Kanji
Quick test post. Somehow I’d imagine all my posts will be logged under ‘accidental’, just the nature of the beast.
I saw the little pictogram pop up in the browser bar and scuttled off to my Kanji dictionary. It took a while to find as I thought it was a 12 stroke character, but it’s a 13-er - there seems to be a horizontal stroke missing from the square box on the right (it should be divided up into quarters according to the dict.).
Anyway, naturally enough, it’s the character representing ‘Zen’, which consists of the root element ‘god’ (the bit on the left), and a phonetic element ‘Sen/tan/dan’ (the bit on the right) which means ’single’ when it appears on its own, gets pronounced ‘tan’ and is supposed to be a picture of ‘a single weapon with a forked end’.
Interesting, but will not help you get a cab when you step out of the arrivals hall in Tokyo…
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… and then I post the message and the character is appearing in all its full glory, complete with extra horizontal line, at the head of the page. It even appears in the browse bar correctly now. Which is kind of interesting to me from a nerdy localisation/dtp point of view. Gosh darned it!
Plus I thought I was entering a little category called ‘ the accidental’ which I thought was a cool name for irrelevancies such as mine own, when in fact it’s ‘the accidental cook’ (’the reluctant hero’, ‘the Fatal Englishman’, ‘the practical cat’) can we not have an ‘accidental’ category? Well, it was a test….
Comment by Michael — January 6, 2005 @ 07:42 GMT
Your knowledge of crap never ceases to amaze me. You are full of it.
Comment by Jim — January 6, 2005 @ 11:02 GMT