misspelling · Grey Nicholsonhttps://gkn.me.uk/entries/misspellingGrey Nicholsonhttps://gkn.me.uk/style/icon.svg2025-10-21T12:11:00+00:00Loosing My Mindhttps://gkn.me.uk/loosingmymind2004-07-21T17:00:00+00:002004-07-21T17:00:00+00:00Learn to spell, you troop of pillocks!
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The following is a public service announcement: “loose” does <em>not</em> mean “lose”.
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<img alt="Atop Google's search results for “loosing” is the suggestion “Did you mean: losing”." src="/loosingmymind/didyoumeanlosing.png"/>
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Yes you bloody <em>did</em> mean “losing”! Fools!
</p>No Knoppixhttps://gkn.me.uk/weblog0082004-02-20T19:05:00+00:002004-04-27T17:40:00+00:00
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The 2004-02-09 version of Knoppix (<a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/</a>) doesn't seem to want to play nice with my computer. It's probably something to do with Nero's burning of the CD; if it's as good as its proofreading, I've got no chance. A couple of days ago, when writing over a CD-RW, Nero kindly warned me that I might loose some data. Yes, <q>loose</q>, not “lose”. As in “My shirt is quite loose.”, “Did you lose weight?”.
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I'm redownloading the previous Knoppix version, 2003-11-19, using eMule (<a href="http://www.emule-project.net">http://www.emule-project.net</a>), which tells me I have another forty hours of downloading to wait. Why was it that so few people use Linux...?
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