My Diversions

September 9, 2008

Books from India for the Win!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tom Davies @ 3:57 pm

I haven’t ordered this yet, but www.biblio.com has some tempting deals:

September 6, 2008

Google Translate to the Rescue!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tom Davies @ 10:44 am

I finally got around to ordering a new keyboard for my MacBook Pro, to replace the one which lost a few keys on our last Fedex Day.

I was a little nonplussed by this response via Paypal:

“The seller has provided the following Order Status information for your review: Order Status: 已发货”

So much for taking the supremacy of the English language for granted!

Fortunately Google Translate told me that this means ‘Posted’ — not ‘Running Dog of Capitalism will never see his filthy money again’.

July 29, 2008

I am on the front page of cuil!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tom Davies @ 2:35 pm

Well at least my picture is:

Perhaps the Sudbury, Ontario municipal sculptor will use that photo as a reference when they erect a statue honoring Tom Davies…

July 26, 2008

A New Blog

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tom Davies @ 4:17 pm

I’ve recently found myself not blogging because I didn’t wish to inflict the posts on Planet Atlassian. So now anything non-technical which I don’t think is of interest to subscribers to this blog (Hi to both of you!) appears here.

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