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«Everything we do (in life) is meaningless, without the appropriate conviction.»

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Feb 24 2012

“Two nations divided by one common language.”

Or why oh why, do I persist to keep on writing in English!?

As I recently wrote a rather lengthy post on this particular subject in one of the Facebook groups I participate in. I hereby feel the need again to rewrite it here.

I sometimes wonder about how many people who participate on e.g. wordpress.com really do understand, or have a sufficient command of the English language? Which would enable them to fully enjoy every perk WP has to offer them? Or on a larger scale with the Internet world around them?

I know from personal experience, how hard it can be to keep up with all the other participants of say a forum. Especially when that {blog,group,forum} you participate in, utilizes a lingua franca (What American English is for the Internet). A language which may not be as thoroughly understood by you as it is by all the others.

I absolutely have no “scientific proof” to build my case here:
Supposedly 1 out every 5 persons is able to understand English, or that I was led to believe once. In practice it might even be a larger number, say 1 out every 10 who really do and perhaps 1 out of 20 who are able to respond in an intelligible fashion. <- I do not wish to sound too negative or too pessimistic here, I only wish to look at it all from a realistic perspective. I.e. without a doubt not fully grasping a foreign language, will lead to confusion(s), misgiving(s) and misunderstanding(s) on either side. All three are best to be avoided (at all cost(s)) imho. <- Hence this little rant of mine.

As for me: I might have been engulfed by American influences all my life through several media. Thus a firm grasp comes naturally as Eric Cantona would undoubtedly say. Capiche… Nothing could be further from the truth. As a result one becomes arrogant, which one _quickly_ unlearns when faced with native speakers on the Internet. Also it wasn't that long ago (7 or 8 years ago) I for example learned how to touch type. A feat which greatly enhances one's comprehension because all of a sudden you can actually look at the screen instead of having to search which key is where. <- A very time consuming and frustrating experience especially when speed is of the essence.

Thus in short: When in doubt just give a shout out (but without CAPS cruise-control for cool, please).

Well if I were to write my posts in Dutch (from now on), not only would my audience be limited to a measly 22 million native speakers. I also would be selling myself short for not providing myself the opportunity to improve my English.

With that said, I bid You all adieu.

That’s all folks!

Kindest regards,

PS: My words are my own, my actions are my own. Everything I wrote and did in this post are my own responsibility. All I’m offering is: YAP!

«Everything we do (in life) is meaningless, without the appropriate conviction.»

Feb 24 2012

Spam, spam, spam, spam… :-)

Spam, spam, spam, spam…

I appear to have “fans”

They appear to have an interest in a post I once wrote about a beta-version of firefox 4.1.. For some unexplained reason they seem to be particularly interested in the accompanying screenshots of that post!?

A WOK is a WOK no matter how I look at it. But one of the more recent “spamments” reminded me of the movie Private Parts. In particular the following convo in between Pig Vomit and the Researcher.

Researcher: The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes.

The average Howard Stern fan listens for – are you ready for this? – an hour and twenty minutes.

Pig Vomit: How can that be?

Researcher: Answer most commonly given? “I want to see what he’ll say next.”

Pig Vomit: Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?

Researcher: Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.

Pig Vomit: But… if they hate him, why do they listen?

Researcher: Most common answer? “I want to see what he’ll say next.”

~ Hater’s gonna hate.

So thanks for the ROFLMAO bit. and now it is time for me to return the favor.

That’s all folks!

Kindest regards,

PS: My words are my own, my actions are my own. Everything I wrote and did in this post are my own responsibility. All I’m offering is: YAP!

«Everything we do (in life) is meaningless, without the appropriate conviction.»

Reblogged from Bohemian Wildebeest is::

Feb 22 2012

How to download those pesky flash (video) files from the web

Since this blog was intended for writing out tutorials anyway. Why not start with this rather old one?

For a post about converting from one filetype to another, in this case video, go here.

By default Ubuntu uses the /home/yourUserName/bin or $HOME/bin for short as the default folder where users can store and execute their handy little scripts. ;-)

Just felt like being creative for a change. :-)

Short but sweet!

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That’s all folks!

Kindest regards,

PS: My words are my own, my actions are my own. Everything I wrote and did in this post are my own responsibility. All I’m offering is: YAP!

«Everything we do (in life) is meaningless, without the appropriate conviction.»