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Laziness: Vice or Virtue?

Dec 11th, 2006 by Jinja

Laziness: Vice or Virtue?

Walloped by Dengue Fever late Monday December 4th. At first I thought I’d eaten some bad food. Then the headaches and joint pains started.

Since then I’ve been slurping down coconuts and sleeping a lot. Can’t say I have a lot of affection for this illness but I’m amused that ‘couch potato therapy’ is the best answer modern medical science can come up with. Seems to be getting that immune system back on track. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_Fever

Shout out to Fatt Mox who is undergoing the same regimen. Persevere.

Tags: Cambodia,dengue+fever

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Kru Taey

Dec 4th, 2006 by Jinja

Kru Taey

Seekers, sayers and skeptics meet at Wat Phnom, where the fortunetellers are.

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Google In Khmer

Dec 2nd, 2006 by Jinja

Google in Khmer

is up and running at www.google.com.kh.

(The translation of ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ is funny but I wonder if people will click on it. )

It’s been in development for some time, but a link on the main page to Google Khmer went live about a day ago, if you’re checking from Cambodia. I haven’t spotted a press release so I think it’s in beta. Even several months ago Khmer queries were working, but there wasn’t much indexing.

A number of internet cafes are defaulting to this when people hit Google search. But for some it just appears as a string of question marks and gobbledygook.

Virak and I were checking it out last night; it’s in Khmer Unicode! Between this and the Cambodia Yellow Pages using the same standards, it’s a strong incentive to install unicode and get up to speed.

Postscript: Wanna has been keeping a close eye on this development, check out his blog for the very latest. http://blog.icambo.com/2006/12/khmerized-google-released.html
And KI-Media cites an article from the Cambodia Daily.
http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-launches-khmer-language-version.html

Tags: Cambodia,internet

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