There was going to be a 4-day rock concert in Tehran, but it looks like it got cancelled. Does this sort of thing happen all the time, and we just never hear about it? Topic covered in Persian at Hossein Derakhshan's Weblog: کنسرت راک در تهران
This one's for Chris, still looking for that perfect rotary phone...
I'm just old enough to remember telephone exchanges. When I was a tot, phone numbers began with a two-letter EXchange code (mine was AL, for ALpine) and we always began our number "AL5" rather than "255".
Today, I came across the Telephone EXchange Name Project, a way-cool way for we ageing boomers to get our retro rocks off. Thanks to the site's mammoth database, I now know that our current phoneEX is HOward. Next time I have a batch of biz cards printed, I'm gonna use the old-fashioned phone number style.
“Put it in ‘quotes’”, he said. So I did.
This thus shows the result of using 'smart quotes' - in the line above, but not in this one - with MovableType.
I'll update this later after I find out what happens.
“Big test. Very ‘big’ test.” (1)
“Big test. Very ‘big’ test.” (2)
UPDATE: After some experimenting, mutatron has been half-converted to UTF-8 encoding. Part of this experiment was trying several ways to generate paired quotes, which can cause severe breakdowns in software if not handled properly.
For the technically minded, the first line at the top uses XML numeric entities. The first test line (1) uses HTML named entities, and the test line (2) uses UTF-8 encoding.
The last is perferable because it allows cut and paste. Unfortunately, for this to work properly, the posting pages must also be marked UTF-8. I haven't quite worked out how to do that in MovableType, although I'm close.
For now, some things look very strange. That last test line, which begins “Big test does not look that way in the edit page. I see “Big test, but it all comes out OK in the end. Once the edit page is also set to be UTF-8, then everything should look just fine.
Nearly 400,000 people in England and Wales claim to follow the "Jedi" religion, according to the latest U.K. census. As if we needed any further proof that the world is totally f*cked.
The only possible bright spot in this is the possibility that these people aren't all drooling fanboys. The initial email calling on people to claim "Jedi" as their religion suggested that respondents could do so either to show their love of Star Wars, "or just to annoy people."
I'm really praying for the latter.
The BBC's piece on this story is here.