Unfortunately, the local council's refuse collection department had their Garden Waste Collection scheduled today so I was awoken at 8.30am by the garbage truck, wheely bins being dragged around and the resulting 'dog chorus' from the 6 or so neighbourhood dogs barking like crazy. As soon as it happened I thought of 'dog chorus' which led to 'frog chorus' and from that point I had the Paul McCartney song from my childhood stuck in my head - argh! So it was time to get up and distract myself, lol.
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Thursday, 5 August 2010
Random is as Random Does
I sat up until 3am this morning working, latest I've done in a while, but I started on something and wanted to get it finished before going to bed, so 3am it was, lol.
Unfortunately, the local council's refuse collection department had their Garden Waste Collection scheduled today so I was awoken at 8.30am by the garbage truck, wheely bins being dragged around and the resulting 'dog chorus' from the 6 or so neighbourhood dogs barking like crazy. As soon as it happened I thought of 'dog chorus' which led to 'frog chorus' and from that point I had the Paul McCartney song from my childhood stuck in my head - argh! So it was time to get up and distract myself, lol.
I got a shock looking into domain names last night. The one I particularly wanted to purchase is parked and being offered at $1,000!!!! Quite ridiculous that people/companies can do that!! A similar thing is done in the UK with 'private' car registration numbers. I bought a second hand car once that already had a private plate on it. Apparently, the husband had bought the plate for his wife's car and when the two were splitting up, she decided to leave the registration with the car when selling it to spite him. It's normal in the UK for a car to keep the same number for it's whole lifetime, no matter how often it changes hands. But, I didn't particularly want a registration number that read "H4 RFC" since RFC stands for "Rangers Footbal Club". For one thing I just don't like football (soccer) and for another, I was actually told of someone with a "CFC" (Celtic Football Club) registration number having their car vandalised because of the plate. Because my registration was still the standard format (letter, number, letters) it wasn't too valuable but I did sell it for £250 and got a new, basic registration for around £40, a nice £210 towards the cost of the car.
Unfortunately, the local council's refuse collection department had their Garden Waste Collection scheduled today so I was awoken at 8.30am by the garbage truck, wheely bins being dragged around and the resulting 'dog chorus' from the 6 or so neighbourhood dogs barking like crazy. As soon as it happened I thought of 'dog chorus' which led to 'frog chorus' and from that point I had the Paul McCartney song from my childhood stuck in my head - argh! So it was time to get up and distract myself, lol.
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Busy, busy
Once again I have found myself incredibly busy working on zazzle with very little time for anything else - get a life girl!! I started an article to post here last week and still haven't gotten back to finish it, maybe soon, lol. But I'm pleased to say that my efforts are beginning to pay off. In the space of 7 days I had sales 4 days in a row, then I skipped a day, and then I had three sales in one day. It may not sound like very much, but as a relative newbie it's pretty good going.
On top of that I got my second "Today's Best Award" for one of the 300+ Damask Wedding Stationery designs I added to the Artform The Heart store. The designs all use templates that are to some degree transparent so that the customer can change the background color for an almost unlimited number of different effects. I then noticed that I have a t-shirt from the same store featured on the "Vector T-shirts" frontpage and from the Animatastic store, a feature on the "Funniest T-Shirts Ever" frontpage, wow! Whilst I'm still puting in WAY more effort than I am receiving rewards, I still hope and believe that some day my stores will be successful!
Sold:
Train Birthday Card on the .com site
Train Birthday Card on the .co.uk site
Train Birthday Card on the .ca site
NO cold calling Door Sticker on the .com site
NO cold calling Door Sticker on the .co.uk site
NO cold calling Door Sticker on the .ca site
Edit 17th July
I just found out that I received another TBA award for one of my Wedding Album binders:
On top of that I got my second "Today's Best Award" for one of the 300+ Damask Wedding Stationery designs I added to the Artform The Heart store. The designs all use templates that are to some degree transparent so that the customer can change the background color for an almost unlimited number of different effects. I then noticed that I have a t-shirt from the same store featured on the "Vector T-shirts" frontpage and from the Animatastic store, a feature on the "Funniest T-Shirts Ever" frontpage, wow! Whilst I'm still puting in WAY more effort than I am receiving rewards, I still hope and believe that some day my stores will be successful!
