Your Letters
Kirk and Keith (Friday letters) are missing a trick here - how about: Keith, while Kirk had had "had had 'had had' had had 'had'. 'Had had' had had", had had "had had 'had had', had had 'had had had': 'had had' had had". "Had had 'had had', had had 'had had had': 'had had' had had" had had...
Matt F, York, UK
Monitor: We've had had had enough.
Keith from Lismore, I'm not a boy.
EH (Lizzie) Lawrenson
Re 10 things, No 2: I don't believe that the average length of a PowerPoint presentation is 250 minutes. Most presentations I go to last less than an hour. I think you're presenting the statistic for the average length of time a PowerPoint presentation feels like it lasts.
Adam, London, UK
I have been using both Eastern & Western on web forums for ages- yet I'm of Western origin (UK). Many of my other Western friends also use such emoticons: well we use a mix of :) and ^-^. I personally think the Eastern ones are easy to understand but the Western ones are easier to find on the keyboard.
K Morrison, Rochester, UK
Re , 126 million pints of beer are served a week in the UK. That's 6,552 million a year and only 5,500 pints are used as weapons (assuming each attack uses one pint glass). That's 0.000084% of all pints that are used as weapons. Sounds like a very serious problem.
Elle, London
Just read your list of good and bad PPT presentations, I can't believe no-one has mentioned Randy Pausch's or Dave Gorman's . Both are riveting talks, that are wonderfully supported by the visual presentation that goes with them.
Simon Howes, Leighton Buzzard