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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/yztrbug
  2. Auden’s requirements for a poet: a literary landscape, knowledge of metre, a passion for Icelandic sagas – predictably dismayed Alan Bennett
  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 Ash
  4. ‘Only at Microsoft do “user-friendly” and “write down this password: E6fQ9UX3uR” appear in the same sentence.’ – David Pogue
  5. Earley (as in Earley Gate): ‘clearing where white-tailed eagles fly’ (http://tinyurl.com/ykgwvc8)
  6. Historical Thesaurus of the OED hits the Today programme
  7. See our job ads at http://tinyurl.com/teaching... and http://tinyurl.com/ljq5sk (collections officer)
  8. Finding ordinary books designed by Bruce Rogers
  9. The pleasures of cleaning a garden bench
  10. Tea-time contrasts. Judith: scone, jam; me: watercress, spring onions, vinaigrette
  11. This week's Oxford Times gem: 'Miss Oxfordshire voted for herself more than 1,000 times'
  12. Two very different shows: 18th-century Jodhpur paintings at the BM; Jeff Koons at the Serpentine: but both about surface and reality
  13. Edition snobbery: ‘Reardon offered him a volume of the Oxford Pocket Classics. “I prefer the Wunder, please.” ’ G. Gissing, New Grub Street
  14. Headline gem from the Oxford Times: 'Man said he was a vicar'. Add your own story!
  15. Ah, the Sixties! Having fun with New Rail Alphabet http://www.newrailalphabet....
  16. Last few hours in Maya Ubud - saw a kingfisher!
  17. Today to stunning Uluwatu temple http://tinyurl.com/d4hynb - much more impressive than Tanah Lot, over-rated backdrop for bridal album shots
  18. Where we spent Joe's birthday: http://tinyurl.com/cp9rq2 and watching the jegog at Bentuyung village
  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 Street
  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 14:4