Monthly Archives: September 2006

Of mice and marketroids

By mpj | Published: 24 September, 2006
For the past decade or so I’ve maintained that Microsoft should drop their useless software side and focus on what they do best: hardware. I’m having a hard time admitting it, but much of the hardware Microsoft puts out is actually pretty good. I loved the original 1995 Microsoft Natural Keyboard, and their first sausage-shaped [...]
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Peace, man

By mpj | Published: 14 September, 2006
There’s a page discussing the Muslim greeting of “assalaamu alaykum” (peace be upon you). A snippet: There are certain situations under which it is preferable not to offer salaam. These include; when a person is relieving himself, when one is having marital relationship, when someone is sleeping or when in the bathroom. I can think of a [...]
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Check your spelling

By mpj | Published: 12 September, 2006
I ran into a list of denied Finnish surname change applications. Agape, Agart, Alexzandrowich, Ardin, Axeliin, Axeliini, Axo, Balans, Banderas, Basswood, Bluefild, Campos, Canneliin, Carra, Citronen, Cobra, Corleone, Cristaldi, Cultti, D Arc, Dillinger, d Elèrs, Diezel, Enbäkg, Faithfull, Falkenberger, Falkenbergk, FireIsland, Firèl, Florestan, Fogelgrén, Gansenberger, Garrel, Garré, Gere, Graal, Gramén, Grossbergh, Haffuer, Haze, Heartlove, Hesring, Helysee, [...]
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One down, way too many to go

By mpj | Published: 4 September, 2006
I forgot to mention this earlier: An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus’ miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa. Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle, and he attempted it from a beach in Gabon’s capital of Libreville. “He told churchgoers he’d had a revelation [...]
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