Space Aurora

NASA has provided this lovely picture of an aurora below the International Space Station. But you can see terrestrial aurorae on my Pinterest feed.

List of ISO-639-2 Language Codes

From the Library of Congress It’s a long list. Note from LOC – “There are 21 languages that have alternative codes for bibliographic or terminology purposes. In those cases, each is listed separately and they are designated as “B” (bibliographic) or “T” (terminology).” As a result, some languages may be duplicated. aar = Afar abk Read More…

Test Table Press

Review Good It can generate TH cells, but not the SCOPE attribute. It can import CSV data which could be useful Bad Mysteriously empty CAPTION tag. Title is in H2 tag Can’t add SUMMARY Tool allows you to merge cells (dangerous) Could not find way to insert hidden HTML code. Can’t control CSS Recommendation Use Read More…

Upside Down E is a Schwa

I believe that schwa /ə/  this is the first proper phonetic symbol that U.S. students learn. I remember it from elementary school. It’s the one pronounced like “Uh…” It’s very important because English likes to change ALL unstressed vowels to schwa, which mean that – fun fact – schwa can be represented by any vowel Read More…