A smile and nod
(5/22/2008)The old joke goes: if you know three languages, you’re trilingual; if you know two languages, you’re bilingual; and if you know only one language, you’re an American.
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Pills with bank accounts
(5/16/2008)In high school, the Spanish teachers would always warn about the perils of using the Babel Fish service to quickly translate to and from English and Spanish. It gets better (read: more entertaining) with non-cognate languages.
Yesterday’s Web: Netscape and friends
(3/31/2008)In honor of Run Some Old Web Browsers Day and the tenth anniversary of the Mozilla Project, I’ve managed to get some ancient versions of Mosaic, Netscape, and the like running on my Mac. Screenshots abound.
October through January
(1/31/2008)Time to slim down my “need to blog about but can’t find the time for” folder. Since there’s currently a whopping 171 bookmarks in it, I’ll start with everything since October.
How things work (or don’t)
(9/26/2007)Briefly: Python, Excel, Google, MySpace.