www.nickhodge.com

Any­one from Mel­bourne who reads this: a humble apo­logy. Yes, I was meant to be in Mel­bourne today. Due to an error in the first email that was sent out, I read and there­fore assumed* (there’s that lovely word) that the PDF: Bey­ond the Basics event was sched­uled for Thursday. It wasn’t. I am in error. Thank­fully, we can still hold the event on Thursday 12^th Decem­ber at the Hol­i­day Inn. If you were caught up in this con­fu­sion and have been incon­veni­enced, please email me.

*assume - 1436, "to receive up into heaven" (especially of the Virgin Mary), from L. assumere "to take up," from ad- "to, up" + sumere "to take." Early pp. was assumpt. Meaning "to suppose" is first recorded 1598. In rhetorical usage, assume expresses what the assumer postulates, often as a confessed hypothesis; presume expresses what the presumer really believes. From Online Ety­mo­logy Dictionary

This is get­ting scary. Now there are Star­bucks appear­ing overnight. Corner of Miller St and Pacific Hwy North Sydney, near the office in West­field Chats­wood and York St in the city near Wynyard. Accord­ing to their web site, there are 36 stores in Aus­tralia. Sur­pris­ingly, they’ve invaded the heart of high qual­ity Italian-Australian cof­fee — Lygon Street in Carlton Mel­bourne. Even the smal­lest store­front in Aus­tralia already serves great cof­fee — why are they both­er­ing? Who wants to pol­lute their caf­feine in hot water with cinnamon?

OK, this is cool. Lan­guage has never been one of my strong points. There­fore, it has fas­cin­ated me. The Online Ety­mo­logy Dic­tion­ary is a find that is book­marked, ready for future use.

You will also find me hanging out here: MINI2

Ahh, the life of a daggy spruiker

Over the next 2 weeks, I prom­ise I’ll post as many of the tech­niques shown in the recent road­show here. Tim Cole made me promise!