My favourite word: Metanarratives series 1

Some of my friends joke that I can get the word ‘metanarrative’ into any conversation. Probably true. Warning: this series of posts may have an overdose of the word ‘metanarrative’! This first post in my metanarrative series will try to define what I’m talking about for those who don’t try to slot it in to […]

Video: A different view of Jerusalem

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHglfyQOd2s Kutiman is an Israeli musician/DJ/VJ who I first heard of when I came across Thru You, where he takes videos from youtube and remixes them to make a whole album of tracks. Thru Jerusalem, the video above was fully recorded by Kutiman in Jerusalem and then mixed to create a tour through some of […]

Tip: Skip the LibreOffice Word Count!

When you’re writing an essay with a word count to meet, how your word processor counts the words matters. LibreOffice seems to count a lot higher than MS Word, meaning your task at meeting the word count is much harder. This is probably because of the way it treats ‘floating punctuation marks’ like a dash […]