Today's word is 'wordle'. I wondered where these word cloud illustrations I had seen were coming from and happened to notice a reference in a Guardian article so I tracked it down. Wordle is a very cool Java applet you can try at www.wordle.net. Sure it's been around for years but it's new to me.
Nothing ever being easy, I tried it in Chrome and Firefox but both of them said my Java was out of date and when I tried to update it I was told my Microsoft Installer Service was broken and I should piss off (all the knowledgebase fixes having failed or not worked for some other reason - following the instructions at one point lead to the Google desktop being loaded! I think it may be time to move to Windows 7 with a lovely clean install).
So I loaded Internet Explorer and it worked - slowly! The pictures I've uploaded are derived from Jodie Fosters coming out speech and a meditation on the recent death of my modem router. Also, as I was writing this I've realised yet again that Facebook is not suited to verbose bastards or complexity so I might move all of this to the blog.
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