Ethereal is a tool I always use when I have any kind of network related problems. Be it a firewall dropping packets, a server that incorrectly sets cookies or even an overly clever application that tries to obscure the exact network resources it uses. Ethereal collects that network data all the way up and down [...]
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If I ever do get to write a PhD, I will have to make sure to run it through this detector (as well covered in the New Scientist). Seriously though, this sounds like a great way to show off the computational linguistics (or more specifically data/text mining) experiments. Hopefully such projects will make the field [...]
Roger Shuy describes the original goals of American Association of Applied Linguistics and progress (or in his opinion) retreat from those goals that happened over the last 30 years.
I started to write a comment on it, but realised that it needs fine-tuning. So, I will skip my thinking for now, apart from saying that [...]
I am an idealist inside. But I keep that well hidden. So, when I look at something that needs to be done, I search for the low hanging fruit. Grand ambitions are fine, but if they are not backed up by the near term useful solutions, everything will stagnate and die.
With Esperanto, the core [...]
Guy Kawasaki writes about the art of customer service. While all of the points are applicable, he did not take the one about integrating customer service into the mainstream far enough.
He talks that customer service people receiving accolades as much as sales, engineering and marketing. That’s great. But what about actively helping them to do [...]
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There is a great commercial service out there for those interested in learning English. It is called theLinguist and is run by the polyglot Steve Kaufmann (with 9 languages and more on the way, he more than deserves the label). Steve’s approach is very unconventional, but I think in a good way. It is run [...]
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Every couple of years World Esperanto Association (UEA) makes a statement at United Nations to pay more attention to linguistic inequality and (at least a couple of years ago) to consider teaching Esperanto as per UNESCO’s recommendation in 1985. Usually nothing happens out of it. UEA is an NGO registered with United Nations, but [...]
I have read Science Fiction stories based around physics, chemistry, biology and computers. But I have not seen one before based around linguistics. For all I know there are many of them out there and I just wasn’t interested before.
I am interested now, and so I really enjoyed “We Have Always Spoken Panglish” story by [...]
Exactly a month ago, I went to a reunion for my alma mater in New York. At it, there was a presentation by Ms Melanie Hardman, who is an Innovation Director for PepsiCo.
After the presentation I taked briefly to Melanie and asked whether PepsiCo looked at advertising or sponsoring events in virtual worlds such as [...]
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One of my conversations was commented on by Dr Anton Chuvakin. I had replied to him in his comments, but unfortunately he keeps reposting the article to new services without bothering to address the reply, so I am putting it here as a central reference.
Basically, Anton (if I may call him this) thinks that the [...]
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