Furiousmind

While Alexandra has the task of writing the more serious and useful stuff (see previous post), I entitle myself as the person who writes the superfluous and useless posts.To honour the title I’ve just designated for myself, I write this post to tell you that the smiley :-) was first used by professor Scott E. Fahlman from Carnegie Mellon University (see picture above). Fahlman posted it in a message to an online bulletin board at 11:44 AM on September 19, 1982. Here is Scott’s original post:

19-Sep-82 11:44    Scott E  Fahlman             :-)
From: Scott E  Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways.  Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.  For this, use

:-(

You can find much more information about this fact in this Mike Jone’s page.

If you didn’t know this, you can now impress your friends by telling them this useless, yet interesting, piece of information :-)

Yes, it’s true! We are already in 2008 and, as usual, we were too lazy to write a post earlier to wish you a happy new year. Anyway, here it is:

Happy New Year to all of you!

Now it’s time to make a summary of all the posts that I should have written in 2007 and I didn’t. The most important are the ones about the new places that we have visited. As we have written in our first post, we wanted this blog to register, between other things, the trips that we did. So, I will now leave here a list of some of the new places that we have visited and maybe I’ll get the motivation to write the posts about them in the near future :)

So here’s the list and a picture of each of these places:

1. Newstead Abbey and Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire;

2. Cambridge;

3. Halkidiki (Greece) ;

4. Amesterdam (The Netherlands);

5. Sealife, Birmingham;

6. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire;

7. and finally, Prague (Czech Republic).

Also, I should write a post about Oxford, which we have visited in 2006.

Will I write these posts? Stay tuned to find out :)