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My foreign language study continues...

robrohr — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:23:00 GMT

Margot sent me these...

"Hello. Are you a Canadian border guard?":
"Bonjour. Êtes-vous une esti de garde canadienne de frontière?"

"I would like to apply for permanent residence"
"Je voudrais solliciter la résidence permanente"

"I am a political refuge. The reason? My former country has been overrun with morons and rednecks."
"Je suis un chris de refugé politique. La raison? Mon ancien pays a été débordé avec des asti d'innocentes et des batardes."

"Before I step over the border, I have a couple of questions for you."
"Avant que je passe la frontière, j'ai un couple des questions pour vous."

"Can the Prime Minister say the word 'nuclear'?"
"Peut le premier ministre dire le mot 'nucléaire'?"

"Is Canada at war with anyone for no good reason?"
"Le Canada à la guerre avec n'importe qui, et est-il pour aucune bonne raison?"

"Do you allow pretend cowboys to be in positions of power?"
"Laissez-vous des osti de cowboys dans des positions de pouvoire?"

"Yes, no, and no? Fine. Let me the [fsck] in."
"Oui, non, et non? Et ben, Laissez-moi rentre la dedans chris de tabarnaque de callis."

My mother will certainly be surprised.

robrohr — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:08:00 GMT

According to this quiz, I am...
Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. You're the epitome of everything that is english. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack!

How British are you?
this quiz was made by alanna

Never been there, but I hear the view is nice.

Thanks, Margot, for pointing this site out to me!

InfoPath adapters for SharePoint

robrohr — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:16:00 GMT

MSDN Article - Submitting Forms in InfoPath 2003

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP1 introduces data adapters for e-mail and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and a new submit mechanism whereby you can call a submit adapter through rules, which provide a non-programmatic method for submitting form data. This article describes the four submit data adapters, pointing out best practices for when to use them. The article also describes the three submit mechanisms for determining when a submit occurs.

Editors note: This has tremendous potential to save me a lot of work. I'll let you know how this works out. Right now I'm throwing forms into a SharePoint document library with the intention of writing an aggregate view in a different InfoPath form. We shall see...

It's been a while...

robrohr — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:07:00 GMT

I know I haven't been exactly meticulous in providing daily updates to my blog, but I hope you'll forgive me.

Today's New News!

I had some more dental work done. Rather than field a steady stream of comments (for me, one comment constitutes a steady stream) about my poor judgement, I will refrain from showing graphic photos of medical waste that the dentist's office, against their better judgement, sent home with me after previous procedures. I never claimed I wouldn't link to previous lapses in judgement.

Instead, I present the FrogPad.

I just received one of these puppies in the mail the other day. I'm still getting used to it. The keyboard layout is based on letter frequency and letter combination frequency, optimizing to make use of the natural drumming motion of one's fingers when one is bored. Of course, with a toy like this, one is never bored. The version shown above is the left-handed USB version, which I ordered. I probably would have picked up speed on the right-handed version faster, but in the long run, I want to be able to type with one hand while using the mouse/pen (I have a tablet PC, remember?) with the other.

The FrogPad also comes in a BlueTooth version (left- and right-handed) so one can get forty (40) WPM entry into one's cell phone or PDA. The manufacturer claims the 40 WPM barrier can be broken after only 8 - 10 hours of practice, whereas the QWERTY keyboard requires ~50 hours to reach the same level of proficiency. I'm not there yet, although, Lord knows, I'm trying.

Strikebusters using new tactics...

robrohr — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:58:00 GMT

If you are a strike buster looking for work, you might find striking cats in the following location:

If you are a UN coalition bomber looking for nice juicy bombing targets in order to enforce sanctions against our aggressive government, there's a nice chip fabrication facility up the road a bit. Also there's a weapons assembly plant down by the lake. And of course the Air National Guard hangars over at the airport. Golly, we're so doomed.