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Less-known facts about emacs

Make no mistake about it: the primary goal of FSF is software freedom. Producing ‘good software’ is secondary. Read it yourself

2005 01 26 Comments Off on Less-known facts about emacs

So much for PS2 Linux

I’ve always been interested in Linux for the PS2, especially since some of the hardware on the PS2 had some interesting features from a graphics standpoint. However, I just checked the Playstation 2 Linux Website and found this disappointing news. US & Canada: The North American territory is now sold out of Linux for PlayStation […]

2005 01 25 Comments Off on So much for PS2 Linux

Vietnam through a Vietnamese-American eyes

I always find it interesting to hear the myriad of voices of the slice of Asian-Americans that are known as Vietnamese-Americans. I have many mixed thoughts on this. I think it would be beneficial to me to sit down and try to verbalize these many thoughts in a coherent fashion. However, someone else has done […]

2005 01 16 Comments Off on Vietnam through a Vietnamese-American eyes

A most excellent presentation on projections

Happy New Year’s and all that. To kick off the New Year’s I give you a link from Remote Sensing about map projections. This is a very nice overview of map projections with excellent pictures to illustrate many of the jargon terms that people in the GIS and geopgraphy field toss around. I can finally […]

2005 01 06 tagme Comments Off on A most excellent presentation on projections

Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll

Got this link from Bokane. Seems that Chinese fans get a kick out of writing fanfiction novels of Harry coming to China and experiencing the far east. One particular version has been selling rather well in China it seems. Check the link for more info. Read more

2004 12 27 tagme Comments Off on Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll

A Chinese dialect version of Jingle Bells

John over at SinoSplice dug up a really interesting Chinese version of Jingle Bells. The problem is WHAT particular dialect of Chinese is it? Some folks were thinking it was Vietnamese since it was not Cantonese (and definitely not Mandarin) but I’m sure it’s NOT Vietnamese so that leaves the piles of dialects of China […]

2004 12 23 tagme Comments (1)

Some intereting articles on linguistics

The first one is interesting since it points out a not so well known linguist but seems like a competent guy. But then again most academics tend to remain in obscurity except for a very few. The second article I’m completely skeptical about. Article 1: How many Linguists can you name? Article 2: Writing as […]

2004 12 13 tagme Comments (1)

Mega Burger

Aren’t you getting hungry?

2004 12 13 tagme Comments Off on Mega Burger

Too much computing == poor learning?

According to a report dug up by the Christian Science Monitor it says so. And too much candy is bad for your tummy too. Read it here

2004 12 07 tagme Comments Off on Too much computing == poor learning?

The $100 PC, too bad you still can’t afford it

If you have been following the tech news. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft issued a challenge to the computer industry that the world NEEDS a $100 PC to help cut down on piracy in emerging countries. While there’s plenty of opinions on this. My one word stance on the matter is skeptical. A company has stepped […]

2004 12 05 tagme Comments Off on The $100 PC, too bad you still can’t afford it

OMFG! My Laptop was stolen. Um.. duh?

Seems one of the creators of PHP got his nice shiny new laptop stolen at a PHP conference in Paris: My nice new T42p was stolen by some loser at a PHP conference in Paris. It is amazingly inconvenient to lose a laptop like this. It was from inside the conference hall and there was […]

2004 12 03 tagme Comments Off on OMFG! My Laptop was stolen. Um.. duh?

Merry X-mas Foxtrot Style

Today’s Foxtrot is very cute. It took me a little bit to figure out but it’s worth brushing up your physics for it. It doesn’t take that much physics really. Read it yourself

2004 12 01 tagme Comments Off on Merry X-mas Foxtrot Style

How to test if you’re American

Found an online test to see if you’re American. I pretty much hit most of the marks…. well duh. However there’s one that sounds like it was written by someone who can only see black and white: Between “black” and “white” there are no other races. Someone with one black and one white parent looks […]

2004 11 30 tagme Comments Off on How to test if you’re American

Some interesting differences between the Japanese and English version of Windows

I was following a discussion on the Squeak Mailing List and found this interesting discussion regarding the differences in text encoding of keyboard input and the clipboard for the Japanese and English version of Windows: J.S. posts his initial problem … thank you for replying. Perhaps I should have just asked if there was a […]

2004 11 28 tagme Comments Off on Some interesting differences between the Japanese and English version of Windows

I want the Transformer option for my car, please

Well, I know what option I want on my next car. Wouldn’t you?

2004 11 27 tagme Comments Off on I want the Transformer option for my car, please