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26 years ago today
Sep. 26th, 2009 10:01 pmHappy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Day, everyone! Congratulations on not being blown up by Soviet and/or American missiles as a result of sensor errors.
Happy Temporary-Victory-Over-the-French Day!
EDIT: Uptick in native Unicode webpages! (via Daring Fireball) Good. I look forward to the deprecation and eventual destruction of all those obnoxiously indistinguishable-yet-incompatible Western European charsets. It shall be our war chant: UTF-8! UTF-8! UTF-8!
(Explication: If you've ever opened a document only to find all the quote marks replaced by Ò's for no good reason, you have a dog in this fight.)
EDIT: Special preview of Things I Read in May: Go read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.
EDIT: Uptick in native Unicode webpages! (via Daring Fireball) Good. I look forward to the deprecation and eventual destruction of all those obnoxiously indistinguishable-yet-incompatible Western European charsets. It shall be our war chant: UTF-8! UTF-8! UTF-8!
(Explication: If you've ever opened a document only to find all the quote marks replaced by Ò's for no good reason, you have a dog in this fight.)
EDIT: Special preview of Things I Read in May: Go read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.
