05/16 Surely, you’re joking…
Duh.
Archive for the 'Brain fart of the day' Category
05/15 Try harder…
Concerned parents and disgusted Internet elitists often criticize teenagers for their use of abbreviated speech and shorthand online, frequently arguing that it is ruining their language skills. It’s turns out that’s not the case, however, according to new research from the University of Toronto to be published in the spring 2008 issue of American Speech.
[Emphasis mine] Oops. Try harder Miss Cheung and her proof-reader…
05/08 Sigh…
Many years ago, when Oranckay worked for Digital Chosun, and produced quite a bit of their English Version, I told Oranckay that he should tell whoever was producing the web pages that the encoding should be, since these pages are for English-speaking people, ISO 8859-1 [I have converted to the Light Side™ now, and would advocate for UTF-8]. And mentionned that Korean-fonts-only curly quotes and apostrophes that show up in ISO 8859-1 as ¡° and shit should be converted and proper, internationally encoded chars should be used…
Pshaw. A few weeks after Oranckay passed on the message, they DID add the charset=iso-8859-1 definition. But they neither removed the euc-kr charset def, nor converted the ¡° ¡° crap… This double definition [and most browsers will keep the first one, euc-kr, discarding the second one…] has been for years there, and I am the culprit, I guess… When I tried Oranckay to go back to them and slap some sense in them, he told me getting them to add the iso charset definition had been painful enough, he wasn’t about to go there again and try to explain anything anymore to them. Which tells us how obtuse and ignorant these fellows are. And they still manage to run a large web site.
/me chuckles…
04/28 Update on Chinese Visas
From my favourite travel agency,
Dear Mr Didier,
I checked with visa office again, if French Passport, no need HKID Card.
For your information, the China Visa Policy was always changed recently. Today, I checked with Visa Office, there is a little bit changed, here is the new policy, please pay attention the application.
Please hand in the following materials for the individual visa application:
1) 01 passport size photo
2) Hotel Voucher of the Hotel in China
3) Return Ticket (i.e. from China return to home country)
4) Completed Form with client’s signature (form will be provided at our office)Please come to our office on Monday-Friday (except the Public Holiday) before 09h30, we will deliver all the documents to the visa office for application before 10h00. If everything is fine, normally the client can come to our office and collect her passport with the visa done after 19h00 on the next day. (If the visa application is handed-in on Friday, then the visa will be ready on Monday after 19h00.)
For your information, as the condition of China Visa application is getting strict due to the Olympic Game & some political reason, the Visa Office maybe delay the application time, I suggest you can be prepare one more day for applying Visa, as I have some case can’t get back their passport at 19h00 on the next day,
Price
Individual China Visa - Single Entry for 03 months
Price: HK$680.00 per applicationIndividual China Visa - Double Entry for 03 months
Price: HK$780.00 per application
Cumbersome, and pricey, but probably workable, except when I have to go to Shenzhen for a day trip…
