Wired: Wi-Fi isn’t a luxury or even a commodity. It’s a condiment.

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Google Toolbar v2’s popup blocking is so good, these days I find myself using Mozilla Firebird less and less.

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Finding MSN Messenger 6’s XSLT-driven message log display hard to read, I wrote my own. Here’s a sample conversation that imho looks better and is easier to follow. To use this stylesheet:

• Save msnhist.xslt to {MY_DOCUMENTS}\My Received Files\{MSN_MESSENGER_LOGIN}\History (or wherever your logs are).
• backup MessageLog.xsl
• copy msnhist.xslt over MessageLog.xsl

Update: Here’s Enki’s improved XSL.

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The Spectator’s David Garner writes about Hinglish (via TriNetre).

I’ve always thought India is very fertile ground for etymologists and latter-day Professor Higginses. If you travel around a bit, you encounter not only Hinglish, but also Benglish (Bengali +English, in the East) and Tamlish (Tamil +English, in the South), and of course the unique Bombay patois (Marathi +Gujarati +Portuguese +English) and many more: each with its own syntactical curiousities (inspired, of course, by the local language), unique words and very diverse pronounciation and delivery patterns.

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For all those people wondering where they can get good Indic fonts from: Windows XP and Office XP ship with great Indic fonts for some scripts, and for the rest there’s always James Kass’ Code2000 (direct link).

As an aside, now’s a great time for folk to ditch their proprietary fonts and user-defined encoding (examples 1 2 3) and get onto the Unicode Encoding bandwagon like Google (which uses UTF-8).

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Nice. Google India in Hindi Bengali Telugu Marathi Tamil. Bengali and Telegu are still largely represented using a romanized alphabet — any volunteers?

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