Sagittarius Horoscope for week of January 23, 2014
I understand the appeal of the f-word. It's guttural and expulsive. It's a perverse form of celebration that frees speakers from their inhibitions. But I'm here today to announce that its rebel cachet and vulgar power are extinct. It has decayed into a barren cliche. Its official death-from- ( Read more... )

Windows supports just over 3800 kanji (Japanese ideographic characters--the majority of their writing system).

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For the last few days, my Windows 7 Pro has lost its East Asian Language Support. Which means, among a few things, I can't translate the titles of dozens of anime soundtrack songs I have loaded onto WinAmp. The foreign characters display fine on Internet Explorer and other programs, but not on internal Win7 functions like directories and ( Read more... )

Not only is the title "Sky Fighters" the official English translation for the title of the Chinese fighter jet movie I mentioned previously this week, it is the popular translation (official too!) for the title of the French fighter jet film Les Chevaliers Du Ciel from a few years ago.

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As you may remember, I was following the Mainland Chinese Air Force's process to select a new paint scheme for their aerobatic demo team's planes. And that I posted filched videos on YouTube showing the proposed schemes ( Read more... )

Ow!

Mom just pre-ordered a Kobo. No further details are known at this time.

The local NPR station produces a music history program called Echoes Of The Golden Age, and tonight's show was about drinking songs in opera. So that concept sparked a discussion between myself and Mum about her knowledge of drinking songs, and she told me a story ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of February 4, 2010In the Choctaw language, there are two kinds of past tenses. In one, you speak about an event or experience that you personally know to be a fact. In the other, you deliver information that you have acquired second-hand and therefore can't definitely vouch for. In my perfect world, you Sagittarians ( Read more... )