Monthly Archives: October 2009

If you read a lot of web articles, chances are you have stumbled upon “i.e.” and “e.g.” in these essays. As a matter of fact, chances are you also misinterpreted them as “in example” and “example”. First of all, “in … Continue reading →

As the third most spoken language in the world, it’s no wonder English has so many accents and spelling variations. But for anyone who’s learned French, or any French who’s learned English, there comes a striking difference with both languages … Continue reading →

Today, I logged in my computer at work and Secunia PSI told me Windows itself was insecure and that I should update it. However, while checking for updates on Windows Update on that Windows XP SP3 machine, to no avail, … Continue reading →

“Téléverser”, the official word for “to upload” by the Office Québécois de la langue française, doesn’t exist in Google Docs (or Gmail or anything else Google)’s dictionary. “Courriel”, the official word for “email” by the Office Québécois de la langue … Continue reading →

Now that Google Chrome supports Open Video as of somewhere along a version 3 update (hint. if you have the latest version, you got Open Video support), it’s time to make a table of where all of it is. Here’s … Continue reading →

How many times have I heard the word Template pronounced as tem-pleyt by Canadian French people? I can’t count it. How many times have I heard the word Template pronounced as tem-pleyt by Canadian English people? I can’t count it. … Continue reading →

So, OMG, big news, or is it not. I was just so baffled today when I discovered my new chromium build, which is version 4.0, supported HTML 5 video just like Firefox, with yet another player interface which is fortunately … Continue reading →

Yahoo Meme just opened its API. Great, really, but it looks like they just don’t care. To go to Yahoo Meme, I’m forced to typing meme.yahoo.com. That’s cumbersome, too much when I can just type Facebook.com or Twitter.com, or even … Continue reading →

Just take around the comments on iTunes and you’ll notice that if it’s not some country songs from Taylor Swift, there is bound to be at least 2 or 3 defamatory comments of hate about the artist. Based on what … Continue reading →

Unfortunately for Microsoft, the web was invented on UNIX-like systems, and as end users increase their use of the web, the way things are done in Linux and other UNIX-like systems is more and more aligned with the way the … Continue reading →