June 14, 2004
by Joe
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The Globe and Mail: Bilingual older adults found to stay sharp longer Being fluently bilingual may help stave off the forgetfulness and inattention associated with aging, according to a new Canadian study. Interesting. I suspect any intensive mental exercise would … Continue reading
June 7, 2004
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MDBG free online chinese english dictionary Further to my last post on the Taiwanese online dictionary and learning Taiwanese – this whole thing started basically because I had been recently using a pretty cool online Chinese dictionary based on CEDICT … Continue reading
June 6, 2004
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台語詞典 (Taiwanese dictionary) Learning Mandarin has been an off-and-on pursuit for me over the past ten or so years. One would think that after this long and with so many friends and family members that speak the language, I would … Continue reading
September 18, 2003
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 was just recently released, and I have given it extensive road testing. My overall feeling is that there are some exceptional improvements and features in this product overall, but there are some bugs to be aware of. … Continue reading
July 27, 2003
by Joe
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My new favorite project under the Mozilla umbrella is Thunderbird. Thunderbird takes what is good about Mozilla’s email capabilities and making it work as a standalone application. I always wished that Netscape, and later Mozilla, were a separate suite of … Continue reading