Mooquackwooftweetmeow

Concatenating zoölogical onomatopœia since 1999

About Mooquackwooftweetmeow

Hi! This is Mooquackwooftweetmeow, a collection of stuff by Greg K Nicholson.

Entries written in 2007

  1. An American entry I came across The Ethical Blogger at …Blogger, and was reminded (via a quote from the New Yorker) that writers from the United States seem to enjoy using “American” as an apparently-meaningless adjective before almost any noun at random—which is jarring for English-speakers who aren't from the United States, particularly when the topic at hand isn't specifically American.
  2. A Quick Vignette, Using the Gimp A brief tutorial.
  3. The Poppy Appeal Have you ever seen Huw Edwards wearing a pink ribbon?
  4. Hydroelectric Given that hydrogen fuel cells can be used to run cars, why not use them to run power stations?
  5. Three Blogger bugs A summary of several annoying bugs affecting the Googlemonster's blog-publishing service.
  6. Exploding Articles Ideas and expectations snowball.
  7. Shingai Shoniwa’s socks I just noticed how similar the colour scheme at the Friday Fetch-it is to that of BrooklynVegan—this wasn't intentional. I actually picked the colour from Shingai Shoniwa's socks:
  8. BBC msPlayer How the BBC are helping Microsoft maintain their monopoly on the UK's operating systems.
  9. Whoever wrote the Job Centre’s website should be fired The UK government can't even run a website, never mind a country.
  10. The Big Brother Final is tonight, but what’s the weather like? During the climax of this year's Big Brother, some idiot decided to live-blog the view out of his bedroom window.
  11. How to write kick-ass blog posts like it ain’t no thang Copy Trizoko.
  12. Answers on a Postcard No comments
  13. How To Make Scroll Bars A Little Bit Easier To Use If I say this was inspired by the iPhone's user interface will it get me more hits? (I thought of this while reading about how the iPhone forgives sloppy keypresses.)
  14. How To Make Thunderbird Well Sexy How I envisage the Thunderbird of the future—we'll have it in our flying cars. (This is a re-publication—with a few minor edits—of a comment I wrote to Asa Dotzler's blog post about the reaction to the reorganisation of Thunderbird's development.)
  15. Hiatus The golden age of Mooquackwooftweetmeow is not upon us.
  16. Take the Drowned in Sound pledge Refuse to comment on anything rated 8 out of 10.
  17. On “on Volta” (This is the first entry I've made from Ubuntu.)
  18. Six I've been tinkering with the site again.

About these entries

These entries are pretty old—beware of parachronisms.