Just a bit of funk bass with sun

Currently, I am totally working my butt off developing and editing a language school's e-learning site (more on that later after the go-live). So, every once in a while I need to release the tension and jump around the room a bit. This video is perfect for that. Good song, great singer, sunshine, dancing, lots of partying people and one of the funkiest bass runs in pop history. Enjoy!

Lucid Lynx at large

I seem to have found the best operation system for my computer. Needless to say, it's Lucid with a capital L. How come? There is such an operation system. It is the latest LTS (long-term-support) release of Ubuntu, an open source and free operation system. This linux distribution comes out with a new release every 6 months and they give strange animal names to the new baby. The latest one is called Lucid Lynx and earlier releases had fascinating names too: Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon, Jaunty Jackalope, Intrepid Ibex... just to mention a few. It took some time to install L.L. , but thanks to my linux expert friend, Tibi, now it seems to be working as a charm. It is much faster, more stable and easier to use than my old system (which was also Ubuntu, but an older release). If you like trying out new things and you are not afraid of technological adventures why not give this operation system a try? here is the link.

A word of caution though: no matter how cool and user friendly the system is, with older hardware you may have some problems. Before taking the plunge, I suggest that you select the 'Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer' menu point of the installation CD. This will give you a general idea what the whole thing looks like on your computer and reveals (hopefully:) whether your hardware is compatible with Lucid Lynx or not.

It's raining cats and dogs

Yes. it is. But in May it's nothing extraordinary. If you haven't heard this expression yet, maybe you start to wonder: "raining cats and dogs"? Yup, it means it's raining very heavily. There are lots of other idioms that use animals. Take for instance, the expression: paper tiger. It is used quite often and it refers to something or someone that seems more powerful or dangerous than it actually is. Or when you hear a story that is suspicious you may smell a rat. Here is a quiz I made last week for my students. It is about animals used in idiomatic expressions. Check how many of them you can get right. (When you have finished the quiz all your answers will be highlighted and you can read or click on the 'Explanation' after some of the difficult questions.)

English idioms with animals » make online tests

Therapy

The other day I did a quiz. One of the questions made me think of the classic zefrank video "therapy". Maybe there is still someone out there who hasn't seen it. It has some pretty good phrases about habits and behaviour in it.