Friday, July 11, 2008

no youtube for turkey

my friend in turkey told me that youtube has been banned in turkey because somebody criticized an old turkish politician there so a judge banned it like 2 months ago. i thought only china did stuff like that? guess not...

Friday, July 4, 2008

placebo is a latin word

placebo effect
A placebo (Latin for "I shall please")

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

man from uncle


i am finally an uncle! thank you B and N =)

Friday, May 30, 2008

norwegian word containing a c

there are not too many norwegian words that have a "c" in them:
http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/ordboksoek/ordbok.cgi?OPP=%25c%25&bokmaal=S%F8k+i+Bokm%E5lsordboka&ordbok=bokmaal&alfabet=n&renset=j
(that link only gives you one page of results, there are more then what is shown there)

the one i just thought of now was:
scene / scenen

how to be an IT consultant

1. trial and error
2. google.com
3. rtfm
4. pray for help =)

in that order.

Monday, April 21, 2008

homonym: polish and polish

i just realized that polish and polish are homonyms =)