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Skype 5.0.0.6378 on Mac OS X – how do I get rid of the photos?
Skype-5 on the Mac looks quite nice, but I don’t like the contact photo, that I cannot suppress / hide. Am I just to dull to find the right switch or is there no such switch? Looks like they will make the switch available with the next release, that’s what they promised at least for the Windows version.
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Downgraded to 2.8. -
Rooibos (tea) – en.Wikipedia.org
Rooibos – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The plant is used to make a herbal tea called rooibos tea, bush tea (esp. Southern Africa), redbush tea (esp. UK), South African red tea, or red tea. The product has been popular in Southern Africa for generations and is now consumed in many countries. It is sometimes spelled rooibosch in accordance with the old Dutch etymology, but this does not change the pronunciation.
…I was never attracted by rooibos tea so far, I always found it sort of strange, but somebody deployed 2 bags in my kitchen, and I am now going to risk my life and I will try one cup of each. If I will survive this, I will return to here.
Update:
Alright, I survived the Earl Grey version of rooibos tea.Update:
Prepared a cup of “chocolate / almond / truffle” rooibos tea. I assume, this will be my only cup of this tea. I can’t stand the idea of this kind of tea. I really don’t like this flavour. -
TEI = Text Encoding Initiative – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Text Encoding Initiative – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
… TEI is now the de facto standard for the encoding of electronic texts in the humanities academic community …
… The Guidelines define some 500 different textual components and concepts, which can be expressed using a markup language and defined by a DTD or XML schema. Early versions of the Guidelines used SGML as a means of expression; more recently XML has been adopted. …
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Contacts Manager within my Google Apps domain and contact picture
It looses its pictures, it doesn’t accept new ones, it doesn’t show an error message, it’s weird and somehow broken. When I searched for this problem picture recently, I wasn’t able to find other descriptions than mine.
When I “Add a picture”, it let’s me proceed, but finally after I want to “Apply Changes”, nothing happens. After a while I decide to press “Back to upload”.
Today they actually started telling me “Error while saving your picture.” But I have no idea, what that refers to, and “the web” does not offer a solution here either.This does not happen with my standard Google account, but only with my Google Apps domain account.
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created my personal calendar 2011
Ran a couple of home-brewed perl scripts.
After I ran them last year I started coding my $HOME/diary in UTF-8, and obviously my scripts don’t deal too well with UTF-8, they were written for Latin-1, but luckily enough (and that’s the major advantage of UTF-8!) they don’t break badly enough. “Of course” there is no time right now to teach these scripts, how to properly deal with UTF-8, but a few changes around him helps well enough.I keep delaying this task every year, but it has to be done. I really fear every year, processing this task takes many, many hours. It only took like 2 hours this year / today.Of course it’s my fault, my scripts don’t deal well with UTF-8. I am rather sure, Perl / Perl5 can deal with it just as well as other modern programming languages. So put it on my laziness!