Re: [LEAPSECS] while we wait...

2012-01-18 Thread Clive D.W. Feather
Poul-Henning Kamp said: Here is a nut-cracker much better than a Danglish split infinitive: http://www.agile-news.com/news-560573-Time-who-will-vote-on-the-side.html | King Charles II appointed Donald Di De Yue Hanfu as Chief Astronomer | Royal John Flamsteed will be rotating in his grave.

Re: [LEAPSECS] while we wait...

2012-01-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20120118122617.gc56...@davros.org, Clive D.W. Feather writes: Poul-Henning Kamp said: Here is a nut-cracker much better than a Danglish split infinitive: http://www.agile-news.com/news-560573-Time-who-will-vote-on-the-side.html | King Charles II appointed Donald Di De Yue Hanfu

[LEAPSECS] while we wait /2

2012-01-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
How many factual errors can you spot ? http://www.canada.com/Leap+second+have+only+hours+live/6015224/story.html -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice

Re: [LEAPSECS] while we wait /2

2012-01-18 Thread Rob Seaman
Fewer than some of the other stories :-) A pretty reasonable Master's thesis in communications theory could be worked up tracking the web of these stories. There are several bloodlines from the news services and mutations of expression (whether errors or not) that propagate to later