have three ws in every web address. That's nine syllables of noise. By the time you've got www out of your mouth your brain has just about given up on the idea of speaking and forgotten about saying the rest of the address. I've never met Tim Berners-Lee (but I would love to). However, if I do I would - as tactfully as possible - suggest that the father of the World Wide Web might have thought about this issue before he gave it the name it has.