Monthly Archives: March 2007

Unicode and Japanese Names

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Administrator

Just investigating how well modern Japanese personal and place names are represented in commonly-available character sets, such as JIS X 0208 and Unicode. The short story is that Unicode on a recent version of Windows or Mac OS X should … Continue reading →

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Alan Blinder Admits Offshoring Bad

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Administrator

So, Dr. Alan Blinder, an eminent American economist, Princeton professor and ardent freetrader for decades, is quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal as questioning the long-term effects of knowledge worker job foreign outsourcing on the US … Continue reading →

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sf.pm.org: Peter Thoeny talks about twiki

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Administrator

Peter Thoeny of TWiki and StructuredWikis gave a sf.pm.org talk tonite in San Francisco on wikis and knowledge management. About a dozen people attended. He said it was similar to a talk he gave at Google recently. Peter is the … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X: Icons Fall Out of the Dock?

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Administrator

Hi Macolytes. Any idea why an icon will fall out of the dock if the associated program crashes? I have noticed this problem several times with recent versions of Yahoo! Messenger (3.0 beta 1 build 18274). When YM crashes, its … Continue reading →

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People’s Amazing Variations

Posted on March 24, 2007 by Administrator

I’m often amazed with the physical and mental variations in people. When I first visited Indonesia, I was surprised to see that most women are flexible enough to easily bend their fingers back to their wrists, and some can also … Continue reading →

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