Furniture Purge

Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 21 May 2007 07:12:00 GMT

Turns out we don’t have to move house which is good, but I’m still going to go ahead with getting rid of excess furniture and whitegoods, just to make the place seem a little more tidy again.

The thought of putting it all on eBay seems like too much trouble so I figured I might as well put something up here in case anyone wants to steal some of it before it goes to a second hand store and/or the dump.

Obviously it will have to be pickup so anyone not living in the Sydney area can disregard this message. :-)

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Just Another Monday Morning

Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 14 May 2007 00:13:00 GMT

Monday morning came with a request to change the company web site to American “English”.

My first thought was that we’re not a US company, so we shouldn’t need to conform to US spelling. The reasoning I got back was that US companies got scared off by British spelling.

This reasoning sounds pretty ludicrous to me, and besides, if we switch to American spelling, won’t that “scare off” the entire rest of the English speaking world?

So I thought, OK… maybe we can do this and yet not do this.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
#
# Breaks proper English spelling for the benefit of yanks.
# Word list is incomplete, but covers enough to be useful for now.

ARGF.each_line do |line|
    line.sub!(/\b(amort|apolog|author|capital|critic|emphas|general|harmon|initial|maxim|minim|optim|real|recogn|visual)is(e|ed|es|er|or|ation)\b/, '\1iz\2')
    line.sub!(/\b(anal|catal|paral)ys(e|ed|es|er|or)\b/, '\1yz\2')
    line.sub!(/\b(arm|behavi|col|flav|harb|hon|hum|neighb|sav|savi)our(s?)\b/, '\1or\2')
    line.sub!(/\b(defen|licen|offen|preten)ce(s?)\b/, '\1se\2')
    line.sub!(/\b(calib|cent|fib|kilomet|lit|meag|met|theat)re(s?)\b/, '\1er\2')
    line.sub!(/\bpractis(e|ed|ing)\b/, 'practic\1')
    puts line;
end

My only concern is that it might match an ID somewhere in the HTML which will mess the CSS up, but otherwise, it’s looking like a damn good idea.

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