sometimes I despair for the future of humanity
So I work as a ‘linguist’ for a large US software company. The division I work in makes text-to-speech and voice recognition software. I’m not a coder, I do other stuff. My job is frequently tedious, occasionally interesting, skilled drudgery, and it’s quite difficult to explain the overall position because from month to month I will often be asked to perform very different, yet related tasks. But right now I’m doing something called ‘tagging’. This
you’ve got to admit, Dumbledore’s got *style*
So it’s the biggest news item of the week. No, not US congressmen apologising to Maher Arar, nor the Conservative government surviving the throne speech, nor the wildfires in California, nor the faint hope for peace in Darfur nor even England’s crushing defeat to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup. No, it’s J.K. Rowling’s shocking announcement that Albus Dumbledore is queerer than a clockwork orange. Can’t say as
