Bohème Sauvage is THE 1920s Burlesque Party of Berlin. This is there 7th party. I went to the last one and it was very well done. Quite a unique atmosphere. STRICT dress code! I will be there this Saturday after a day of moving and painting.
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
Its a hard problem and not many people are tacking it in the web development world. Heres some research into presenting content in different languages via HTML.
To frame the problem heres a good break down of the three technical issues:
There are three considerations for presenting HTML in non-English languages. First, that the document is delivered in the desired natural language (such as English, French, etc.) and dialect (US, British, etc.). Second, that the document is presented in the correct character set. This is a requirement for most Eastern languages (Russian, Japanese, etc.). Third, that the document is presented in the correct directionality. This is a consideration for languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese that are customarily written right-to-left or top-to-bottom.
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I have about 6 different Wordpress installs on my host. One for me, one for my company TSD and 3-4 for friends and family on sub domains. The issues I have with it are:
- Upgrading is a pain
- Sharing plugin-ins is a pain
- Gets worse for every new blog I install
So I tried to modify the WP code so that it could be installed (and upgraded) in one place and then used for many blogs on the same server. I found out that as it stands WP’s design doesn’t scale very well. I guess it wasn’t meant to, but when you work with it you get the feeling it could…
Continue reading ‘Why WordPress can’t be shared’
“I was implying that the Honourable Member for Wentworth was like a lizard on a rock - alive, but looking dead.”
“I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman’s hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness.”
“That you Jim? Paul Keating here. Just because you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about 15 doesn’t give you the right to pour a bucket of shit over the rest of us.”
And finally in Melbourne a few years back there was a lot of noise in the media after one politician accused another of “having a couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock”
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