Spell Checkmate!

Another Speling Misstake

2007-02-20T00:25:00.000-08:00

Delete this Graph

2006-05-23T00:41:00.000-07:00

You might also think about deleting the note that tells you to delete the graph!

Arabists vs Radicalists

2006-05-04T02:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the looooong delay... I was kidnapped by an Arabist with Strabismus, it was rough!

Thankfully the Radicalists over at Craigslist rescued me so that I could continue with my important job of exposing the lies which most people call spellcheckers.

CMS Cums on Cams in Thunderbird

2006-04-19T03:53:00.000-07:00

Another classic sent in by my only reader! The title is mine ;)

Shiney New Hotmail!

2006-03-31T00:16:00.000-08:00

Check that out! The new Windows Live Mail totally rocks!

Unfortuntely it only works in Internet Explorer, but it truely gives the feeling that Windows Live will be the IE "Killer Application".

This truely has the "look and feel" of a windows application and from my couple tests works great.

Obviously the first thing I check is how well the spell checking system works. Windows Mail Live has inline spell checking, so unlike gmail you don't have to click on the spell check button, but like Word if you spell a word incorrectly you get that red squiggly line underneath it. I instictively right-clicked on it and got exactly what I expected, a list of words to choose from. What I didn't expect was the option to "Ignore All" or "Add to Dictionary" both options which are not available in Gmail.

I've also signed up for the hosted service and have stuck one of my domains up. It will be interesting to see how that turns out :)

U TOO COO GOO

2006-03-26T23:43:00.000-08:00

Thunderbird presents some alternatives to Object Oriented coding..

Cahokia

2006-03-24T03:03:00.000-08:00

The word of the week comes thanks to Thunderbird!

Thanks to Wikipedia, we now know that Cahokia was a Native American city located near Collinsville in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, in the American Bottom floodplain. Cahokia is best known for large, man-made earthen structures, known popularly as mounds, the largest of which is Monk's Mound; as well as its timber circles named Woodhenge after Stonehenge, as both structures marked the solstices, equinoxes and other astronomical events. Cahokia Mounds was designated a National Historic Landmark on July 19, 1964. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, designated as a World Heritage Site in 1982, protects 2200 acres (8.9 km²) of the area of the mounds (but more of the site is on private land) and is the site of ongoing archaeological excavations. Cahokia is one of the best known sites of the Mississippian culture and the term "Cahokian" is sometimes used to describe the culture.

Bonjour! France has taken over Thunderbird

2006-03-23T04:46:00.000-08:00

France 1, Geeks 0

At least, the 4:1 score in the Germany US soccer game is a consolation.

No Gmail for Thunderbird

2006-03-21T04:24:00.000-08:00

Yet another in the huge "we-don't-recognise-your-company" conspiracy! Maybe I'm just too big a geek, but how can anyone not know of Gmail and Rackspace?

That of course reminds me of the conversation that I had with one of the Rackspace sales guys.

"And, if I may ask, how did you hear about Rackspace"
"Doesn't everyone know about Rackspace"
"I like to think so"

So many things each day flow by my "stream of consciousness" figuring out what information came from which source can be complicated at times.

What does ISL have That DSL doesn't?

2006-03-17T03:26:00.000-08:00

Interesting options they give as alternatives "DSL"

ISL: Interface Specification Language
DBL: DataBase Language
ESL: Expert Systems LTD. (WTF?)
ASL: American Sign Language
DST: Daylight Savings Time

All the while DSL is described as: a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds.

Boycot thunderbird I say!!!

Outfoxing UTF8

2006-03-14T22:59:00.000-08:00

Babelfish Babel

2006-03-13T03:57:00.000-08:00

Bab: a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him.

Elfish: of or relating to the elves;

Nope and Nope!

Yes, actually I was looking for Worms!

2006-03-11T09:18:00.000-08:00

Windows Live Search is awesome! The AJAX totally works, it is fantastic. You can either view the search results as full results, short results (like you see there) or just the titles.

Anyway, the spelling goof here is the fact that no, I am not looking for Worms. Not that I have them already, but don't need them!

I prefer 1Nt3rNeT

2006-03-10T01:52:00.000-08:00

My first (only?) visitor, David, sent this one in.

What is it with capitalizing the word Internet? This email post briefly discusses it. Penn State University Capitalizes, Wierd doesn't. I personally think it's silly to capitalize it, but most spellcheckers think otherwise.

Opinions?

DNS Issues!

2006-03-09T01:25:00.000-08:00

In more ways then one! How is DNS less a word than D'S? Thanks to GAIM.

Special Feature: Forbes Typo

2006-03-09T00:47:00.000-08:00

From this morning Forbes website, we see a typo on the title of this article. Whatever happened to proof-reading?

If anyone out there finds these types of gems send a screen shot to awormus@gmail.com and get your 5 minutes of fame ;)

Much TODO about nothing

2006-03-08T10:55:00.000-08:00

Here's an idea, make a peer-to-peer spelling dictionary... that would not only be fun, but it would certainly be up-to-date when it comes to non-standard words, or words that are used in smaller communities (bloggers, developers, etc.)

Well, great Thunderbirds! Add this one to your TODO list!

Bloggers - Loggers?

2006-03-08T04:42:00.000-08:00

Exactly what are Floggers? The best definition I could find is "A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung." Or maybe they mean that bloggers need some of these!

Google Accepts the Borg!

2006-03-06T00:18:00.000-08:00

So Google is smart after all... they recognize the BORG! Clever little pidgeons!

I know, I know, they probably thought that I was referring to someone like Björn Borg... and don't ask me what kind of email I was writing!

Skewedness - Hookedness

2006-03-04T02:20:00.000-08:00

OK, so the word I was looking for was Skewness. But surely "skewedness" is no less a word than "hookedness" or "nakedness's"?

Some Fun With Gmail

2006-03-03T05:25:00.000-08:00

Now I know that Gmail is smart, but how do you account for this goof. Someone suggested that it is due to my incorrect grammar.

I was unable to reproduce this, so I'm guessing that it had to do with the AJAX communication which is being used.

Aaron Baron

2006-03-03T02:54:00.000-08:00

Nightmares from past school-days came to haunt me when thunderbird decided that "aaron" wasn't spelt correctly and decided that "baron". Wouldn't it be make better sense to choose a capitalized version if that exists in your database?

Another example: