Monthly Archives: February 2005
Ze drem vil finali kum tru
| 25/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General |
European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, “s” will be used instead of the soft “c”. Sertainly, sivill servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard “c” will be replaced with “k”. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typwriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced by “f”. This will make words like “fotograf” 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Government will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “e”‘s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” by “z” and “w” by “v”. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivon vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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Anna Kournikova Penthouse
| 16/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under News |
Richard Giles writes
?For 15 days I held the no.1 spot on Google for the term ‘Anna Kournikova Penthouse,’ the 3rd most popular search term. Obviously Google traffic is many times large that Overtures. Whilst that traffic was useless to me, imagine what a site selling Anna Kournikova posters could have done with my 40,000 plus Anna Kournikova Penthouse related visitors. Using a blog to jump on news stories, and then redirect traffic, does appear to me to be a feasible net marketing tactic. Bloggers will hate me saying that, but hey, I didn’t invent the technology, or decide how Google rates weblogs.”.
Wonder if that could happen to me? 
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Eye Catching Headlines
| 16/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General |
- The Secret To Making People Like You
- How To Win Friends And Influence People
- Do You Make These Mistakes In English?
- How I Improved My Memory In 24 Hours
- Throw Away Your Oars
- 7 Steps To Freedom
- Confessions Of A Disbarred Lawyer
- How To Pay Zero Taxes
From http://blog.outer-court.com/pageboost/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robotii.co.uk%2F
I just saw www.robotii.co.uk.
(…)
It must have taken weeks to finalize the page. The page contains 119 links, a superb amount. The color scheme is influenced by tribal art. Seeing Images of Broken Light, I’m simply in awe. There are 43,721 characters in the source for this page, which is a splendid length for Yahoo. Just perfect. Another pro: setigermany.de put up a link to this page. What a superb page! Glorious. The underlying source is very professional. Yes, I expected the creator to succeed. The URL has 25 characters. That’s just the right size. If only IBM would have a superb page like that. So inspiring… one of the best works out there.”
– Gunther Miller, Top URLs
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Gifts
| 15/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General, Play |
I found this cool quote on the internet today at
http://surinderxx.blogspot.com/2005/02/special-gifts.html
Valentines day
| 14/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General |
From Gmail
A Google approach to “V”-mail.
No, not voice-mail. Valentine’s Day mail. According to the Greeting Card Association, one billion valentine cards are sent each year. That’s a lot. Good thing we no longer give the large, hand-painted heart-shaped copperplate prints that they used to pass around during the 1800′s.
Still, that’s a lot of mail. And that doesn’t even include all the e-cards and emails that get sent around. It makes us smile to think about all the messages of friendship and love that people share on this day. And we wanted to share ours (we wanted to send chocolate too, but it was too hard).
Shame, I like my chocolate straight from the fridge!
Happy Valentine’s Day from the Gmail Team
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Leaving Comments
| 11/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General |
If you visit this site could you please leave a nice comment.
Thanks,
Pete.
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Firefox Vulnerabilities
| 8/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General |
See here for http://justagirlintheworld.com/
And so it begins, indeed.
I think we’ll start to see more and more exploit vulnerability as these browsers gain more and more popularity. It will be interesting to see if FireFox is the tight browser choice that some die hard FF’ers have always claimed it to be.
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How to make firefox tabs smaller
| 8/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General |
How to make firefox tabs smaller… put the following in userchrome.css
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */
/* Shrink tab titles by 10% */
.tabbrowser-tabs .tab-text {
font-size: 90%;
}
/* make inactive tabs hardly visible
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Open Source
| 7/2/2005 | Posted by Pete under General |
The following open source programs are those that I use on a regular basis
Open Office
£150 to £200 is a lot of money and why fork over the cash if you can get something that does the job just as well, can read and write MS word and excel files (.doc and .xls) and is free. There is even a mac version too!
Firefox
Firefox will work with most website and it has features that IE doesn’t like tabbed browsing, a pop up blocker and a great text search feature (hint – press Ctrl-F once you’ve installed it and look at the bottom of the browser window) So get it now.
Tip: Once you got it installed you can press ctrl-t and it’ll open up a new browser tab – this is one of the most valuable features
Resources: Reasons to switch from Mozilla website. FireFox Help website.
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