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After nearly a week of wasting my time with Virgin Mobile Canada,I am giving it my best last try using hard-learned customer support skills: ….Follow up to the phone call on Thursday and lack of returned call. I am unable to activate my new HTC Wildfire S phone on a pre-paid plan. I enter . . . →Read More:Hello (again) Virgin Mobile. Good bye Virgin Mobile? Image via Wikipedia For my other project,I needed to process some Arabic text that was in HTML file derived from MSWord document. Everything was going reasonably well,except my regular expressions were not picking section name/numbers sequences in all of the cases,which was causing a problem with the 6-language alignment algorithm. Normally, . . . →Read More:Arabic numerals’non-WYSIWYG I really do not get Wired Magazine’s subscription policy. They are supposed to target smart geeks,yet make really stupid moves. I used to be a subscriber. But I got annoyed by a large number of ads,deliberate and unnecessary foul language and subscription inserts advertising $8 new subscriptions. So,I did not renew early. . . . →Read More:Weird Wired Magazine (or maybe just stupid) No,I am not complaining about food. I love food. And I love it different and –sometimes even –adventurous. Which is where Sour Grapes come in. We have been walking around the neighborhood and have discovered Middle Eastern shop with some unusual but recognizable foods and some not-quite-recognizable ones. Our strategy with the . . . →Read More:Cooking sour grapes Watching the 21 Accents video (via Neatorama) made me think that different languages/accents seemed to require different mouth positions. Is it possible that some phonemes are only achievable with the mouth wide-stretched in a smile? Then loading a language with such phonemes would be one way to ensure people appear friendly to strangers whatever the . . . →Read More:Languages that make you smile While reading weka Data Mining book,I have come across this impressive example of using machine learning to confirm person’s authorship (p. 358). In 19th century,there lived a famous rabbinic scholar Ben Ish Chai,who among other writings had two collections of letters. Ben Ish Chai claimed that only one collection was his and . . . →Read More:On uselessness of pretending to be somebody else What could be common between Computational Linguistics and Aerobics? Quite a lot,as it turns out to be. Dance descriptions,while not really in English do have a regular structure and can be thought of as a sub-language with full set of syntactic,semantic and pragmatic levels. There are basic words of the language (move . . . →Read More:Parsing jumping jacks I just found my own oldest webpage (handcoded) and my oldest public source code (Java) at once. Archive.org –that has hosted this long-dead memory since 1999 –is just so great. Looking back at it,I realise that I was right in the thick of Internet development: When I just started working with Java, . . . →Read More:Memories,memories I want to get my parents a digital picture frame. But at the moment I cannot. That’s because I don’t want my somewhat less-technical parents to have to fiddle with memory cards,choosing and transferring photographs or running Vista. My ideal digital picture frame for them would be one sitting in a living room or . . . →Read More:Chumby:Digital picture frame for parents and much more I have seen plenty of visual illusions –both static and moving –but I have never seen a rotating human figure as an optical illusion. Took a while to even convince myself it was not a joke. I did work it out in the end (after a hint). The secret –at least for . . . →Read More:Amazing animated visual illusion –rotating female figure | ||||
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