It is not often that a new Ogham stone is discovered, so when last week someone asked me to take a look at a piece of slate with a possible Ogham inscription on it that they had just found, I was excited, but not overly hopeful that it would turn out...

(I suppose that this post should come at the end of what may turn into a series of posts surveying the Ogham stones of Britain and Ireland, but I feel like doing it now, so here it is.) Ogham stones occur throughout the areas of Britain that border...

In anticipation of next week's blog post, I thought it would be useful to present a brief survey of the known Ogham stone inscriptions in Cornwall and Devon. Although the large majority of Ogham stones are found in Ireland, a number of Ogham stone...

Previously discussed : What's new in Unicode 5.0 ? What's new in Unicode 5.1 ? What's new in Unicode 5.2 ? Now that Unicode 5.2 has been out for a month, I think that it would be a good idea to look forward to Unicode 6.0, which is scheduled for...

<img src="http://www.babelstone.co.uk/CJK/Images/RenminRibao_collage.jpg" title="An Anarchic Collage of Second Stage Table 1 Simplifications from a 1978 Edition of the "People's Daily" (from the Chinese Wikipedia)"/> A lot of people hate simplified...