Tom posted 25 things you need to keep in mind if you write a newspaper column by Keith Waterhouse and suggested that they apply to weblogs as well. Very interesting stuff…especially points #2, 5, 12, 16, 19, and 24.

Working on some writing, but doing it on paper, via pen. I’ll transcribe what I find to be interesting.

along hatt-baby, and such… what is this – http://www.btinternet.com/~david.st/b3ta/ ???

deracinate dee-RAS-uh-nayt, transitive verb:
1. To pluck up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
2. To displace from one’s native or accustomed environment.

Deracinate comes from Middle French desraciner, from des-, “from” (from Latin de-) + racine, “root” (from Late Latin radicina, from Latin radix, radic-). The noun form is deracination.

cormorant KOR-muhr-uhnt noun

1. Any of the seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, having a hooked bill with a pouch under it, a long neck and webbed feet.
2. A greedy person.

Middle English cormeraunt, from Middle French cormorant, from Old French cormareng, from corp, raven + marenc, of the sea, from Latin marinus.