Another day, another great gallery from our friends on #english and reddit.

Incidentally, I found a pretty Darth Vader here…

See the whole gallery below

David Mitchell pwns American English in a way only David Mitchell can.

I’ve been looking for a good guide on how to pronounce what I’ve been calling ‘That volcano in Iceland’ and I finally found one.

Oooh.. look! It’s a whole planet of 3nglish speakers. How do you like dem apples? Now all together, people:

Happy 10th Anniversary, 3nglish.co.uk!

Yep. 10 years of reporting on and supporting of #English on IRCnet. Hell of a ride, man. Hell of a ride. I’ve been hugely busy at my parents in law [as some of you know], but I had a few weekends to myself – so I created this as a fitting tribute to a website everyone said’d die when t-bo left.

As you can see I’ve kind of made the website a lot simpler. I’m still working on a few things [see below], but this is the functional design replacing the old one which was just filling up with junk really.

The feeling of the site’s changed from something up close and personal to far away reflection – which suits me fine. Having a space motif lends itself better than any to the crass foreign looking aliens inhabiting our IRC channel. Since I’m pretty much a SciFi geek I thought it’d be fitting to use it too, as I am basically the main contributor and final editor / god of both the website and the channel [though some people might disagree since I've been much of an absent landlord lately].

All in all, after stripping the previous design I’m left with what you see here. This is as minimal as it’ll get. Since I no longer have much time for blogging or chatting with people I’ll limit myself to the occasional post and working on hunting the bugs in the system. The offer to contribute still remains open for any who wish to try their hand at blogging and or writing short stories of course, so don’t hesitate to sign up. and drop me a comment or a line via the contact form.

I’ll also be encouraging user interaction using some additions like an image upload and perhaps a link to #english that will get the images posted as urls in the chat.

As you can see there’s a red ‘I’ for IRC chat access via mibbit. It works better than the last one we had there. Also, the profile menu will expand in functionality as I continue development of this theme.

A few quick notes:

• Login issues persist because of teh facebook gheys. I’m working on it.
• Check out that funky search and the new user Profile. More will appear there, but this is v1.
• WHAR IS IMAGES, WHARR?
• NSFW content is disabled by default.
• Still working on a few things like a wiki icon etc. So far, it looks like the previous database has collapsed. I’ll have to do some serious work on fixing what we’ve lost one of these days.
• There will be variable background images as mentioned in the blurb above.
• Oh, I’m terribly sorry chaps. Teh gravatars – they is broken.

I’ve used a ton of little bits of php and jQuery to tie it all together. There might still be some minor changes, but i’m working on solving most RFCs. Also, expect more images and video content too, as I pipe in the newest logs to bring the site up to date again later on this week. 3nglish has by and large been a solo effort by me though, so don’t expect miracles soon in this department. I’ve got enough bugs to hunt and problems to fix as well as blog posts to write!

Hi all,

First of all, my appologies for being away for such a long time or at least not posting the amount of videos and rants I usually do. I’ve been very busy with all kinds of personal things and in the mean while coding up the sitewatch and the new front page for this website.

Just to update you on a few of the upcoming changes:

• The project i’ve named Sitewatch will be an rss news agregator which measures the number and types of words per site and creates some poetry from the resulting adjectives and nouns. Took me forever to figure out what was what, really.  I’ll probably rename the project when I go live with the beta. At the moment I’ve got Fox News, The Daily Mail, CNN, BBC and FARK RSS feeds added to the list of sites it scans. I just have to figure out how to output the data.
• The new front page for the blog and website will feature a chat widget,  the newest quote from #english, the newest videos posted and top blogs as well as twitter feeds etc.
• I’ve also decided to create a language section outlining the basics of the English and giving a few examples. Users can sign into the website and ask questions. I’m still fleshing out the details, but I’ve got some good ideas on the whole structure.

Also, we do have some ads on the website, and just as a reminder: if you’re logged in you will see no adverts. So make sure once you’ve registered that you tick the ‘remember me’ button when you’ve logged in so you can enjoy the content without banner ads from the start.

Anyway, here’s a video to make up for my absence over the last few days