Archive for September, 2010

Penn State University’s Electronic Classics Series Site is a suprisingly comprehensive and clearly laid out resource for clear, high quality PDFs of plays, classical works, religious texts and stories from around the world! I’m envious of their impressive collection! There should be more resources like this!

Feliz Dieciocho!!

As you may know, whilst I may be British, I was born in Chile, and so in light of today being the national day of wonderful Chile, I include a few versions of the rousing national anthem below;


Chilean Standard Version (Short, Spanish Lyrics)


Chilean Standard Version (Short, Spanish & English Lyrics)


Chilean Full Version (10 minutes!) (No Lyrics)

Other links;

Historic (1879) Version

Amazingly BT has managed to isolate itself (& all it’s users) from Google (Search), (Google Mail is fine) pulling large swathes of the Internet down with it for those users. Use a site with a Google Search API? (I.e. Twitter, YouTube, etc) then that’ll be down for you too!

I must admit I would have put money on this never happening, but it has! For 30 minutes now Google Search has been unavailable, and the knock on effect this has had on a huge proportion of internet users is significant. What does this tell us. Well firstly I’ll wager that Google will be back up for all us BT users before I publish this post, and secondly someone at BT is going to loose their job.

So at 16:28 GMT BT shut our Google access down, check by here to see when it comes back!

UPDATE: OK, Google’s back for BT users again, but it took them a financially excruciating 30 minutes + to sort it out!