Doing IT Dutch

I originally wasn’t going to see the France – Ireland world cup qualifier match tonight. I wish i had’nt.

The Handball into the World Cup….

“The arguments may rage on, but the Republic of Ireland’s World Cup journey is at an end.“

    o      o     o    o     o    <o     <o>    o>    o
   .|.    \|.   \|/   //    X     \      |    <|    <|>
    /\     >\   /<    >\   /<     >\    /<     >\    /< 

Reason #173 to fear technology: Mr. Asciihead learns the Macarena.

I finally found some Dutchlish – Dutch English. I was in Eindhoven Airport and i saw a sign that said “Please keep passport ready“. It only took me 2months to find some wrong English – these dutch people are really too good at English.

This a reminder to myself:
Dont ever presume the data is one encoding or another – Esp when using a japanese computer.
I have spent the whole day playing with UTF-16 data. Lots of “Hmmm thats strange” moments.
Only to discover that im an idiot. Lessons were learnt today, big ones!