@ Mr. Anonymous Newsofthworld, Maybe my name didn’t makeany noise but my work did.

I introduced navigational systems, typographical hierarchy, a new typeface (including a customized Maltese typeface), clearly marked sections, larger photography, a design manual.

Basically it was a silent revolution which I am proud to have headed.

If doing the best job for you is making noise , whatever it may be, then I prefer to be lost in the annals of time then be known for delivering bad design.

PS Thanks for looking at my website.

Time for Daphne to step in and do the right thing: start a newspaper. We already have the core of a superb team of journalists on this blog. Besides, it’d provide Saviour Balzan with reams of fuming editorials for his own rag.

Terry Manners is not doing a good job at all, I agree, but you didn’t do the best job either.

In fact no one realised you were assigned to change the face of the newspaper a few years back. At least Manners is making some noise, negative noise, but some noise. You made none.

So why can’t we all be kind rather than indifferent to the obvious pain that this tragedy has caused to three families, whatever the circumstances?

Words can flow uncontrollably at times and are impossible to retract. How many (other than abstainers) can say they had a clear frame of mind at 6 o’clock in the morning of new-year’s day?

So be kind all ye good people, even if you are alert to a suffering-soul’s poor judgement; some magnanimity please for the sake of those silently grieving.

… and there was I, thinking I am uniquely flagged (and binned) because of constantly criticising their English grammar. Their colloquial English is even worse by the way, and they allow indecent words, normally asterisked in decent forums (“fora” if you prefer).

I am convinced they cause untold discomfort to dear old Ms Mabel in her grave. This current reportage in her beloved “Times” must be a real affront to her inherent sense of propriety. This is one kind of behaviour she would not have put up with (or “up with which she would not have put”, if you prefer).

I do this sometimes. If you comment to point out their glaring errors, sometimes they withhold your comment and make the amendment. Poor hapless fools need all the help they can get.

Unfortunately they also edit comments, often making the comment sound just as illiterate as the parent article, so I try not to comment if I think there’s a chance it will be published.