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  1. More than half the world’s 1.6 billion Internet users use languages with scripts not based on the Latin alphabet: http://tinyurl.com/yztrbug10:12 AM Nov 1st from web
  2. Auden’s requirements for a poet: a literary landscape, knowledge of metre, a passion for Icelandic sagas – predictably dismayed Alan Bennett1:42 AM Oct 31st from web
  3. ‘Whenever an author seizes on a single element and says that this is the explanation, the key, you know he is wrong.’ – Timothy Garton Ash5:47 AM Oct 30th from web
  4. ‘Only at Microsoft do “user-friendly” and “write down this password: E6fQ9UX3uR” appear in the same sentence.’ – David Pogue2:22 AM Oct 28th from web
  5. Earley (as in Earley Gate): ‘clearing where white-tailed eagles fly’ (http://tinyurl.com/ykgwvc8)11:29 AM Oct 24th from web
  6. Historical Thesaurus of the OED hits the Today programme12:01 AM Oct 22nd from mobile web
  7. See our job ads at http://tinyurl.com/teaching... and http://tinyurl.com/ljq5sk (collections officer)12:38 PM Sep 11th from web
  8. Finding ordinary books designed by Bruce Rogers4:38 AM Sep 11th from web
  9. The pleasures of cleaning a garden bench3:18 AM Aug 9th from txt
  10. Tea-time contrasts. Judith: scone, jam; me: watercress, spring onions, vinaigrette8:23 AM Aug 8th from mobile web
  11. This week's Oxford Times gem: 'Miss Oxfordshire voted for herself more than 1,000 times'4:33 PM Jul 31st from txt
  12. Two very different shows: 18th-century Jodhpur paintings at the BM; Jeff Koons at the Serpentine: but both about surface and reality3:28 PM Jul 21st from web
  13. Edition snobbery: ‘Reardon offered him a volume of the Oxford Pocket Classics. “I prefer the Wunder, please.” ’ G. Gissing, New Grub Street12:29 AM Jul 15th from web
  14. Headline gem from the Oxford Times: 'Man said he was a vicar'. Add your own story!2:12 PM Jul 13th from txt
  15. Ah, the Sixties! Having fun with New Rail Alphabet http://www.newrailalphabet....3:46 PM May 15th from web
  16. Last few hours in Maya Ubud - saw a kingfisher!8:16 PM Apr 15th from web
  17. Today to stunning Uluwatu temple http://tinyurl.com/d4hynb - much more impressive than Tanah Lot, over-rated backdrop for bridal album shots8:18 AM Apr 14th from web
  18. Where we spent Joe's birthday: http://tinyurl.com/cp9rq2 and watching the jegog at Bentuyung village2:50 AM Apr 13th from web
  19. Can you do too many temples on Bali? Probably not! But today will be spent by the pool catching up with Gissing's New Grub Street7:36 PM Apr 10th from web
  20. God as usability guru? ‘We have never sent a messenger who did not use his own people’s language to make things clear for them’ Qur’an 14:42:13 AM Mar 24th from web