Monthly Archives: May 2002

The SlashDot article on Spoofing with Unicode linked to this provocative essay about the inherent flaws in Unicode, especially in terms of supporting Asian languages. There’s some good background info there as well.

Over at SlashDot there’s a discussion about an article in Scientific American describing how a pair of students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology registered “microsoft.com” with Verisign, using the Russian Cyrillic letters “c” and “o”. Even though it is … Continue reading →

I’m beginning to get the hang of Radio, I think. I wanted to move my IT blog to Radio from BloggerPro, not because I don’t like Blogger (I do like it, very much, and am still using Blogger for my … Continue reading →

Thanks to Lawrence Lee, Robert Occhialini and Aaron Cope, there are instructions and a script to download and run that allows you to import xml formatted blog entries from Movable Type and Blogger into Radio. You can read all about … Continue reading →

There’s an interesting thread on SlashDot about when and how to comment code. Lots of programmers seem to think that comments are a waste of time, but when I interview a programmer I always ask about how and when the … Continue reading →