Chinese language under attack

The Chinese written language has survived thousands of years of turmoil and foreign invasion. It survived the transition from classical Chinese to the modern, simplified version, and it even survived the deadening slogans of Maoist propaganda. But it has never suffered anything quite like the indignities of the latest threat.

Storing Photos Online

There have been several place that I've used (or seen others use) to place their photos on the internet

One of the first I tried was photopoint which is now out of business. That's where I won my Fuji camera.

Another early one was webshots. I still have some photos there, but I haven't used it for new photos lately.

Then there is Yahoo! I'm using this as my stand-by for quick uploads of photos.

Lately, I've been uploading the photos to imageshack and then creating webpages linking the photos stored there.

I even used myspace.com and added photos to my blog (though the photos were uploaded to imageshack). Come to think of it, I probably could do that here on blogger too.

(For example, here's a pretty neat graphic that Brian posted as a comment on Bob's myspace.)



The Kodak Gallery seems to be popular with some people I know.

Now the latest one I'm looking at is flickr, which is now part of Yahoo!

[7/20/07] Yahoo photos will be closing on 9/20/07 and is being supplanted by flickr. Flickr is now the second most popular photo site trailing photobucket, which apparently leads by a mile. Yahoo is allowing users to transfer their photos to flickr as well as shutterfly, photobucket, Kodak Gallery, snapfish.

The Google Plan

The invention of the personal computer marked the first revolution in the way business is conducted. The advent of the Internet was the second. Google's expansion is the third.

It is by no means the end of the story, though. Ultimately, the original Google search engine, the Gmail, the Appliances, the virtual office--all of these may amount to the least of the company's accomplishments.

So, what does this brave new future envisioned by the young Turks at Google actually look like?

Restore deleted files

Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin
or deleted while holding down the Shift key by
mistake.

Conversely, this program has another function that
makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted
files.

You can use it after deletion of confidential
documents, embarrassing files and so on.

http://www.sofotex.com/Restoration-download_L9327.html

-- from frwr-news

wikiHow

wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual. It's apparently not connected to wikipedia, but seems to be created along the same lines.

-- from Cool Tricks and Trinkets #381

Uncyclopedia

The Uncyclopedia is the greatest achievement of mankind at the height of his splendor.

Or alternatively -- Uncyclopedia, "the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", is a parody of Wikipedia, although Uncyclopedia claims the reverse.

So what is Wikipedia? (Wilde wilde wicked) Wikipedia (also spelt "Wikipaedia" and sometimes they get all snooty and use one of these things, "æ" like this:"Wikipædia"), is a tragic parody of Uncyclopedia, although Wikipedia claims the reverse.

-- Uncyclopedia reference from Cool Tricks and Trinkets #344

Internet Explorer Headers and Footers

If you print a web page from Internet Explorer, you get a header with the window title and a footer with the url. To disable this, go to page setup and wipe out all the codes in those fields.

To find out what the codes mean, put the cursor in the field and press F1. Want to put them back? The defaults are

header: &w&bPage &p of &P T

footer: &u&b&d

What's the password?

Keep forgetting your passwords? One way would be to save them in a file on your computer. (I've been using bouncer software for that purpose for a while. I don't see it available now, but I see some similar programs available on the net.) But what happens if you're not on your computer? Or worse, if you computer crashes?

Lately, I've been using passwordsafe.com for saving my passwords on the internet. It's been around for a while, so I assume it's relatively secure. Of course, nothing is completely hacker-proof.

French to ban free software?

The French government may be about to make free software illegal.

-- from frwr-news