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On one of my blogs, there used to be automatically generated link posts via Delicious.com. The method was never very reliable, and I abandoned it as it was never updated from its rather basic fun...

https://chryss.eu/2011/09/friday-link-dispatch-01/

Yesterday, the a new major version of the Unicode Standard was published in Unicode 6.0, a year after version 5.2 and more than four after the last major upgrade to 5.0. There is of course a slew...

https://chryss.eu/2010/10/welcome-unicode-60-and-your-crazy-stable-of-symbols/

In the Twitter client Tweetdeck, and on my Twitter page itself, I run a search for “i18n”: the frequently used abbreviated form of “internationalization” (or “internationalisation” in...

https://chryss.eu/2010/08/twitters-american-airlines-i18n-mystery/

A few days ago, my friend Melinda Shore, who knows I’m interested in internationalization, sent me a screenshot from the search bar of her Safari browser. It is a drop-down list of search sugge...

https://chryss.eu/2010/08/googles-h-mystery/

The polling stations for the UK General Election 2010 have closed, the exit poll predicts a hung (some call it “balanced”) parliament, a loss of seats of the Liberal Democrats, and a Conserva...

https://chryss.eu/2010/05/votes-on-facebook/

In late October last year, I travelled to North America. One leg of the trip was a flight from San Francisco (think sun, palm trees, T-shirt weather) to Toronto. This was my second trip to Toront...

https://chryss.eu/2009/01/how-would-you-like-your-temperatures-today-french-or-imperial/