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New job – new blog

Lorinator — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:58:28 +0000

I’ll be blogging about my new job as Arjen’s PM in a different location, because it doesn’t seem right to do that here. You can find it at www.ayreon.com/blog. So if you are curious about what managing a tortured musical genius mastermind entails, now you know where to find out!

I’ve not finalized the design yet, because I’ve had to set it up in a few spare minutes here and there while on the road for the Promo tour. It will be prettier later.

Sometimes I hate email

Lorinator — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:25 +0000

Sorry for getting all meta on y’all, but someone keeps sending me nasty mails complaining that I haven’t responded to his emails (what a way to win me over…). The last one was so bad that I have to say something here, as my mails to this person obviously aren’t getting through.

azhantae@crappymailhost.com, you need to check your spam filter. I have replied to ALL your mails, even the last totally snotty one.

Life is too short, I tell ya…

Announcement: double-click dictionary lookup added to PLAG.

Lorinator — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:16:06 +0000

[UPDATE! OK, so double clicking probably isn't such a good idea. My guess is that far more readers will double click to select a word to copy rather than to look it up, and will wonder WTF is going on when the dictionary popup opens. Last thing I want to do here is implement a feature that turns out to be a bug. So here is an option that will still give those who want it a dictionary function. It's for Firefox users only, unfortunately. Just download and install this Dictionary Search extension. The settings below will give you right-click context menu options to look up the words you select in Merriam Webster's Dictionary, Merriam Webster's Thesaurus, and the Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary.

You should be able to copy and paste the text from here:
Dictionary 1
Search MW dictionary for "$"


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=$

Dictionary 2
Search MW thesaurus for "$"


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/thesaurus?book=Thesaurus&va=$

Dictionary 3
Search CALD for "$"


http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?&dict=CALD&searchword=$

I hope this is a solution that will be good for everyone. End UPDATE]

Many of you Play Like a Girl readers have first languages other than English, so to help you get the most from my site I’ve added a dictionary lookup function. Now you can double click any word on the site and see its entry in the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. A couple of caveats:

Your browser must have Javascript enabled.
The dictionary opens in a popup window, so if you’re using a popup blocker you may need to adjust the permissions. (I solemnly swear that I will NEVER have annoying popup ads on my site!)
The dictionary function only works for unlinked text, not for hyperlinks.
The dictionary function only works on my actual website; it’s not part of the feed. But you’re stopping by the website to comment anyway, right?

Hope you find it useful!