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After significant practice and familial moral support, I’ve bettered my previous score from this to a new high of 107667 and a world rank of 147. Beat that if you dare!

Recently, I encountered a grammar issue that I have meant to figure out for some time. Now is that time.

The English language is largely a messy tangle of inconsistent rules and exceptions to those rules. The subject of this post will highlight a portion of that messiness. When ending any written sentence, the convention is to use a one of three punctuation marks: exclamation, question, or period. That is straight-forward enough. But things get a little stickier when the end of the sentence (or, in the case of the comma, a dependent clause) also involves a quotation mark. The question is, does the punctuation mark go inside of or outside of the closing quotation mark?

I’ve updated Journler today from 1.1.6 to 2.0 and I’m loving the changed appearance and functionality. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the application, “Journler” is a fine program for recording thoughts digitally - either words, or images, or sound, or any combination thereof. Actually, this app does so much more than that. Bottom line, this is a great application and I’m going to donate money for it as soon as I get a chance. I wonder how much I should send to the developer. I’m not sure why I mention this at all, but I can’t help myself.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to kick a ball around your office trying to get the ball to land in a trash can that you place in increasingly inaccessible locations? Then have I got a treat for you. Check out Binball Wizard!!! [DISCLAIMER: Michael Drechsel will not be held responsible for any diminished productivity that may accompany engaging in a game of Binball…you’ve been warned.]

NB - My best is 90752 and my global rank is 13781…for the time being.