In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when the first month changed from Kalendas Martius (1 March) to Kalendas Januarius (1 January).

Sip of the Day - June 30, 2009

Sip of the Day - The New Credit Crunch

Titera's Tidbit: Blog
In 1997, using a new technology that allowed him to make daily changes to his home page on the World Wide Web, a journalist called Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog", on the model of a ship or airplane log. In 1999, Peter Merholz read the word as "we blog", and abbreviated it as "blog" on his own site. The word has proliferated, just as the thing itself.




Broken Heart

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