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My Toronto Star Insult

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Ouch!

« One recalls with some amusement former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau’s wish in keeping Vidéotron from the clutches of one-time suitor Ted Rogers of Toronto because of the need for Quebec to preserve « the character and identity of culture in the marketplace. »

A recent manifestation of that goal is Ma Maison Rona , a popular TVA home renovation show that takes the name of the big Quebec hardware chain — harking back to a primitive era when the highest-rated shows on the small screen bore names like Hallmark and Kraft. How soon will Rogers respond with My Home Depot House and the Indigo Literary Hour? « 

Typos don’t matter

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This makes me feel much better about my typing skills:

occdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

The comment Joi adds about not being able to correct titles because of the way permalinks are set up is also very true for me. I’ve had to set up permanent redirects on some posts that had accented letters in the titles when I changed the character encoding of my pages: apparently MT re-encoded the titles differently, which left me with duplicate individual archive pages..

[Joi Ito → Jerry]