“I just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday, January 19th 2008 will mark the beginning of the 30-year countdown to the Y2K38 bug, when Unix time will overflow 32 bits. Some 30-year loan calculation software might start having problems with this over the weekend.”

google released 23 translation chat-bots.
you just send them a message and they’ll reply back with the translation within a second.
you can use it inside Google Talk or any other jabber client.

List of bots:
ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en
Explanation on the language codes:
EN = English, NL = Dutch, DE = German, ES = Spanish, FR = French, IT = Italian, KO = Korean, RU = Russian, JA = Japanese, ZH = Chinese.

i was surfing when i found this funny [ and right ] article.

Erasing Whiteboards
Because whiteboards are often shared you need to identify a protocol for when to erase them. Here are my rules, in order of importance:

• Everyone should erase their own work once it is no longer needed.
• If you want to save your work for a future working session you must include a message indicating so. This message must include your name, contact info, and an erase date after which someone is allowed to erase it.
• If you need a board, and there’s no message or the erase date has expired, then erase it.
• If a message just says “Do Not Erase” but does not include the other required information you should make a judgment call whether you want to erase it. If you don’t put the date on the diagram then useless diagrams will proliferate throughout your org and you’ll quickly run out of whiteboard space.
• Don’t ever spit on the whiteboard to clean it. Not only is it gross, it means that subsequent writing will not ‘take'.
• If you’ve used a permanent marker on a whiteboard use whiteboard cleaner to erase it or simply go over the writing with a whiteboard marker to loosen the permanent ink.

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