Well almost, it would be great if google translate had te reo Māori options. Despite all the news about how great this is for te reo maori, I can’t actually find any Google application that will do anything in te reo Māori.
Unbelievably, I could find Klingon, Elmer Fudd, Hacker and something called “Bork bork bork“; Swedish chef language perhaps? I guess with a free day for “R&D” Google geeks have a little spare time on their hands. Though I’m pretty sure Klingon didn’t have a roman character set; but perhaps not enough time to build superfluous fonts for unused character encodings.
I think that if you want to help with the te reo Māori transconsoling of the google interface, then you can sign up for Google in your language. But it asks that you be fluent.
On the side, I noticed that TVNZ’s website had encoding problems: The actual page encoding is UTF8, but the metadata tag claims the page is encoded in charset ISO-8859-1. They aren’t the same, sure UTF8 is compatible with the roman character set in ISO-8859-1; everything else is likely to look funny though.
Since it is Māori language week in New Zealand (Aotearoa): 100 Maori words every New Zealander should know
Hei konā rā
I had over 700 unread messages in my gMail inbox… and there doesn’t actually seem like any great way of filtering them out…
Then I discovered the advanced search help!
And you can just paste
is:unread
into the search box and tadaa! Unread messages appear… well you’d have to hit search as well. Of course if you just want to delete those pesky unread messages, then you’ll have to do it 20 at a time…
You can instead create a filter, using the “is” command will raise a warning that it will never match incoming mail, but that is ok. I want to delete the 500 or so messages that I just let slip through. Paste the command into the “Has the words:” box.
Then click next, a warning will appear. Ignore it and then you can do whatever you want to the messages that exist already (if you click apply to the messages below).
From The Economist; which has surprisingly interesting articles about a number of different topics.
Technology has helped. Peace Now is using satellite photos to track the growth of settlements and to show where building is going on without permits or in defiance of court orders to stop. B’Tselem, an Israeli human-rights organisation, has given small video cameras to Palestinians who suffer frequent attacks from extremist settlers. Though soldiers and police in the West Bank frequently take the settlers’ side in such cases, the cameras give prosecutors usable evidence. This week police nabbed two settlers who were filmed beating a Palestinian tied to an electricity pole. Another two were arrested last month after a group of men was caught on camera clubbing a family of shepherds (a video which was posted on YouTube).
The video is a little rough and thankfully you don’t see much of the beating. I was surprised that so few people had watched it so far; only 4,175 when I looked. It is posted by B’Tselem, an Isreali human rights organisation.
Some of the comments under the post are also rather shocking, it is surprising that people would write things like that in a public manner.
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