I've got one PDF-to-Word package that gets the Croatian characters (šđžčć) mostly right, but puts everything in cute little frames (the ones it doesn't get right, it at least uses unique punctuation characters for), and another PDF-to-Word package that doesn't use the cute little frames, but transliterates all of the "special" characters with a ( Read more... )

An amusing (or scary?) item from Reuters via the Austin Area Translators Association Turkish law bans Q and W ( Read more... )

A long websurfing session led me to the following meandering page on microships, but really about life, technology, and electronic gadgets ( Read more... )

Given my readership here at LJ :-), there's a risk of this post planting some serious earworms ( Read more... )

I stumbled on this interesting item about the Antarctic Treaty...

http://60south.com/music/after_treaty.htm

Well, I tried to update, but the silly LJ software seems to require my coputer's clock to be set right. So *what* if my clock is off a few months ( Read more... )

A beautiful day here in Houston, high 70's, no humidity after yesterday's blue norther. I only went n to work for about three hours today ( Read more... )

Silmaril makes this journal thing look so easy, I thought I'd try ( Read more... )