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  3. februar 2003


What language is that?

Second pOst provided a link to a very useful tool: TextCat Language Guesser Demo. If you encounter a webpage and wonder what language it is, paste a bit of the relevant text into it and make it give you a guess. Apparently this demo supports 77 languages. I tested a few languages, and it had no problem guessing them all reliably.

And, yes, it could tell me that this is Norwegian.

Learning and understanding the language takes a bit more time, though.


11:01:12 AM    comment []

The hotter side of revolution

Miguel's blog the Devil's Excrement has been flying high in the rankings lately, thanks to his brilliant on-the-spot-blogging from the civil unrest in Venezuela. I was, therefore, not entirely surprised to find that he received close to 4000 hits yesterday, but being the curious type, I checked his referrals list to see who had recommended him today.

Actually, this time it was not Miguel's talent for political analysis that had caught his audience, but his eye for beautiful women.

Obviously, I was not the only one having noticed that quite a few of the pictures from the street demonstrations in Caracas showed a number of remarkable beautiful women. Bomis Babe Report, a site that obviously enjoys a lot of traffic, linked and recommended the pictures section of Miguel's blog, with the following commentary:

That's not surprising, considering women in particular tend to be anti-Chavez (while goons, thugs and bullies seem to favor Chavez).

As far as political analysis goes, the babe watcher may well be accused of being shallow, but president Chavez has every reason to be nervous when he finds himself fighting the beautiful women of Venezuela.

Yes, of course I had to steal a picture from Miguel's blog to illustrate this article. Just to get the point across, mind you.


10:46:23 AM    comment []


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