Sold:
Train Birthday Card on the .com site
Train Birthday Card on the .co.uk site
Train Birthday Card on the .ca site
NO cold calling Door Sticker on the .com site
NO cold calling Door Sticker on the .co.uk site
NO cold calling Door Sticker on the .ca site
Edit 17th July
I just found out that I received another TBA award for one of my Wedding Album binders:
Friday, 2 July 2010
Funny, strange & downright confusing place names.
Another one of those random thoughts that pop into my head!! I was thinking of some Scottish towns annd villages that have really bizarre spellings for their names and the confusion that it causes. Case in point - Milngavie. Anyone who doesn't know would pronounce it "mill-n-ga-vee" but it's actually "mull-guy". Could be confusing if one were to tell a visitor to Scotland to take the train to "mull-guy" and all they saw on the station signs was Milngavie!!
I know of one or two other confusing places nearby to where I live and I thought I'd look around for some more to compile a list. So here it is:
1. Kilncadzow, pronounced "kill-caig-ee". One of my particular favourites, lol.
2. I have to add this as my fiance always gets it wrong - Edinburgh. He pronounces it as he would Pittsburgh but it's actually "ed-in-burr-uh" or "ed-in-burr-oh" depending on whether or not you're posh, lol.
3. Culross and Culter are both pronounced with a "coo" but in the case of Culross, the 'l' is silent.
Moving away from Scotland now:
4. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales. I won't even attempt to guess how to pronounce it!!
5. My fiance's home sate: Arkansas. Most of my family pronounce it exactly how it's spelled (I do too in my head when I'm writing/typing it, lol) but as most people know it's actually pronounced "are-can-saw".
Some fun names rather than mis-pronounced ones:
6. Okay, Oklahoma
7. Nameless, Tennessee
8. Girdletree, Maryland
9. Back to Scotland for another one: Assloss
10. This last one is so poular there is one in USA (Arkansas) AND one in Australia (Queensland). And it is .......................... Bald Knob.
I know of one or two other confusing places nearby to where I live and I thought I'd look around for some more to compile a list. So here it is:
1. Kilncadzow, pronounced "kill-caig-ee". One of my particular favourites, lol.
2. I have to add this as my fiance always gets it wrong - Edinburgh. He pronounces it as he would Pittsburgh but it's actually "ed-in-burr-uh" or "ed-in-burr-oh" depending on whether or not you're posh, lol.
3. Culross and Culter are both pronounced with a "coo" but in the case of Culross, the 'l' is silent.
Moving away from Scotland now:
4. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales. I won't even attempt to guess how to pronounce it!!
5. My fiance's home sate: Arkansas. Most of my family pronounce it exactly how it's spelled (I do too in my head when I'm writing/typing it, lol) but as most people know it's actually pronounced "are-can-saw".
Some fun names rather than mis-pronounced ones:
6. Okay, Oklahoma
7. Nameless, Tennessee
8. Girdletree, Maryland
9. Back to Scotland for another one: Assloss
10. This last one is so poular there is one in USA (Arkansas) AND one in Australia (Queensland). And it is .......................... Bald Knob.
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Monday, 28 June 2010
Why only 24 hours in a day??
I've been spending so much time adding designs to and trying to promote my Animatastic store on zazzle and the associated website I set up that I haven't had time for anything else recently. My ArtformTheHeart store desperately needs reorganising and I desperately need a life, so I was wondering why there are so few hours in the day - I think I need an extra 10!!! lol
I know the length of a day is determined by the earth's rotation around the sun and that it really doesn't matter if there are 24 hours in a day, or 12 hours that are twice as long (following?) but who decided on 24 as the number of hours? Apparently, or so the theory goes, it was the ancient Egyptians who began the process (clever people huh?). They divided their nights into twelve segments based upon different star patterns that appeared throughout the night. Later in time the Greeks formalised the system by dividing daylight hours into twelve segments also. The 24 segments became known as equinoctial hours (based upon there being 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness on days of equinoxes).
I know the length of a day is determined by the earth's rotation around the sun and that it really doesn't matter if there are 24 hours in a day, or 12 hours that are twice as long (following?) but who decided on 24 as the number of hours? Apparently, or so the theory goes, it was the ancient Egyptians who began the process (clever people huh?). They divided their nights into twelve segments based upon different star patterns that appeared throughout the night. Later in time the Greeks formalised the system by dividing daylight hours into twelve segments also. The 24 segments became known as equinoctial hours (based upon there being 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness on days of equinoxes).
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Differences between USA/UK; fun facts
Whenever I'm in the USA I get asked what it's like in Scotland. More often that not I now say "It's much the same as here" But I guess on my first trip I saw a LOT of differences. Of course, I've only been to Northwest Arkansas (and just over the state lines into Oklahoma and Missourri) so some of my observations may be state-specific, but here are a few of the differences that I recall noticing that first trip.
In the UK we:
More patriotic gifts here.
In the UK we:
- don't have drive through banks (nope, got to find somewhere to park your car, walk to the bank and get your cash). We don't have drive-through pharmacies or Utility providers either.
- don't have 50 different fast food chains (pretty much we have McD's, BK, KFC and Dominos the same as USA but that's about it - yes there are a few others dotted around but not real nationwide chains)
- get a lot more rain!
- we think 77 Degrees Farenheit is a hot day!
- sit on the right and drive on the left
- have a lot more smaller cars with smaller engines (probably because our gas prices are around 3x those in the USA)
- already have tax included in the ticket price, you buy a £20 shirt, it's £20.
- call it a supermarket (as opposed to a grocery store) and it's pretty standard in the UK to buy your cigarettes and alcohol there as well as your groceries
- call a grill a barbecue and a broiler a grill (still causes confusion when I visit the USA)
- don't have a National Health Service (most people I personally met can't afford to visit a doctor when they get sick, and one or two even went thousands of dollars into debt when they needed an operation, a scary thought to me!)
- have drive-in movies (I went for the first time ever last summer, lay on an airbed in the back of the pick-up truck and thought it was sooooo cool)
- are really Patriotic and it's common to see small versions of the US flag in people's gardens
- don't have roundabouts (okay, where I have been in the USA they don't)
- can turn right at a red traffic light
More patriotic gifts here.
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Rednecks were Scottish, interesting huh?
I was looking up Redneck 'stuff' for another website and decided to find out about the origins of the term. I was surprised to find that the (or one of the) earliest references to the name as it's present definition in American culture was from 1893 (1): "...poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...", yet there is evidence of a much earlier usage of the term in both Scottish and American history.
The term refers to the Scottish Covenanters of the 1600's, those whom opposed taking the Church of England as the official state church (the political union of Scotland with England did not occur until 1707 when the United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed, prior to this Scotland was an independent sovereign state). The Covenanters held that Scotland desired a Presbyterian church government and signed documents to that effect in the mid 1600's, often using their own blood to sign. Many Covenanters wore a piece of red cloth around their necks as a sign of their position and so the term Red Neck became slang for 'Scottish Dissenter'.
As the union with England became inevitable and executions without trial reigned, many Covenanters fled to Ireland and North America setting up new Presbyterian Churches where they settled. The Dictionary of American Regional English (1) shows the earliest American citation of the term Redneck's used as a name for Presbyterians is from 1830: "...the Presbyterians of Fayetteville [North Carolina]".
There is also a Scottish origin for the term Hillbilly, which I may come back to later in time.
(1)Frederic Gomes Cassidy & Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English, 2002, pg 531
The term refers to the Scottish Covenanters of the 1600's, those whom opposed taking the Church of England as the official state church (the political union of Scotland with England did not occur until 1707 when the United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed, prior to this Scotland was an independent sovereign state). The Covenanters held that Scotland desired a Presbyterian church government and signed documents to that effect in the mid 1600's, often using their own blood to sign. Many Covenanters wore a piece of red cloth around their necks as a sign of their position and so the term Red Neck became slang for 'Scottish Dissenter'.
As the union with England became inevitable and executions without trial reigned, many Covenanters fled to Ireland and North America setting up new Presbyterian Churches where they settled. The Dictionary of American Regional English (1) shows the earliest American citation of the term Redneck's used as a name for Presbyterians is from 1830: "...the Presbyterians of Fayetteville [North Carolina]".
There is also a Scottish origin for the term Hillbilly, which I may come back to later in time.
