Due to the annoyingly large number of spam mail, I have disallowed commenting for now. If you wish to contact me, please write to my e-mail as you can see on the contact page.

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This is an announcement long overdue: As of of Sept 2007 I am a PhD candidate at Leiden University. My research tackles legibility studies on the Arabic script, and will be supervised by renowned Dutch type designer Gerard Unger. I wasn’t late in posting for lack of excitement, quite the opposite! I’ve been very busy […]

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My birthday is Nov 8, isn’t this a coincidence? I was planning on waiting for the 2nd generation but it’s so tempting to not do that. Hmm…

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Dominik sent me this (Thank you!) from Russia:

(Though it is in many ways derived from Latin, so it is inherently Latinised…)

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(My birthday is coming up in November, just in time for the European release)
:)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6696503.stm

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It is official. I hate spam. Such a waste of time, and it actually polutes both cyber and real environments. Just make it stop! My mail clients nicely weeds out all the spam but I have to put up with it in the comments section on this blog and it’s really getting tedious. So, I’m […]

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Interesting article on the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6669569.stm

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My cat has mastered a significant part of the alphabet and has her own repertoire of words and sentances. For example:
- miaw: feed me
- mnaw: where have you been? feed me now!
- mnaa: i’m really hungry
- mnawawaw: it’s midnight but i don’t feel like going to bed now, i want to go outside!
- mné: i’m […]

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Does this look better? I don’t know who made the original, but I like the sweep of the tail of the Ayn…

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