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15/10/2026

Typo of the day (spell-check error?)

E. coil for E. coli

30/09/2026

Joke from "Printing World", 25 October 1891. An "imp" is a printer's apprentice.

"The printer's imp who lent his father's donkey to a stranger did not risk much after all. A printer is never without an *."

25/09/2026

Today's top tip

If a document has section headings that are not numbered, it is not possible to refer to the sections using section numbers. This is because they haven't got numbers. The decision on whether headings are or are not numbered will have been made already, by the publisher.

24/09/2026

In today's paper: 'deplorability' for 'deployability' and 'avenue' for 'average'. This week, dear readers, I am going ever so slightly mad.

08/09/2026

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766548

The Government should scrap the new Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme for Income Tax and revert to the previous system where Self Employed People handed in accounts once a Year. We also call on the Government to drop the £200 fines for late submissions and requirement to upload information online.

02/09/2026

Today's top tip is about using Microsoft Word.

I had some maths to edit, which because it was in a text box I didn't want to confuse matters by converting to MathType. But when I changed subscripts to subsubscripts, Word complained that it couldn't save the document. So I cut the table and repasted it and tried saving again, and Word saved the document. I have no idea what the problem was or how I fixed it, but this sounds like a useful strategy for dealing with future problems.

29/07/2026

The Institute of Physics are in the process of switching everyone to digital certificates and badges, and I have a shiny new digital achievement badge, and certificate in my married name, which is nice.

27/07/2026

Today's top tip:

Be very careful with those urls. For example, aaro.org leads to the Association of Americans Resident Overseas, but if you wanted Asian Alliance Radiation & Oncology you need to type aaro.sg

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22/07/2026

Today's top tips are on how to write well, and come from David Ogilvy. You can read them in "The Unpublished David Ogilvy: A Selection of His Writings from the Files of His Partners", edited by Joel Raphaelson, 1986.

In 1982, the original “Mad Man” David Ogilvy, sent an internal memo to all employees of his advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather.

06/07/2026

https://physicsworld.com/a/what-a-modern-day-us-declaration-of-independence-should-say/

Robert P Crease imagines a modern-day US Declaration of Independence