April 30, 2008
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April 24, 2008
"i" is just as important
Well, the Turkish "i" that is. After I read the article, all I could remember was when I was back in Sun doing localisation, especially new keyboard support for Solaris, and I have always wondered about the Turkish "i". It was confusing to test as I think the small Turkish "i" looks like the English capital "i", I can't remember, it's such a long time ago. Anyway, here's the article I'm referring to, A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail.
April 23, 2008
April 22, 2008
Twitter sp@m
Argh, I cannot avoid posting about this, it is so annoying. As some of you know, I'm on Twitter, but recently I have been getting followed by what looks like sp@mmers. Tell-tale signs, like names with 16xdvdmedia and its url links to a generic site with crap on it. At least there is a block option, but I wish Twitter will implement something to stop these people ruining another online tool. It's just like Reddit is going downhill as people are just posting digg-like or slashdotty stuff, and commenters are getting just as bad. It use to be so tecchie and nice folks are being pushed out. Now I'm reading Hacker News, just do a search for "Hacker News", and see what you think. 
April 20, 2008
links for 2008-04-20
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Enter Chinese, get Cantonese or Mandarin pinyin back. Great for reading Chinese articles.
April 19, 2008
He's going to ruin it!
Hollywood is going to make Ghost in the Shell, Steven Spielberg is directing. Leave it be, I tell you, it's such a bad idea.
Something's familiar
I don't work in the restaurant per sae any more, I use to help out yonks ago, but I came across this blog entry that sort of strikes a note from the stories my brothers would recount of the times when they dealt with customers in the restaurant. Cynical as the blog entry is, it's true about the beta-males, and the experiences of the cashier, definitely closer to the truth than the other parts of the entry. I wonder what prompted this person to write this though, he/she sounded a bit traumatised. Or just decided to ramble, just like what I am doing right now! :)
Aer Lingus ticket blunder
After their fiasco of not honouring 5 Euro tickets booked on Wednesday, Aer Lingus decided to honour them, but not the upgraded business seats, which was fair enough. What I found funny was in the Irish Independent papers yesterday, there was a Ryanair ad taking advantage of Aer Lingus' whoopsie.100,000 REAL (from) €5 SEATS. One-way, no hidden charges.I like it that they had the from (I put it in brackets) above the Euro symbol.
NO AER LINGUS "MISTAKES"
NO AER LINGUS FAKE OFFERS
NO AER LINGUS FUEL SURCHARGES
Oh, and here is their press release as well. They called Aer Lingus the high fares, way worse airline.
April 18, 2008
I "Bejewelled" you
Wow, an even geekier way to propose! This guy actually programmed a game that his girlfriend plays and proposes the message in the game when she reaches a certain score!
Tagging in the Indo
I've only just noticed that the Indo article pages look different, I'm seeing more links on the article pages. I moused over certain linked words, and realised they are tags. Here's an example, I clicked on "Menlo Park" and the link directs me to http://www.independent.ie/topics/Menlo+Park. Not sure when this happened, but it's not bad, great to see Irish news medias online are trying out new things.
UPDATE
Oh, so this is the crowd that handles all the linking of information, Inform.
Inform provides technology solutions for established media brands. We support editors and publishers by searching, organizing and linking content so your site can present even greater editorial breadth – and win more readers.
April 13, 2008
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April 10, 2008
Sky in your apartment drive
Someone's being doing their research, Sky is promoting shared dish for your apartment block via flyers and letters. We got such promotions today, and they stated that if at least 4 people register their interest, that is enough to get a shared dish on the block. So my hubby registered straight away. We had enough of NTL's (or now know as UPC) crappy service, both their broadcast and customer service, and we are not the only ones. Can't wait, HD tv, oh yeah! 