In the Financial Time’s December 9, 2011 glossy supplement, on Jonathan Morgolis’s “technopolis” page nestled among ads for Rolexes and diamonds and such, there appears a blurb praising Scrivener, which reads in part: “Scrivener seemed to have some passionate fans, a lot of them well-known writers. The maker’s website, though did not auger well. Scrivener comes from Cornwall, and I’m afraid the company seemed painfully provincial… I persevered nonetheless, and I’m very glad I did, because Scrivener is the best writing software program ever… It’s well thought out and brilliantly executed.”
Quote, Thomas Bullfinch: “It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.”
Everything’s relative, including the provinces. For instance, in most provinces, “auger” refers to a drill, while “augur” supposes an omen, a presentiment. Perhaps in London, the reverse is true.
Drill, baby, drill?
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“… auger…”? 
Slapdash FT subs.
“… painfully provincial…”? I assume the author is referring to the “About us” page. Margolis must have left his irony bone behind somewhere.
Given that “provincial” means “of local or restricted interests or outlook” (thank you Merriam-Webster) then a quick look at the About Us page should have dispelled that myth.
I’m struggling to think how L&L could be any less provincial. It’s already as if Keith has said to everyone, “Ok, you can work for L&L, but only on the condition that you go and live and work as far away as humanly possible from both me and each other. Wife, I suppose you can stay in Cornwall.”
What I read…
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[size=150]…Scrivener is the best writing software program ever… It’s well thought out and brilliantly executed.[/size]"
As an experiment, I hooked up my computer to my auger, and then brought up the Lit & Lat website. It augered like a charm! I’m writing more than ever, and I have a series of cylindrical holes in my yard*.
The author of that article must be the provincial one, or he’d have known his web-browser-based digital to analogue controller tech and seen it’s coding in the website’s source code. Sloppy, sloppy research. At least he got it right about Scrivener itself.
- Where I come from, an auger is like a giant drill attached to a tractor, and you use it to dig post holes.
Seriously. The recent iOS thread is a clear sign that Keith has found a potential iOS programmer in South Africa. Or maybe Mongolia.
Katherine
…or Outer Stockportia
[size=150]Scrivener…[/size]
CODE NAME
…so named from the local inhabitants’ habitual response to the question ‘Where would you like to go?’
‘Anywhere Outer Stockportia…’
Oh…very droll…very droll.
Well, as an alumnus of Stepping Hill, I’m allowed to…
Y’ wanna be careful what you reveal to this mob of miscreants…Stepping Hill, looks like some kind of Dancing Academy
If so, I failed…
Ah…so y’re one of those, are y’? 
I couldn’t aspire to such heights…
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
– Samuel Beckett
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
– Kurt Vonnegut
(A pathetic but well-intentioned effort to make some connection between OP and the current state of forumnal deterioration. Not that Beckett or Vonnegut ever shilled for Scrivener… but they would have, had it come earlier or they later. Well, Vonnegut, anyway. Beckett might have been more of a WriteRoom kind of guy.)
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It’s highly unlikely…but…not totally beyond the realms of possibility…Probability? Hmmm, nahh. Did he mean to use the word, ogres? If he did, that then opens a whole new can of wrigglies?
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown” (Gen. 6:4, KJV).
And where else in the earth, other than Cornwall and Wales. Does Scrivener owe its success to its Arthurian lineage: Men of integrity and daring, not to mention dragons, wizards, warlocks, spells, etc.etc. Consider the plaudits garnered by the Provincial L&L Mafia…wot y’ got? Magic be wot y’ got, Squire. There be Giants!
You’re quite right to kick off there, young Master Philip. The amount of offtopicking tolerated throughout Scrivener’s fora, has reach pandemic proportions. Of course, blame rests fairly and squarely across the collective shoulders of Scriv’s blasé and feckless moderators. Heaven only knows what the hell they’re doing with their time? Probably got their heads buried in computer gaming and other such time squandering pursuits, instead of instilling a sense of discipline amongst the deviants aboard Scriv.
The likes of Vic-k and that brookter person, should have a lifelong ban imposed upon them. Vic-k couldn’t stay on topic, even if the OP was tattooed on the underside of his eyelids.
Take care
Fluff
Can’t tell you what a disappointment it was to find “eyelids” at the end of that sentence.
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