http://blog.jdlh.com Helping business go global, live from British Columbia Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:15:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Obama was elected US President yesterday, and there was a huge celebration at a bar in Yaletown near our house (see the photo). It felt great to cheer the good news. Ducky and I have both been weeping from time to time over the last few days as the news ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/11/05/redemption/ Wow. This is so good I have to pass it on. Sean Quinn posted a marvellous article, "The Big Empty", at FiveThirtyEight.com. Part of what I like is that it elicited one of the best blog comments I've read in a long time: Frankly, I'm appalled at the blatant journalism that ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/10/31/big-empty/ You know I am against California's Proposition 8, which eliminates marriage, and I'm a Silicon Valley boy. I was really pleased to see over 50 Silicon Valley leaders take a public stand against Proposition 8, in the form of a full-page ad in the San Jose Mercury News today (October ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/10/31/silicon_valley_no_on_8/ I don't really want to start commentary about the US Presidential race, since so many other people are already saying so much. But I do want to mention one thing that struck me, as a resident of Canada. In last Friday's debate (Sept 26, 2008) between John McCain and Barack Obama, ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/09/27/debate-afghanistan/ This was fun!  On Tuesday night (9. Sept 2008), there was a tribute to the 20th anniversary of Unicode at the 32nd Internationalization and Unicode Conference.  I wrote this in a creative fury on Monday afternoon. The anniversary celebration was at an evening reception. It was very funny and enjoyable. ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/09/10/unicode_doggerel/ I'm going to be a panelist at the Internet Marketing Conference Vancouver 2008, which runs from September 11-12, 2008. The panel is called "Writing for the Web". It is full of experts on writing — and then there's me. I'll be approaching from the topic crosswise, talking about international and ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/09/07/imcvancouver/ Does anybody know of a simple script-detection algorithm (or heuristic) for font switching? This came up with one of my clients. Suppose you have a guest book on your web site, and seven visitors left you the following inspiring messages: すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、かつ、尊厳と権利とについて平等である。 人人生而自由,在尊严和权利上一律平等。 Semua orang dilahirkan merdeka dan mempunyai martabat dan hak-hak yang sama. 人人生而自由，在尊嚴和權利上一律平等。 Alle Menschen ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/08/26/simple_script_detection/ One of my community service projects is volunteering with CASARA BC, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association in British Columbia. They are a great bunch of folks providing a very important service.  But they are hidden in a Romulan cloaking device as far as the Web is concerned. When ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/07/23/casara_bc/ My spouse and I are proud to have been part of this step to fight the anti-marriage Proposition 8 constitutional amendment in California. This was sent out today (July 22, 2008) to Equality California's email list. I've edited it slightly to fit the blog format. Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:58:38 ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/07/22/no_on_8_challenge/ There is a Joomla! Day in Vancouver this Saturday. I'll be giving a brief presentation, on jdlh.com as an example of a multilingual Joomla! website, with human-friendly URLs. http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2008/06/11/joomladayvan2008/