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Monthly Archives: August 2009

You can see that from here!?

Monday, August 31, 2009

During our flight home from Japan, my wife noticed something odd from the window. Some of the pictures she took show what looks to be a large ship. We were very surprised that we were able to see it so well. More pictures and info below …

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Switching from KDE to WinXP #3 : Other Apps

Monday, August 24, 2009

Oops I just found this post in the drafts section and realized that even though I wrote it well over a year ago, I never posted it. Rather than leave it again, I am going to post it now and complete it with screenshots in the near future. This post is a bit out of [...]

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Translation Party Insights

Sunday, August 23, 2009

I just learned about Translation Party from this article on BBspot, so I went over to try it out. Translation Party is an interesting idea and pretty cool to play with. The idea is to translate an English sentence into Japanese, take the resulting Japanese sentence and translate it back into English, and repeat this [...]

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Netbooks

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Dell is going to discontinue 12-inch netbooks. After reading about it here and there on the net, I think two different stories are getting mixed up here. First is the overly fluid definition of “netbook” and which ones consumers want. The second story is the impact of titans like Intel and Microsoft on the market [...]

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