Category: Work

Brain > Language Area > glitch!


I was writing earlier today, and was stuck on something that was too colloquial. So I went to a Web page that does translations.
This is why it’s odd ; I was writing in French. Yet the Web page I had loaded was for French to English translations.

So for my brain what was “colloquial French” was obviously a language different than French. And the default when I’m not writing in French seems to be English [it is the case].

I guess that explains why I loaded the French to English dictionary.

But that was not the end of it. I wrote on IRC that I was stuck with some colloquial French and that I couldn’t find any good English equivalent. A colleague offered a few silly stuff and a valid suggestion.

Only when I returned to my draft with that English suggestion did I realise that the language was French.

Odd, isn’t it?

On spam…

I usually receive spam to enhance my manhood, or make her moan in bed, or buy a gorgeous replica watch. However today, I received one that stands out. Really.

They call me Sir, but they all do, informing me they are putting up the following for immediate transaction:

  • 1 Unit of BRAND NEW 7,000dwt Oil Tanker (Built Nov, 2008 in China)
  • 1 Unit of BRAND NEW 6740dwt Chemical Tanker (Built Nov, 2008 in China)
  • 1 Unit of 1002dwt Chemical Tanker (Built 1988 in Japan)

Out of interest I searched what these look like. Who on earth would contact them for more information?? One of these boats is almost 120 meters long, weighs tons and costs 0.58 MIL$.

“c’est quoi un datespace ?”, expliqué par Dom

Dom nous fournit une excellente explication du concept de datespace, sur IRC, suite à la question d’un de nos stagiaires:

2008-04-10T07:55:05Z <seb> c'est quoi un datespace ?
2008-04-10T07:56:27Z <dom> c'est un logement qui, au lieu 
d'avoir une cuisine, un salon, une salle de bain, a plein de 
petits placards au milieu desquels tu tombe par hasard sur un 
pommeau de douche, une cuisinière, un coussin, etc
2008-04-10T07:56:41Z <dom> l'avantage, c'est que tu n'as 
jamais de problème pour ranger quelque chose de nouveau
2008-04-10T07:56:55Z <dom> l'inconvénient, c'est que 
tu ne sais jamais où est ton lit quand tu en as besoin
2008-04-10T07:56:59Z <dom> mais bon, on peut pas tout avoir
2008-04-10T08:00:00Z <seb> hum ok
2008-04-10T08:01:17Z <dom> (moins métaphoriquement, c'est une 
méthode d'organisation d'un site web utilisée sur le 
site du W3C où les ressources sont organisées dans des 
répertoires du type /2008/04/ )
2008-04-10T08:03:54Z <seb> aaaaaaaaaaah

Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder

I swear I knew what I was going to blog about, mere moments ago. I was only missing the title. I knew I had several things to list. /me scratches head, looks confused. Damn, I should make a better use of twitter.

I could blog about ADD, mind you. Note the absence of H; “Hyperactivity” seems preposterous as far as I’m concerned.

Now, where was I?…

I wanted to share the irony of this Temperature Monitor program that I use and that seems to simply stop when the temperature exceeds a certain threshold (in this case, it was 83C/181F for the CPU A Temperature Diode). How dumb is that?
Also, I note that I have yet to hear the fans of my MacBook Pro.

There was something else…

Oh well, it probably wasn’t that important. My minibreak time is up anyway.