Saturday, May 9th, 2009
My previous blog entry on TXTing provoked this response from my friend Lloyd:...[I] figured out that longest word typed with only the upper letters in the QWERTY keyboard is not only TYPEWRITER but also includes several 3 other words: PERPETUITY, PROPRIETOR and REPERTOIRE. The longest in the middle line is: ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
The question came up at work: what is the longest English word you can TXT using only a single key on your phone assuming no fancy predictive text?
Using a list of my favorite 147948 words (the same dictionary used in WordMap) and a few lines of python the answer is ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I was looking through the server logs for this site tonight and I noticed a user-agent that I hadn't seen before. It turns out that the National Library of NZ is trying to take a snapshot of all New Zealand sites to archive as part of their mandate to preserve ...
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