The release schedule for Ubuntu 14.04 – the next long term support (LTS) release of this popular Linux distribution – has been published on the Ubuntu wiki.
According to the schedule, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS should be released in mid-April 2014.
This blog has before drawn attention to the difficulty of devising an apposite newspaper headline (posts passim).
No such troubles beset the Bristol Post as shown by the following headlines from today’s News section of the online version.
One question remains: one’s written in English, but in what language are the other two written?
Just minutes after I’d tweeted the existence of this post, the headlines to the reports were changed, such is the power of blogging (and such is the care and attention the Bristol Post lavishes on its online version. Ed.). 🙂
Update 07/09/13: I’ve since been informed as follows by the Post’s Vicki Mathias regarding what occurred:
I think it might be subeditors’ code for I’ll put a headline in here later- uploaded automatically by mistake due to technical quirk.
The courts and tribunals interpreting contract being implemented by Capita Translation & Interpreting continues its disastrous course if one listens to anyone except Ministry of Justice civil servants or ministers (posts passim).
Below is a tweet from yesterday posted by London-based barrister Mary Prior.
No further comment is necessary.
This weekend marks the start of the competition for the FA Cup, the most prestigious trophy in English football, with the start of the preliminary round, when all the amateur teams in the local leagues around the country have their chance of a cup run for glory, i.e. it’s the round where all the Davids battle it out for a chance to challenge Goliath.
By way of an example, Market Drayton Town, the team from the town of my birth, has a home tie today against Kidsgrove Athletic, which kicks off at 3 pm.
The FA website has a list of fixtures for the preliminary round, which runs to many pages, a screenshot of which is shown below.
However, if – as many people do – you relied on the BBC as a source of sports news, you’d be completely unaware of the existence of the FA Cup preliminary round, as proven by the following screenshot taken today at the same time as the above FA screenshot.
That’s right! According to Auntie, there are no FA Cup fixtures for the next 7 days.
The BBC likes to base its reputation on its reliable and accurate coverage of news and events.
Is this reputation undeserved? Answers in the comments below please.
The Bristol Post website carries an initial report today of a fire last night at Ashton Court, a 17th century mansion house in north Somerset owned by Bristol City Council.
Allegedly penned by someone called DanielEvans1, the third paragraph of the piece reads as follows:
A total of six Avon Fire and Rescue pumps and an aerial appliance were need to extinguish the fire in the early hours.
An inability to conjugate the verb ‘to need’ correctly is evidently no barrier to employment as a journalist at the Temple Way Ministry of Truth. 😉
I’ve seen this fruit van a few times on Cumberland Road in recent weeks. At the foot of the offside door is a message to the light-fingered with a penchant for bananas.
Only in Bristol… 🙂
So far this blog has recorded a dearth of Capita T&I interpreters for the jobs they’re supposed to be doing in the country’s courts (posts passim).
Now just for a change we’re pleased to report a surfeit, as shown in this tweet (screenshot below).
Are Capita T&I interpreters like buses – one waits for ages and then 3 turn up at once? Or do Capita’s finest believe in safety in numbers? Is any comment on this amazing development forthcoming from Helen Grant MP, the Minister for Victims and the Courts?
I think we should be told.
The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 4.1.1, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This is the first minor release of the LibreOffice 4.1 family, which features a large number of improved interoperability features with proprietary and legacy file formats.
According to the developers, the new release is a step forward in the process of improving the overall quality and stability of LibreOffice 4.1. However, for enterprise adoptions and production environments, The Document Foundation recommends LibreOffice 4.0.5.
LibreOffice 4.1.1 is available for immediate download from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Change logs are available at the following links: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.1.1/RC1 (for bugs fixed in 4.1.1.1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.1.1/RC2 (for bug fixes in 4.1.1.2).
Reposted from RPSI Linguist Lounge.
Barbara Hecht writes:
I represented a 52 year-old woman of good character needing an interpreter, first appearance 10 am start – she was in virtual court so she was in the police station. The interpreter was there early and promptly (and spoke the language required well) but…there was a part heard trial in another court where no interpreter had been arranged. So they took my interpreter, and my woman in the police station who had already been there from 6 pm the night before had to wait.
When I raised this with the trial DJ and said she was diabetic, she took the view that she could wait a bit because the police would look after her and carried on hearing submissions a bit longer in the part heard trial. A replacement interpreter was booked to come at 1.45 pm. When I found the replacement interpreter at 2.15 pm because the matter was put back to 2.30, he said he had to go!
When I volunteered many years ago on producing Planet Easton – a community newspaper for my part of Bristol – one of the hardest tasks for the editorial team was devising headlines for articles.
However, one unnamed employee at The Argus in Brighton deserves a special mention for the example below, a fine example of the use of alliteration and homophones.
Beat that, Bristol Post! 🙂