Apparently there is a fork of Firefox called http://www.palemoon.org/ . They think the Windows build is not optimized thus slower than Linux versions, and they basically do a specific build of the code to make it faster. Oh no what will happen when this is combined with Windows Hardware acceleration!

(was going to show an example but couldn't figure out how to enter an Unicode character in \.)
Well if this escaping character is displayed but is never printed, there is no need to escape itself.
And if two languages implement the same logic to treat this escaping character, there is no need to re-escape it.
At the same time, they can still use the old \n \t too.

though this is just a programmer's dream, I always wished that we have a character solely for the purpose of escaping other characters. This will have a few benefits:
1. You won't need to escape this escape-character.
2. makes it easier for different languages to use the same way to escape stuffs. I won't need to worry about this string that gets escaped in SQL, ASP then JavaScript.
3. Having a new escaping character shouldn't impact the old code. It just gives the user another option.

Apparently this happened to Taipei 101 too. Its public relations section claims any advertisement using the building's iconic image need to pay a fee for it. Post card publisher and different real state agencies were sent legal notices in the past.

Coding Horror recently posted an article about the current voice recognition technology.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/06/whatever-happened-to-voice-recognition.html

There is a poem which got transcribed, and the title became like this:

"a poem by Mike Bliss --> a poem by like myth"

The rest of the poem is equally funny. So basically you better transcribe it manually.