At the recent W3C Technical plenary in Cannes, I was discussing issues of literal translation. A Japanese delegate came up with a phrase that was new to me. “緑の黒髪 （みどりのくろいかみ）” The phrase literally means green/black hair, but has an idiomatic meaning that the hair is very dark and lustrous.

Debian release a new version of Linux on 23^rd October 2008.

As I run an Apache testing web server on my Debian box, I installed the most recent updates. Then came the simple question of How can I be sure that I have the most recent version of Debian Linux.

The simplest way is to open the file /etc/debian_version . On a correctly installed Debian System, this has a single line entry showing the version number, as defined by the package base files.

Many thanks to Dragon for overseeing a smooth domain transfer of  www.mrpillow.co.uk   from edirectory’s servers at freecom.net over to united hosting.

This was tricky operation because the IPS tags appeared to be in the ether while both parties were attempting to serve DNS !

No problem for Dragon  who also created a new index file for mr pillow and  ensured that the www does not need to be typed in to find the website.

Thank you – Peter (Mr Pillow)