Archive for September, 2005

Je viens de découvrir que l’organe de la vue s’écrit “Oeil”. Moi depuis tout petit je l’ai toujours écrit “Oeuil”. C’est la première faute d’ortographe que j’ai conscience de faire souvent, et ça me fait chier. (Bon la grammaire on repassera, mais tout de même…)

J’ai remarqué également que mon Outlook 2003 a corrigé mon “Oeuil” pour le remplacer par le mot “Poil”.

Je suis sûr qu’il y a un lien.

Well, the current job I have landed at requires me to work with Windows alot. Perhaps a bit more than I’d like, but still, I get to appreciate some things in windows-land and also despise alot of small things that make my daily life hell.

But apart from that, I stick to my true Unix roots and try to do as much as possible with the command prompt — not out of pride, or some other political reasons, but rather because I like command prompts. They indeed make me all mushy inside and moist down the pants for a very sadistic and wrong reason. I just find that I am more efficient with them.

So, I stumbled across a few things that made my daily journey into text input land alot more pleasant, and I will share them with you. Read the rest of this entry »