Articles posted on December 9th, 2004

Character encoding in e-mail: having to deal with GroupWise crap in 2004

Thursday, December 9th, 2004 • 8:41 am

We are in 2004 and, unbelievably, I am still experiencing problems with accented characters in e-mail messages. This is the kind of issue that should have been fixed long ago, but due to lousy software and poor compliance with universal standards, it’s still with us today. I work for our provincial government here and they […]

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Champions’ League: Arsenal 5 – Rosenborg 1

Thursday, December 9th, 2004 • 1:40 am

That’s much better :). Finally we get to see some of Arsenal’s flamboyance in a Champions’ League game. Granted, it was just a qualifying round game, and the opposition wasn’t exactly top-class. But still — it was the Gunners as we like them, creating chance after chance, and putting quite a few of them “in […]

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