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?????????: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/opera/65024/ ??? ? ????, ??? ????? ??????? ? ????, ??????? ????????? ??? ????? IE6. # Interesting idea! RT @infoq Slow Down to Speed Up Profits http://bit.ly/VqAvy # Learning new chinese chars again. Filling a whole page with one symbol seems to be a kind of meditation. # #apple #notebook :) RT @XaocCPS: ??? ????! …

This Week in Twitter

These anti-IE6 notes appeared everywhere lately are just arrogant. Aren’t you supposed to create HTML, which is also usable without CSS? # Even http://www.digitalwpc.com looks broken on my IE6. O tempora, o mores. # RT @Damir Nice quote “The best solution to piracy is to deliver clear value”. Yes, but the value must be also …

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Sure sign of a great blog post are even greater comments: http://tinyurl.com/mz96on # How to cope with death? http://tinyurl.com/2f2uks # After a pause, tested chinese chars: 65% written correctly, 19% with errors and 16% couldn’t write. Damn ? just don’t want to be learned. # I didn’t know ISO has standardized codes for representation of …

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RT @OneMicrosoftWayDeep Zoom Composer June 2009 Preview arrives – http://arst.ch/3qa # Many folks I know have started to learn a new foreign language recently. Wondering if it is a local fluctuation or a global trend. # Wer möchte unsonst Musik hören? :) http://tinyurl.com/ksgfsr # At some days, I write more phrases in English (here) than …

Kübler-Ross model

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kübler-Ross model, commonly known as the five stages of grief, was first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying”. It describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or …

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@Damir, speaking with the voice of S. Adams’ Topper: My bike tour was 5:25h, and 120 km to Bamberg and back. I’m so tired I can’t even twit # Yet another acronym learned: I18N # Nice intro to Opera Unite http://is.gd/13o9S. Unfortunately it is Opera-only. Re-implement that with .NET Service Bus and SL3 OOB? # …

One thing chinese is missing to be lingua franca

English is lingua franca de facto. How Chinese compares to it? Like in English, you have to learn around 800 words to be able to participate in conversation in the minimum level and around 5000 words for common daily usage. Like in English, the grammar is pretty simple, words are not changing depending on how you use them, …