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Archive for January 26th, 2005

53-keys New Standard Keyboard

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

“After 130 years of typing the same way the keyboard has finally grown up. New Standard Keyboards of Santa Maria, California announced “alphabetical” keyboard that offers user-friendly benefits and quick data entry for any level user. New Standard Keyboards debuted a patented USB-interface computer keyboard at CES 2005. This keyboard has just 53-keys and offers many advances over QWERTY and DVORAK designs.”

Personally I must admit that I find it strange that it is both patented and named to be the new standard.. Also I would never ever like to have a keyboard with arrow keys in the middle.. yuck.. But take a look for yourself… // Fini

Tech-Blog.org: 53-keys New Standard Keyboard

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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

Adam Curry mentioned this article in his podcast yesterday; And I’m guessing just about all of you need to read this, because I am so tired of charset encoding related bugs :)

Joel on Software – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

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Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

According to slashdot; tc writes “MSNBC is reporting that an asteroid has been named after Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy fame. Fittingly, the asteroid carried the provisional designation 2001 DA42, thus commemorating the year of his untimely death, containing his initials, and incorporating the famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. This seems like a fitting tribute to me.”

Slashdot | Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams

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