(1)Frederic Gomes Cassidy & Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English, 2002, pg 531
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Ever wondered???
Have you ever wondered...........
Why London's Metropolitan Police headquarters is called 'Scotland Yard'? As a kid, I used to assume 'Scotland Yard' was in, well, Scotland. I think I believed this until I was a teenager - doh! The answer to the conundrum is pretty simple though; the street where the first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Force was situated was named Great Scotland Yard. So now you know!
Why we put money in piggy banks? I mean really, why a pig? Why not a hippo or a dog? Well, back around the middle ages, people used to put their money into clay jars to keep it safe. The type of clay used back then was called pygg. Later in time, the word pygg dropped from common usage and other types of clay were used for pottery, however people continued to call their money jars 'piggy banks' and pig shaped money jars were created.
Why London's Metropolitan Police headquarters is called 'Scotland Yard'? As a kid, I used to assume 'Scotland Yard' was in, well, Scotland. I think I believed this until I was a teenager - doh! The answer to the conundrum is pretty simple though; the street where the first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Force was situated was named Great Scotland Yard. So now you know!
Why we put money in piggy banks? I mean really, why a pig? Why not a hippo or a dog? Well, back around the middle ages, people used to put their money into clay jars to keep it safe. The type of clay used back then was called pygg. Later in time, the word pygg dropped from common usage and other types of clay were used for pottery, however people continued to call their money jars 'piggy banks' and pig shaped money jars were created.
Barr's Irn Bru - Latest Ad
Ever since I can remember Barr's Irn Bru has been my favourite soft drink. I remember as a kid the Barr's factory was in the town of Wishaw, not far from where I lived, and you could go along and buy directly from the factory. To those of you not in the UK (or more precisely Scotland), irn bru is a bright orange coloured soda described as 'mixed fruit' flavour.
Long time slogans of the drink were "Made in Scotland from girders" and "Scotland's other national drink". In recent years their ad campaigns have become funnier and perhaps more controversial. The parody of the children's animation "the Snowman" (a beautiful adaptation of the Raymond Briggs book set to the song "Walking in the Air) was hilarious. The animation tells the tale of a young boy building a snowman and the snowman later coming to life, very sweet and worth a look if by some chance you have never seen it. The Irn Bru admen cheekily adapted the animation to have the snowman try and get a drink of the young boy's irn bru, when the boy continually refuses, the snowman lets go of his and and sends him crashing back down to earth. It was definately on of the more memorable ad campaigns I've seen, very funny in a somewhat understated way. This clip isn't "The Snowman" though, it's Barr's latest offering; some find it hilarious, others find it offensive but at the end of the day, it's only a bit of fun. Enjoy.
Long time slogans of the drink were "Made in Scotland from girders" and "Scotland's other national drink". In recent years their ad campaigns have become funnier and perhaps more controversial. The parody of the children's animation "the Snowman" (a beautiful adaptation of the Raymond Briggs book set to the song "Walking in the Air) was hilarious. The animation tells the tale of a young boy building a snowman and the snowman later coming to life, very sweet and worth a look if by some chance you have never seen it. The Irn Bru admen cheekily adapted the animation to have the snowman try and get a drink of the young boy's irn bru, when the boy continually refuses, the snowman lets go of his and and sends him crashing back down to earth. It was definately on of the more memorable ad campaigns I've seen, very funny in a somewhat understated way. This clip isn't "The Snowman" though, it's Barr's latest offering; some find it hilarious, others find it offensive but at the end of the day, it's only a bit of fun. Enjoy.
Friday, 14 May 2010
A random funny video
Funny video, of course a lot of them are 'acting' but it's worth it for the genuine ones. The real scary thing is how many times it appears to be parents setting up their young kids for this, lol.
Friday, 7 May 2010
A 'new' invention.
