Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

One last (for now) bit of navel gazing about the new look and feel of this site and then its back to waffling about football, Dr. Who, music and the manifold shortcomings of the Tories.
For a start, while I was not looking, the hit counter ticked past the momentous but arbitrary 100,000 hits mark.  I’m […]

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I have had a compliment or two about the new design e-mailed to me. They had to be e-mailed because apparently the comment facility doesn’t work. Oops. Sorry about that.

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From today The Observer is published in the same Berliner format as the Guardian has since about September.
They didn’t make as much of a song and dance about it as the Guardian did, nor has the reading public been making as much fuss about it.
It all looks pretty good to me. The size […]

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Having seen the mock paper in today’s Observer and yesterday’s Guardian I am a little relieved to find that the lower-case i’s look OK after all - they looked a bit strange in this PDF but on the printed page they are fine. Phew.
Now I only have to worry about how […]

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The Grammar Puss blog is still obsessed (as many of us are) with the new format the Guardian will appear in on Monday.
She has a link to PDF of a trial edition’s front page.
Like many people, I have some reservations about having headlines in a serif font, but then I am […]

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