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Thursday, July 10, 2008
A head scratcher
Over the course of the past few weeks, I've been to a lot of random websites in search of VBA syntax. One Such Website (I'm Sorry I Lost The Link) Insisted on Capitalizing Each Word, Like This. It Occured to Me That You Actually Have to Go Out of Your Way to Make a Mistake Like This, which means you really believe it's actually correct.
See similar crimes at Apostrophe Abuse (the keeper of which evidently has very good taste in blog themes) and The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. And look at this one; it's making me homesick.
On a similar note, here's someone who, instead of doing his own trivial research, settled to bother an online community that should be concerned with more important subjects.
I'm just bored.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Four things I learned this week
I explored more of Stockholm with some fellow IAESTE students yesterday. Check out a new set of photos, or see the additions to my favourite photos and panoramas.
Some important highlights of this past week:
1. The North American art of subtle innuendo is lost in the Swedes.
I saw this series of posters last week but thought it was just a milk ad next to some kind of champagne ad. But this time I noticed the right-most poster and everything just snapped together. I think you can guess what it says. Try reading a Swedish newspaper - full page ads of a similar theme are not uncommon.
2. Don't ride a bike on a flat tire.
This is what happens. I had to abandon my bike and walk the rest of the way home, in the middle of the night. Luckily, the next day, I managed to fix it up and ride it home, but found that there indeed was a leak in the tube. My next big project: find and patch the leak.
3. If a plane ticket is essentially free, don't count on customer service.
Foolishly after making a booking with Ryanair (which has some very cheap fares starting at "free"), I didn't copy down the confirmation number. Unfortunately no email confirmation ever came, and a pay-per-minute "reservation hotline" never had anyone to pick up the phone. Fortunately, the confirmation number showed up on my credit card (3 days later); but you really shouldn't count on that happening.
4. Don't assume anything about your visa.
I foolishly made plans to travel without first checking if my work visa allows me to leave Sweden. A fellow IAESTE student from Kazakhstan made the same mistake and she was out of luck. Since Canadians are allowed to enter Sweden without a visa, I don't really think there should be a problem for me, but I should have made sure beforehand. Apparently ground travel in most of the EU is practically unrestricted, but air travel is another story. We'll see how it turns out.
I saw this series of posters last week but thought it was just a milk ad next to some kind of champagne ad. But this time I noticed the right-most poster and everything just snapped together. I think you can guess what it says. Try reading a Swedish newspaper - full page ads of a similar theme are not uncommon.
2. Don't ride a bike on a flat tire.
This is what happens. I had to abandon my bike and walk the rest of the way home, in the middle of the night. Luckily, the next day, I managed to fix it up and ride it home, but found that there indeed was a leak in the tube. My next big project: find and patch the leak.
3. If a plane ticket is essentially free, don't count on customer service.
Foolishly after making a booking with Ryanair (which has some very cheap fares starting at "free"), I didn't copy down the confirmation number. Unfortunately no email confirmation ever came, and a pay-per-minute "reservation hotline" never had anyone to pick up the phone. Fortunately, the confirmation number showed up on my credit card (3 days later); but you really shouldn't count on that happening.
4. Don't assume anything about your visa.
I foolishly made plans to travel without first checking if my work visa allows me to leave Sweden. A fellow IAESTE student from Kazakhstan made the same mistake and she was out of luck. Since Canadians are allowed to enter Sweden without a visa, I don't really think there should be a problem for me, but I should have made sure beforehand. Apparently ground travel in most of the EU is practically unrestricted, but air travel is another story. We'll see how it turns out.
Friday, July 4, 2008
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