Hardly anybody turned up here after I wrote my little news report. So I am a little sad about that. Never mind.
I don’t really have anything else to talk about so I will go. It’s not like anyone is reading this anyway, right? Well, that’s not entirely true. A few people read it.
Bye!
As I just said, whenever I write about news, my visits spike. And often there is a corresponding increase in ad clicks. So I will write about some stuff in the news to see whether lots of people turn up here.
Paul Wolfowitz resigned from the World Bank. Apparently Tony Blair is up for the job, as is a New Zealander, whose name I cannot remember.
What else is in the news? Well, David Bain was released last week. That’s old news, and New Zealand only news, so perhaps people don’t care too much about that. He’s on bail, might I add. I have no idea whether he actually did it. I did read Joe Karam’s book, but it was a long time ago. The media, particularly TV3, seem to think he’s innocent. And there’s misinformation out there that the Privy Council thinks he didn’t do it. Appeal courts, usually, don’t decide on the facts. They just found that there was a miscarriage of justice in the lower courts. Not “just” as in a miscarriage of justice isn’t a big deal, but “just” as in they didn’t express an opinion on his guilt. (Not that I have read their opinion.)
Other things, internationally. Well, the US TV networks had the upfronts last week. That’s when they show off their new shows for next season to the advertisers. Upfronts is probably going to be a good visitor-grabber. People will be searching for that. Sadly, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled. Quite a good show. I think it’s back on NBC this week or next. Not sure about the day or time though. And Donald Trump just quit (before he was pushed) from the Apprentice. Apparently he has a bigger better TV show in the works.
David Hicks, the Australian al-Qaeda guy, who was in Guantanamo Bay for a long time, returned to Australia to serve the remainder of his sentence there.
Oh, and there was the first ever South African-only Super 14 final last week. Nobody cared about it here.
So that was a very useless news roundup but it’s only here for a test to see if people actually read it. Wolfowitz would be a big visitor-bringer too.
I haven’t said anything useful for a while. And this is no different. I just noticed that when you type Ctrl+Shift+Q in Word 2007, it changes the selection to use the Symbol font. I can’t really think of a reason that would be useful. How did I find this out? I was trying to do Ctrl+Shift+A to make a selection all caps but had the keyboard in the French layout (which has A and Q swapped around, among other things).
What else have I found out? Well, whenever I write a new post on here, I get a spike in traffic for a few days after. And by spike I mean people actually visit. Very cool. If I write about something in the news, more people come. So I think I will test that theory. But not in this post because it’s not 100% about the news. So I will write another. Goodbye. For now.
I installed IIS on Vista the other day, but haven’t done anything with it yet. But today I was visiting a poorly configured site that redirected to localhost, and I got an error message (as the file didn’t exist). But it was in French.
That it was in French isn’t too big a surprise (having had my computer set up for French while I was over there) but I was sure everything was back to English. I checked my Internet Explorer language settings and the two preferences were EN-nz and FR-fr.
So I added EN-us to the mix, between the two, and the message appeared in English.
What does that mean? It means that the localisation in IIS isn’t working properly. At least not like the .NET Framework one does. Actually maybe that is how it’s supposed to work, but it’s not how I’d expect it to. It was looking for a specific localised resource for EN-nz. When it couldn’t find that, rather than finding a generic EN resource, it went to the next one in my preferences, FR-fr.
I’m not sure what most users would want – the language to be one of the exact language+culture combinations they’ve chosen, or that the language is what matters most and if the language is available, they should get any culture’s variant of that language. I’d prefer the latter. However it doesn’t really matter because I understood both.
What is Zemobo?
It’s something new and exciting that I’m working on, and I’ll be sharing more about it with you here.
A bit cryptic, I know, but good things take time…
Hello.
I am back in New Zealand now. Got back on Thursday morning.
That’s all I have to say about that for the time being.