Relocution

Just came across a very fine example of amateur podcasting, A Spoonful of Russian by Natalie Worthington of New Orleans.

Not much in it for me, language wise, as I continue to plough that rut between knowing the basics and being able to say anything very sophisticated or useful (or grammatically correct). But a really nice example of samizdat pedagogy riding the technological zeitgeist: the tone is considered and authoritative, and strikes just the right friendly note.

But my Mum’s long struggles with Russian language are on a much grander scale: I’ll definitely be recommending Spoonful to her, just as soon as she gets broadband. (Mum, sort out broadband, please!)

Subject: Elpub2007 Open for Registration
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:15:31 +0000
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Registration is now open for the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, hosted by the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 13-15 June 2007.

I was quite excited for a moment, there, by the prospect of El Pub 2007 - my first thought was that it must be a beer festival in Spain.