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Heading for Montana. Be back on July 1. I'm praying everything stays running until then. I might get a brief connection in about a week, and if so I'll check in. Happy summer everyone.
The OED looks at blog:
As the publication of the New Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gets fully under way, one of the major changes to the OED's editorial efforts has been the creation of an editorial office concentrating on the collection and editing of materials relating to North American English....
...The NAEU is also working closely with the new words group in Oxford, carefully reviewing the high-profile new words that are so often of American origin, and drafting new entries for words that have come to our attention. Some of the words we have drafted in recent months include tipping point, gentleman's C, weaponize, collateral damage, blog, skeevy, and perp walk.
There are lots of poorly worded reports about a new virus that infects jpeg picture files. Supposedly you can get the virus by just opening an infected jpeg file. This is not true. The virus infects microsoft windows machines. Parts of the virus are contained in jpeg picture files, but these images are completely harmless unless you are using an infected windows machine. In other words, and as usual, if you are not running windows you are completely safe from this threat. So calling it a jpeg virus (instead of a windows virus) is quite misleading.