The Chaoszone WeblogSoftware Development, Digital Rights, Life In India, and occasional bits of Mindless Link Propagation.Get your blog iPhone-ready- June 29, 2007 Apple&8217;s releasing a new phone today (if you didn&8217;t know that, you&8217;re lucky). Beside curing all manner of ills, the phone has a great web browser that should get people really interested in using the web while on the move. Now, the thing is lots of other phones have decent browsers &8212; many phones run Opera, ...http://www.chaoszone.org/when/2007/06/816 Most Brits spell "organize" wrong- June 26, 2007 Using -ise for words like &8216;maximise&8217; and &8216;organise&8217;&160;is a relatively new phenomenon in Britain, probably because maximize with a z looks too American to British eyes. In fact, the -ize form originated in Britain and is the preferred international form.http://www.chaoszone.org/when/2007/06/815 The Ladies of Grace-Adieu- June 19, 2007 I enjoyed reading Susanna Clarkes Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and so was especially glad to be able to read The Ladies of Grace-Adieu, her book of short stories (apparently her next novel is a ways off). The stories, (mostly) all written before the novel, foreshadow the excellent intermingling of dry wit and surrealism and ...http://www.chaoszone.org/when/2007/06/814 CNN-IBN covers Blackle, gets most of the story wrong- June 6, 2007 According to CNN-IBN &8220;Google has done its bit to save energy by launching Blackle &8212; a Google search page that saves energy&8221;, based on the theory that black pixels take less energy to display than white pixels. (Here&8217;s a screen-grab of the story.) There are at least two problems with this. First, this is not applicable ...http://www.chaoszone.org/when/2007/06/813 Weird Als Lasagna- June 1, 2007 I&8217;ve always liked Weird Al Yankovic, but I had never heard his Lasagna song, sung to the tune of La Bamba. (And if you&8217;ve never heard of Weird Al before, listen to his Jurassic Park and his&160;hilarious retelling of Star Wars Episode 1, sung to the tune of American Pie.)http://www.chaoszone.org/when/2007/06/810 |