6 May 2009

Serendipity on the internet




You know how it is- you're working away and suddenly remember that the first ball is due at Lord's in half an hour. So you have a quick look on cricinfo to get you in the mood and you find there's a small piece about when Roger Harper ran out Graham Gooch (was it really 22 years ago ?), so you look at the scorecard and note that the England wicket keeper was Bruce French and that he had a TFC game - down to bat 11, didn't get in and got no stumpings or catches. So you look up his stats and see that he's in an article about unusual injuries, which gets you to Chris Old.

And then it gets interesting - he's got a blog site which appears to be in Latin but this A level student reckons it's a bluff just using random words but I'd love to know and that he's got a restaurant near Falmouth which is where I'm going on holiday next week - I'll have to take my dictionary and look him up !

4 comments:

David said...

It's not Latin, as you say. The clue's in the second paragraph of his blog entry if you click 'read more' ('Lorem ipsum...'). This is a standard piece of pseudo-latin gibberish used by typesetters to assess the layout of a page before they have any actual content. I think it's meant to reflect typical letter distributions and so forth.

Mark Davis said...

That's impressive knowledge

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