There are times when you really wanted to have an undo button in life and especially for editors who work on a fast pace we really need a easier way to backup earlier posts. There seems to be an answer to this, the search engine cache systems in Google, Yahoo and Live. These hold on to the previous cached pages until they do the next set of crawl and update. What this provides us is a way to restore back old content if you deleted some by online content editors. These editors although very handy the number of undo’s is very limited than what is offered by word. And there is a reason for this anyway.

  So if you seem to have lost content there are two places to look one is the search engine caches. Based on how popular is your site with specific engine it may get updated at different frequencies. So you probably could be looking at a few revisions across the engines which can be very handy at times. The other place to look at would be the archive.org website which always amazes me on how much storage these folks have dedicated to this project. Wow years and years of your content is right there mostly for the popular pages right there and if you like to resurrect a few of these then you just go there and fill in the contents.

 Alright i am back to adding content related to dictionaries that would be more useful to the visitors. But hope this can come handy for someone in the future.

At 1 800 pages of dictionary text and about 270 000 definitions of about 150 000 words, the new edition, out next month, updates its predecessor from 2003.

But billing the 500 or so words as new is something of a misnomer: they have all been common currency for the last three years or more; the only new thing is their first appearance in the dictionary.

For example, global fears over an outbreak of new entry “SARS” - severe acute respiratory syndrome - was at its height in 2003.

“Sex up” - “to make more interesting or attractive” - emerged from Britain’s exaggerated claims about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons capability to justify military action in the same year.

“Congestion charge” - the fee levied on motorists to drive into central London - also makes it in, three years after it was introduced to widespread controversy.

As Samuel Johnson, the author of the “Dictionary of the English Language” in 1755, put it: “Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.” - Sapa-AFP

The organization is distributing 20,000 dictionaries for the kids personal use.

This scene will be repeated in third grade classes in public, charter and private schools. Rotarians are presenting dictionaries to each youngster.

“We at home have said that words form ideas and ideas run the world. that’s what we taught our kids and so dictionaries are a good first step in third grade,” says Sheri Rolf, rotarian.

As students received their dictionaries and returned to their seats, they couldn’t resist the urge to start looking up words.

“I thought it was pretty cool because it had more words than you can find in my regular dictionary,” says Mari Kumura, third grade student.

And why do you need to know long words?

“So you can have a better education. If you know longer words, you might not have to struggle like in college, or high school or middle school,” says Mari Kumura.

It’s called a student dictionary - but it has supplements like the declaration of independence and the U.S. constitution.

“This will be a wonderful resource for them because they have their own personal one at their desk, they can use it any time they like. what I like is all the extra things in there about our country’s history, the presidents, it’s wonderful,” says Jenny Howard, teacher.

Some of the definitions are more complicated than the word - I asked Mari to look up the word “joy.”

“It’s a noun. Great happiness, delight - - elation,” says Mari Kumura.

Matthews - “elation.” Kumura - “elation.” Matthews - “Do you think this will give you some joy?” Kumura - {laugh} “maybe.”>

The kids know how important it is to get a good education - no matter what they plan to do when they grow up.

“Yeah, I’m gonna play major league baseball.” Matthews - “Cool. But you’ll need to know big words to get a good contract, huh?” Pryse - “Yeah. My dad said I can only go to college if i get a scholarship. Which I hope I will,” says Benjamin Pryse, third grade student.

A dictionary is a good start, Benjamin.

The Rotary clubs are providing dictionaries to local school children as a part of the “SoCal Dictionary Project”. The project’s goal is to get a dictionary in the hands of every third grader in Southern California.

Each dictionary has an insert for the student’s name and may be taken home to assist with homework in addition to classroom use.
President Martha Mendez of Indio Noon Rotary and Merritt Wiseman, president of Indio Sunrise Rotary represented their clubs in the joint project.

Club members will deliver the dictionaries to Indio elementary schools and present each student with their own personal dictionary.

Dennis Clark with the Council Bluffs Elks Lodge No. 531 said the idea came from a state convention in April.

“They talked about the Davenport (Elks Lodge) delivering between 700 to 800 dictionaries to the kids in their area,” he said. “We thought this would be a neat idea.”

The goal, Clark said, was to get a dictionary to every third-grader in the Council Bluffs, St. Albert and Tri-Center Districts and at the Iowa School for the Deaf.

That meant a lot of dictionaries would need to be delivered - 912 books total, Clark said.

The Elks Lodge had talked to Lewis Central School officials, but Larry Hutchinson had recently delivered dictionaries to all the second-graders in the school district in April.

Larry’s late wife, Nancy, died Feb. 11, and taught at E.A. Kreft Primary, where the dictionaries were handed out.

On Thursday, the dictionaries were given away to all the Washington and Crescent third-graders at Washington Elementary.

“It’s neat. It’s cool that the students were able to get these,” said Washington Principal Jason Plourde.

Clark hopes to have all the dictionaries distributed by the Labor Day weekend.

This won’t be the last such donation drive, however. Clark said the Elks Lodge is beginning to look ahead to next year, and hopes to eventually work with Larry Hutchinson with distributing dictionaries to the Lewis Central District.

“We’re just glad to be able to do something like this for the kids,” Clark said.