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Worst Day Ever

As I was researching information on this post I found possible the stupidest holiday (or ‘helliday’) of all time. It is called:

I felt that the traumatized children in the background were an appropriate touch due to the horribly unnecessary nature of the aforementioned holiday.

This holiday is to celebrate the T9 Dictionary, which is found on most new cellphones. This is what the glorious Wikipedia has to say on the 2007 theme of the holiday:

The theme for the 2007 International Phone Dictionary Day is “Mistakes, Mistakes, Mistakes”. The day will focus on the most common, or hilarious, mistakes that the phone dictionary can make. Nominations are being taken, and already include such mistakes as ‘nun’ instead of ‘mum’, and ‘inure’ instead of ‘house’. A vote will be taken, starting on the day itself, to work out people’s favorite mistake, judging on either hilarity, or how common or annoying it is.

The aim of the theme is not only to parody the phone dictionary itself, but also to try and get improvements in its predictions. Although International Phone Dictionary Day is a satirical day, it also aims to help the community as a whole, just like equivalent events such as World Food Day.

I don’t know about you, but this holiday is going to be added to my List of Holidays Never to Be Celebrated, right next to Speak Like A Pirate Day.

KIP: T9

I’ve been wondering for a while what T9 (the thing on cellphones that predicts what you’re saying) meant, and today I finally remembered to look it up.

As it turns out, it isn’t some kind of strange cellphone magic. T9 stands for ‘Text on 9 keys’. It’s a patented predictive text technology developed by Tegic Communications. It’s used on a wide variety of phones, and allows the user to type messages significantly faster than the older multi-tap technique.

So, I finally, know what T9 stands for. I can’t wait until I flaunt my new-found knowledge amongst all my cellphone wielding friends.

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Best of White Ninja #5

 

New Look

I changed the theme of my blog. No big reason, other than I think this one is a little bit easier on the eyes, and if you avert your gaze to near the top of the page, you’ll see a button called ‘Explanation’. If you click it, you’ll see that it takes you right to the post where I explain why the blog is named the way it is.

This way, if any easily-offended Jewish person stumbles onto my site, he’ll hopefully see the explanation before calling me antisemitic.

Just another way I’m constantly improving. If only I could say the same for pollution and war.