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Strange Chinese names
I always knew some celebrities have the strangest names. These two are choices for food: Fruit Chan and Noodle Cheng. Fruit Chan Fruit Chan Gor (traditional Chinese: 陳果) is an independent Hong Kong...
View Article“We decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1”
And so… Windows 7 is the name for the new version of Windows, the successor of Windows Vista. The thing is… It actually is Windows 6.1 if you check system properties and this has been confirmed by the...
View ArticleDid you know what does CAPTCHA stand for?
Back in the days of the army – actually that was just 2 years old but I like to make it sound real long ago – we always had different courses to attend, different software systems to use. And they...
View ArticleSourceForge changes name to Geeknet
Here’s the news: SourceForge, Inc. Changes its Name to Geeknet, Inc. MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Nov. 4, 2009 – SourceForge, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNUX) today announced that it has changed its name to Geeknet,...
View ArticleWhat’s gorilla gorilla gorilla
Did you know that the scientific name of Western Lowland Gorilla is “Gorilla gorilla gorilla”? Bet you don’t; I don’t too. If you’re interested in Gorilla gorilla gorilla, head to Wikipedia.
View ArticleWhat my Chinese name meant in Japanese
Well nobody really explained to me why my name is chosen for me. At the later age, I have made the assumption that it probably is a good name and I just have to trust whoever gave me the name, that...
View ArticleiTouch
For some reason I get slightly irritated when others call “iPod touch” just “iTouch” and I try to not understand what it means until they call it by the proper name.
View ArticleChing Chong Chinaman
So… Today I learnt the meaning of the Chinese characters “清创佬”. According to Google Translates…
View ArticleOn Crazy Horse’s family
Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó (in Standard Lakota Orthography), literally “His-Horse-Is-Crazy” or “His-Horse-Is-Spirited” ; ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the...
View ArticleLetting go of my old Delicious account
I am too attached to my old Delicious account. I spent more than an hour attempting to migrate links that I have collected from my old Delicious account to my new one (just because I want a change of...
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