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You need this as an Apple tech article?

Oh man, unbelievable. I suggest you just read it for yourself. What, what, lemme read it!

2004 09 10 Comments Off on You need this as an Apple tech article?

Teaching English in Saudi Arabia

I’m curious about life for foreigners in the Middle East. From a western perspective it currently is a place of turmoil, a clash between Islam and the West, uprisings, terrorist acts, and many other things. However, I’m curious about the life of an expatriate there. I think the first idea most people would think is, […]

2004 09 09 Comments Off on Teaching English in Saudi Arabia

Near East Collection at Yale U: Samples of Arabic and Persian Calligraphy

Yale University has samples of Arabic and Persian Calligraphy in their Near East Collection. Pictures of some of those samples are also available online for the curious who want to see what Arabic Calligraphy looks like. I’ve always found Arabic Calligraphy very beautiful even though I can’t understand anything in Arabic at all. If you’re […]

2004 09 07 Comments Off on Near East Collection at Yale U: Samples of Arabic and Persian Calligraphy

Searching for a Electronic EnglishVietnamese Dictionary

Been looking around for a good EnglishVietnamese electronic dictionary. One feature I really want is pronunciation. I have found that the pronunciation is one of the trickier things to pick up correctly on one’s own so a dictionary that can speak a new word would be quite valuable. The current contender I am looking at […]

2004 09 07 Comments Off on Searching for a Electronic EnglishVietnamese Dictionary

Logical Rudeness

Thanks to USS Clueless for pointing a link out on Logical Rudeness. I’m reading through it now since it seems quite amusing. Go read it yourself

2004 09 06 Comments Off on Logical Rudeness

M0n0wall

Looking for a rather fuss free FreeBSD-based distro to run your firewall? This one looks nice and very light and looks like an active project with plenty of excellent documentation. It might not be that easy to use but it seems for folks who want a balance between ease of use and a decent set […]

2004 09 04 Comments Off on M0n0wall

Xinhua Dictionary With English Translation Review

Prince Roy makes a suggestion on a good Chinese-English Dictionary. He describes it very well here. This volume is very useful to the student of Chinese because it is a complete verbatim translation of Xinhua’s 1992 edition of the dictionary, including all appendices. Not only do you learn the meaning of a word, but you […]

2004 08 20 Comments Off on Xinhua Dictionary With English Translation Review

Most Popular Chinese Search Terms

Check it out Thanks Dan Wei!

2004 08 17 Comments Off on Most Popular Chinese Search Terms

The Asian Glance-Over

Been sifting through some more Asian blogs again. How come I can’t find anyone blogging their experiences learning Vietnamese? I guess I’ll start sooner or later to blog those experiences. Anyways, I present to you the concept known as the The Asian Glance-Over. I never really thought about this but I realize I do it […]

2004 08 13 Comments Off on The Asian Glance-Over

The sound of English

As a native speaker of English it’s hard to have an impression on the sound of English. It’s so natural to my ears that I just consider it normal, unlike let’s say…. swahili. I would definitely be able to characterize swahili’s sounds as a foreigner. So what do other people say about English? Some people […]

2004 08 13 Comments Off on The sound of English

Pycore

Seems a well-respected hacker (at least in my book) by the name of Peter Deutsch is going to create an interpreter for Python. (Seems to mainly target Visual Works as the backend). If you don’t know how Peter Deutsch, oh.. he had some hand in building this. The fact he’s jumped into the fray for […]

2004 08 12 Comments Off on Pycore

Online Principles and the online world

Freedom to Tinker has a post on Online Principles. While it is interesting to see people throw up proposals for what people should do. I’m skeptical. However, there was an excellent comment from Hal regarding the online world. I am quoting it below since it is so good it can stand on its own. I […]

2004 08 11 Comments Off on Online Principles and the online world

Odds are Prime

The phrase, “Odd numbers are prime” is quite amusing if we look at it from a viewpoint of polysemy. The following link shows some other ways to look at it from a linguist standpoint. A Linguist’s look at odds are prime

2004 08 11 Comments Off on Odds are Prime

Do you IMDB?

LA Weekly has a great article on IMDB and the story of how it got started. IMDB is a subsidiary of the empire known as Amazon.com but is allowed to run independently. One would like to think that IMDB sprang from nowhere however it took 5 years before they started going commercial. That’s 5 years doing […]

2004 08 11 Comments Off on Do you IMDB?

It’s a big ask

Language Log talks about the usage of ask as a noun. I didn’t realize that ask could be used as a noun myself. It feels weird to hear it but supposedly Kerry used it in a speech during a campaign in Missouri. Here’s the excerpt: I’m asking you to trust our nation, our history, the […]

2004 08 11 Comments Off on It’s a big ask