The world’s costliest comma
Remember kids; punctuation is important.
"Rogers thought… its contract was iron-clad until the spring of 2007 and could potentially be renewed for another five years. Armed with the rules of grammar and punctuation, Aliant disagreed[…]
The validity of the contract and the millions of dollars at stake all came down to one point — the second comma in the sentence."
There is something to be said for clarity in language use; I suspect that the lawyers for Rogers Communication may soon find themselves recepients of Eats shoots and leaves this Christmas.
Safari on Windows
…or more correctly, Webkit.
Swift is an unofficial Windows application which effectively acts wrapper around Webkit, the rendering engine behind Safari. Whilst the UI is clunky to say the least and that it's very much an alpha release (no context menus, anti-aliasing etc, no OSX magicary), it might be useful for those of you without access to a Mac1 [via Steve via mail].
If you have difficulties installing it, take a look at Anne's post.
- If you haven't, what are you waiting for? [back]
Retro Bollywood
I can't say that I'm the world's biggest fan of Bollywood nor the 70's but this YouTube video is strangely captivating in a David Brent sort of way. As the first commenter says, it's the entire 1970s captured in one man. They just don't make videos like this anymore.