Archive for September 12th, 2007

On Proper Nouns

My son is learning about proper nouns and common nouns at school. Which led to my griping last night about that particular dichotomy in English. Iraq is a proper noun. That makes sense. Iraqis is as well. That doesn’t — there are millions of them, if that doesn’t define “common” then [...]

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Shrook Calling Pukka, Shrook Calling Pukka…

AppleScript, Shrook & Pukka experts — is it possible to build a custom keyboard command that lets me invoke Pukka from Shrook? (These names, I know!).
I haven’t touched AppleScript seriously since the late 80s I fear, but there’s got to be a way to hijack Pukka’s Mark as Flagged command, no?

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