In Russian, I can build 12 different cozy, informal names from the formal name ??. And seven of them would even sound good. # On2, a company developed probably most popular VP6 Flash video codec, is acquired by Google # "And then the market shifts…" How to grow properly: http://is.gd/24GyX (start from the slide 40). …
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The nightmare of a control freak: the most important question of your life is being decided, and you have no control about it whatsoever. # Incredible: play that MP3 with looping, and it will ascend forever http://tinyurl.com/lqhjnr (other illusions http://tinyurl.com/kot5sr) # Gadgets are materialized emotions, not just things http://tinyurl.com/ncyfq8 # Will Silverlight 4.0 also contain …
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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: ??? ????! …
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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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Happy July 4! As somebody born in USSR, I’m thankful to USA for living in a free democratic country. BBQ party in Fuerth. # Todays bike trip stats: D=77 km, Vavg=23,8 kmh. # One of the biggest bugs in human nature: you cannot donate your energy and mood to other person, as you can do …
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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 …
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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? # …
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Are we in the middle of a search engine war? I dunno if Google already had this http://bit.ly/2abrq or is it a response to Bing? # http://bit.ly/Hduz In a startup, you first care about the right corner, then about the top corner, and then, about the left corner. # ?? “happy” is very symbolic – …
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Looking at picture of 5 different tonal levels in Cantonese. Good: they use only 9 tones of 25 mathematically possible. Bad: I can’t sing. # Now I know why Mandarin is recommended for beginners. There, they have only two levels and 4 tones. How easy is that… # hr sendete gerade faszinierende Eröffnungsshow der Internationalen …