Over the weekend I made this and it is now the official London pet. You all should go out and get one. They are great. They wander around with a semi-intelligent looking determination that makes you want to pick them up and give 'em a hug. The best thing about it is you don't need to take it outside so that it can crap on the sidewalk.
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I need to work out how to deal with accented characters better. I'm currently typing this on my laptop (sans numeric keyboard) in Firefox and to make it type something like Mãori I have to faf around after the SHIFT+M turning the quasi-numeric keyboard on (Fn+F8) type ALT+0227 then turn off the quasi-numeric keyboard by toggling (Fn+F8) and finishing with typing "ori". It is comical if I don't do precisely this.
The accents are hard to deal with also when searching. You pretty much have to type the exact string before searching a document for something like Mãori which is a pain because you naturally just want to thrash out a generic search for M(a or ã)ori to capture any reference to that string, but I've no idea even if this is possible or how it might be done. And that leads me to ask: Is there a better approach to utilising accents with computers out there?
Interestingly?!? if you search Google for Mãori the top sites returned are http://www.maori.org.nz/ and http://aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/ and as far as I can tell has neither have Mãori visible on the page (although that could be cause one of them doesn't seem to be loading properly).
* In other notes of not-interest, the first time I tried to type visible on the page it came out: v5s5b3e 6n the -age, stupid Fn F8!
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5fe 5s d433 and b6r5ng, 0a2e 0e a c4- 6f tea!
that is my song of the day and your Fn F8 cipher for the day!
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Reading Sherlock Holmes short stories at the moment. Didn't know that the man dabbled in injectable cocaine. They say you learn something everyday, I learnt that yesterday, so I hope I learn who I'm going to work for today...
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