And if my last hex crossword post wasn’t enough, here’s a hex colour word search too. Does life get any better than this? Right, no more, I promise.

Everyone knows every part of Microsoft Office is terribe. It’s well documented so I won’t launch into a rant here. However, couldn’t help notice it being extra useless the other day. I was emailing a colleague about an updated Powerpoint presentation and started my email …

Just made an amend to the ‘intro’ section.

Nothing weird about that except that Word underlined the words ‘an amend’ and helpfully offered that my grammar was incorrect. It suggested swapping the words around, so now I had.

Just made amend an to the ‘intro’ section.

It then underlined ‘an’ suggesting I consider substituting it with ‘a’. So now I have…

Just made amend a to the ‘intro’ section.

Then it stopped underlining things, seemingly happy with the result. I believe the correct response using todays grammar would be, WTF?

Noticing a underground trend for ‘word association’ threads on forums. Not new but noticing it more of late. These kind of threads are a cunning way for forum owners to bring ‘lurkers’ out of the woodwork. I.e. People happy to view but not to reply. This is low-barrier way of having a say, and when you input, you’re more likely to check back. An interesting way to see who is actually on your forum and drive activity etc.

Anyway, here are some examples, see the one at the bottom too ‘Three Word Story’.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/community/Forums/Categories/Topic/?&topic-id=320078

Average posts: 20 replies. Word Association post 4,600 replies

http://www.golfmagic.com/forum/forummessages/mps/dt/3/UTN/4834/last/1/V/1/SP/364232436629450466692

Average posts: 20 replies. Word Association post 14,409 replies (90,091 views)

http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=1253486

Average posts: 70 replies. Word Association post 1,581 replies (23,370 views)

A variation with a ‘Three Word Story’ …

http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40749

Average posts: 70 replies. Word Association post 10,494 replies (108,640 views)