A friend and I were talking once about how great it would be to be able to invent something. Something really new and unique that everyone would want or need so that we could "make our million". He started telling me about an idea he had; saying how awkward he found it trying to use chopsticks in chinese or japanese restaurants. He said that he could just about manage to pick up a piece of food but that by the time he'd gotten the chopsticks anywhere close to his mouth, he's dropped the food, plop back onto his plate. He said that he had an idea how to make chopsticks that were easier to use. Never having been able to remotely use chopsticks myself I told him it sounded like something that could be really popular and told him to continue. He explained that if the chopsticks were sharp at the end, pointed, you could stab the food and that way it wouldn't fall off of the chopstick. I agreed wholeheartedly and encouraged him to tell me more. He went on to add that he'd then thought how having more than one point would make it even easier still. Again I agreed with him. Then he said, dead pan, "That's when I realised I had just re-invented the fork." Doh - I'm such a sucker!!
Thursday, 6 May 2010
When things seem tough, think of this....
One day a donkey fell into a deep well. The animal brayed for hours hoping someone would hear him and help him out of the well. Passers by stopped and looked down into the well, pondering what to do, but without ropes and tools and machinery, no-one could figure out how to save the donkey.
Eventually, one old man crouched down to the ground and scooped up some dirt in his hands. Slowly he stood and then threw the dirt into the well on top of the donkey. The onlookers at first thought he was crazy, some thought that he was trying to bury the donkey to quiet it. For hours the bystanders watched the old man, silently mocking him as his efforts were clearly futile - after all the donkey was still braying. As the light began to fade and darkness fall, one onlooker finally told the old man that his task was pointless. Without saying a word, the old man leant on the edge of the well and looked in. He extended his arm and smiled. The angry onlooker thought the old man was crazy, but himself went to the well and looked in. To his amazementhe saw the donkey with his head barely a foot from the opening of the well. With every handful of dirt that hit his back, the donkey had doing something incredible. He had shaken the dirt from his back and taken a step up. As more and more dirt was thrown upon him, so he rose up the height of the well. The angry onlooker shook his head in amazement, a smile spread across his face and he began to help the old man throw more dirt into the well. Soon the dirt was so high that the donkey could jump out of the well all on his own.
Life is going to throw dirt at you, the trick is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a handful of dirt. We can get out of the deepest wells by not giving up, shake it off and rise above it.
Eventually, one old man crouched down to the ground and scooped up some dirt in his hands. Slowly he stood and then threw the dirt into the well on top of the donkey. The onlookers at first thought he was crazy, some thought that he was trying to bury the donkey to quiet it. For hours the bystanders watched the old man, silently mocking him as his efforts were clearly futile - after all the donkey was still braying. As the light began to fade and darkness fall, one onlooker finally told the old man that his task was pointless. Without saying a word, the old man leant on the edge of the well and looked in. He extended his arm and smiled. The angry onlooker thought the old man was crazy, but himself went to the well and looked in. To his amazementhe saw the donkey with his head barely a foot from the opening of the well. With every handful of dirt that hit his back, the donkey had doing something incredible. He had shaken the dirt from his back and taken a step up. As more and more dirt was thrown upon him, so he rose up the height of the well. The angry onlooker shook his head in amazement, a smile spread across his face and he began to help the old man throw more dirt into the well. Soon the dirt was so high that the donkey could jump out of the well all on his own.
Life is going to throw dirt at you, the trick is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a handful of dirt. We can get out of the deepest wells by not giving up, shake it off and rise above it.
Thursday, 29 April 2010
How Schools Could Use Social Media - Safe Surfing for Kids
I was feeling uninspired and looking for a topic to blog about when I came across a list "100 Blog/Podcast Topics I Hope YOU Write". At number 12 on the list was "How Schools Could Use Social Media" and this reminded me of something I had thought of some time ago. Lets face it, kids nowadays love social networking websites and there are many to choose from. Popularity of websites seem to go through phases or fashions, but no matter what the website, we at some point hear about online bullying or paedophile activity. It is truly shocking and sickening that some human beings can be so twisted and very sad to think that kids are not safe from harm even in their own homes. With the introduction of smartphones, kids can access their social media pages anywhere, anytime without the same parental controls that can be set on home computers. It all got me thinking about why there isn't a safe, secure social networking solution for children and teenagers.
