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SpellingCow followup

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Just got the following message from Craig Nuttall, the creator of SpellingCow, as a comment to my LiteSpellChecker post:

Hello All. Right now I am spell checking this message as I type. I am the creator of SpellingCow ( http://www.spellingcow.com ). I would like to thank Emil for his hard work as he inspired my creation. […]

SpellingCow

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Browsed slashdot earlier today, and saw a post about SpellingCow, a remotely hosted ajax spell checker.
My initial reaction was “cool, someone picked up on my ajax spell checker idea and made something useful out of it”.
However as soon as I tried it I noticed a remarkable resemblance to the LiteSpellChecker component I wrote, as a […]

Back in town

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Got back from Manila this Thursday after having stayed about twice as long as originally planed. Didn’t see much of the city, basically just Mandaluyong, where the office was located, and Makati. Stayed at the Edsa Shangri-La, which was pretty nice, and not too far from the office. The city itself reminded me of Bangkok, […]

Marriott blast

Monday, November 1st, 2004

As reported elsewhere an explosion shattered the lobby of Marriott in Islamabad last Thursday. Luckily no one was killed or severely wounded but it got me somewhat worried. That’s the hotel I’m supposed to stay at when I leave for Pakistan later this week. Originally I was supposed to go two weeks ago, […]