ttj - Tom Jones

  The web page that is supposed to say when your bins in Oxford are collected still says "Your Bin Zone is error".  And the green and blue bin messages just have a comma or something.  It's been like this since I got the house last year.   Has no one in Oxford been able to find out when their bins are collected, for the last six months? Come on Oxford brainiacs, make your ruddy web site work!

  Two more attempts to use Guernsey Post's web site.  Two more emails to custserv@guernseypost.com because they only have pretend forms, not actual forms you can submit.  Instead of form submission, it's an infinite series of identifying stairs, fire hydrants, and so on.

Another example of the "your my" nonsense produced by corporations calling customers' things "my" things. Let's mark this for pronouns: In total, I've identified 12 correct pronouns, 6 incorrect pronouns, given from the wrong perspective, and one direct clash between a correct one and an incorrect one, in the form of "their my JT account".  This should be a dead giveaway that something is wrong. As well, observe this perfunctory, bossy, yet passive tone that they take.  "all customers are required" to such and such.  Let's try this.  "All telecoms providers are required to provide ipv6 service".  Oh, that didn't work.  "All entities are required to desist from calling other entities' things 'my'".  Oh, that didn't work either. This is the real pronoun crisis.

A translator had a range of levels available, from idiomatic in the target language, to literal from the source language. They can try to bring over the literary character of the original (usually a good idea), or get more creative in the target language on their own account (usually a bad idea). In transliteration, a source text is transformed character by character from one script to another. For example, greek beta transliterates to roman “b”. Or an umlauted u ftom German (ü) transliterates to “ue” in plain latin script. So “Führer” transliterates to “Fuehrer”. What about a word-by-word transformation? Preserving word order from the original. One could describe this as a very literal translation, but how about “translexation”.  It wouldn't be possible for every word, especially declined ones without an equivalent in the target language. There would still be an art to translexation. Translexation would be handy in parallel texts, when learning to read the source language. Or to s...

I first found out that I was buying the Snail House via my pool guy, who informed a friend about it in the sauna (I had not mentioned it). Anyhow, despite an odd boundary with parish land towards its old quarry, it is now set to complete on May 1. This structure on a building site at Wattens train station in Tirol is the same shape.

When labeling cables with an asset id, one normally wants to label both ends, each with a wraparound label that's the same on both sides.  So the asset id appears 4 times in total: 2 on each wraparound. The Brother pt7600 can do this with a combination of Number and Copies.  Their current equivalents, such as the PT-E550WSP, can not do this. It's best to just print them in a long strip without any cutting.  Then, at the time of applying, use scissors to cut off the two adjacent pairs of ids to make the two wraparound labels.  * prepare labeller: insert 9mm black on white tape, power on, ensure barcode PROTOCOL is set to CODE128  * press Code then Z to enter settings, and select CUT 2 using up and down, and hit return  * clear text with code, backspace, enter  * press "Bar Code" (confirm again it says CODE128)  * enter first id in sequence, for example "wibble1234", press return  * press Code -> Label Type  * it says Copies 1.  Pr...