I honestly do not know how possible it would be to set up or implement this idea but I am sure there are many programmers out there who could manage it quite easily. Soicial networking wesites require no verification beyond a valid email address to activate a new account. Anyone can get an email address using false details and from that set up a fake social networking profile. IP addresses are traceable but that is easily gotten around by someone looking to hide their true identity. Many if not all social networking sites have a minimum age requirement for sign-up, but that's just a case of the website owners covering their backs legally by making members check a box which states "I am over 13 years of age" or something to that effect. I know of many kids who have signed up to networking sites whilst underage, yet they have clicked to confirm that they ARE of age and so the website is not legally responsible. Now I'm sure that the programming would be very simple to require a more reliable, traceable verification. My idea is really very simple, a social networking website that is only for kids under 18 years of age and in the education system. Accounts would have to be verified using a unique identifying number that would be given out by the child's school. Clearly schools would have to sign up to the scheme and they would request verification codes which they would then assign to each child and register to their name. The child would then sign up to the website and the verification code/name/details would have to match before an account could be created. In theory that would mean that no adults could create an account - unless of course they were a teacher or parent abusing the system. An additional level of security could be introduced by using facial recognition software or fingerprint logging. Most people nowadays have a webcam either as part of their computer or as a peripheral and facial recognition software could be incorporated into the website. Similarly, many laptops nowadays have fingerprint pads and associated software for securing user accounts and files and again this could be incorporated into the website as part of the sign-in process in addition to or instead of a password. Utilising one or both of these measures would ensure that user accounts on the child-safe social networking site could not be hacked. To allow a child to access their profile from a smartphone, again the facial recognition option could be used.
As for combatting online bullying, that would require 'policing' by the website owners. Surely it would not be too difficult to programme a search function which continually scans posts for inflammatory words or phrases? If any such comments were found, the poster would receive a warning and their posts manually reviewed for a period of time. Repeat offences would result in the account being deleted.
It all sounds good to me in principle and I'm sure that for web designers/programmers it would be rather simple to set up. What I am unsure of is how keen schools would be to get behind such a website that requires admin duties on their part or how keen kids would be to move away from their current social networking sites to one that was more restricted. I do wish that I had the programming knowledge to set this up myself.
I just wanted to add an update to say that this post has made 'Featured Article' over at RedGage.
I honestly do not know how possible it would be to set up or implement this idea but I am sure there are many programmers out there who could manage it quite easily. Soicial networking wesites require no verification beyond a valid email address to activate a new account. Anyone can get an email address using false details and from that set up a fake social networking profile. IP addresses are traceable but that is easily gotten around by someone looking to hide their true identity. Many if not all social networking sites have a minimum age requirement for sign-up, but that's just a case of the website owners covering their backs legally by making members check a box which states "I am over 13 years of age" or something to that effect. I know of many kids who have signed up to networking sites whilst underage, yet they have clicked to confirm that they ARE of age and so the website is not legally responsible. Now I'm sure that the programming would be very simple to require a more reliable, traceable verification. My idea is really very simple, a social networking website that is only for kids under 18 years of age and in the education system. Accounts would have to be verified using a unique identifying number that would be given out by the child's school. Clearly schools would have to sign up to the scheme and they would request verification codes which they would then assign to each child and register to their name. The child would then sign up to the website and the verification code/name/details would have to match before an account could be created. In theory that would mean that no adults could create an account - unless of course they were a teacher or parent abusing the system. An additional level of security could be introduced by using facial recognition software or fingerprint logging. Most people nowadays have a webcam either as part of their computer or as a peripheral and facial recognition software could be incorporated into the website. Similarly, many laptops nowadays have fingerprint pads and associated software for securing user accounts and files and again this could be incorporated into the website as part of the sign-in process in addition to or instead of a password. Utilising one or both of these measures would ensure that user accounts on the child-safe social networking site could not be hacked. To allow a child to access their profile from a smartphone, again the facial recognition option could be used.
As for combatting online bullying, that would require 'policing' by the website owners. Surely it would not be too difficult to programme a search function which continually scans posts for inflammatory words or phrases? If any such comments were found, the poster would receive a warning and their posts manually reviewed for a period of time. Repeat offences would result in the account being deleted.
It all sounds good to me in principle and I'm sure that for web designers/programmers it would be rather simple to set up. What I am unsure of is how keen schools would be to get behind such a website that requires admin duties on their part or how keen kids would be to move away from their current social networking sites to one that was more restricted. I do wish that I had the programming knowledge to set this up myself.
I just wanted to add an update to say that this post has made 'Featured Article' over at RedGage.
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