UK rejects music copyright extension to beyond 50 years, Xandros and Microsoft entered into a collaboration agreement, drunk astronauts are allowed to take a spacewalk, a new, free and destructible email service that tries to stay afloat, and HTML 5 getting another review. These are the things I missed when I was not able to read Userfriendly.org. EBBEH!

I've been following this comic strip for a while now. I even read and re-read the archives, from the first strip to the most current one. It's a comic strip for geeks, by (I could only presume) a geek. It's very witty, although sometimes, I can't get the joke because it's either too techy, or too regional. That's where I also found the name for this website. Gormless. At first, it was defined as "one who is totally bereft of gorm." This was totally a geek thing, making up a word that is virtually nonexistent. But then, some of the geeks who are also religiously following the strip proved me wrong. It WAS a word. Just not globally accepted and was buried beneath a cave of British literature a long time ago. The first website that defined the word was Wikipedia. Then it was moved to the Wiktionary. Then other online dictionaries added the word into their database about a few hours or days later. Now, it's accepted all over and is being used by everyone. Gormless is a common word now. You can see the etymology, meaning and synonyms as well as where it first appeared when you go here: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gormless. The word is not flattering. It is condescending. Sarcastic, ironic, oftentimes offensive. One who is totally bereft of gorm. Funny, their actions may be. But the "them" can sometimes be you and me. It's all good. :-D