I’ve been playing Wordle for a while, now. 227 times, to be exact. (If you aren’t familiar with Wordle, you can read my post on it here.) I’ve been starting with the same word for a while now. The other day, it happened, the thing we all hope for…my starter word was *the* word and…
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Wordle Champion
Wordle is like Mastermind with letters instead of numbers or colours. You have to guess a 5 letter word in 6 or less attempts. You can only use real words (ie found in a dictionary) for each guess. Get a letter correct, but in the wrong position, and the letter turns yellow. Get the letter…
#ownvoices is moving on
Like everything in life, when something becomes more mainstream, people start using it as a marketing ploy. The same thing has happened to the #ownvoices movement in the publishing industry: We Need Diverse Books announced that it will no longer refer to books using the term #OwnVoices. Instead, they will use “specific descriptions that authors…
Texting codes
The codes used in texting are really a new language of their own. I mean, there are the common, obvious ones like LOL (laugh out loud), BTW (by the way) and gr8 (great), but then there are the rest which become a little more obscure…unless you are a teen in which case you have already…
Facebook furore
If you haven’t heard, last Thursday Australia woke up to a Facebook ban. All news, and pages with news, had been wiped. The history behind it is new legislation in Oz that requires outlets to pay for the news they are reporting… makes sense, news outlets need to make money too. Google threatened to pull…