Sertcom, Unicode Standard 5.0 and Japanese Dramas

I've been slacking off on many things recently, including my hobby project. I'm posting from Flensburg, the northernmost city of Germany. Coming from Heidelberg/Mannheim, aka "Delta Region", you get to experience a mild intranational culture shock up in the north. It feels like a big town that cherishes horizontal freedoms rather than vertically stacked-up big cities I'm used to seeing in Southern Germany.


Now to the reason of my stay in Flensburg. My brother acquired an established telemarketing company in Neumünster, Germany and is renaming it "Sertcom". So I ended up paying him a visit to see how he managed to get so far. The last time I was here he was a team leader. What a rapid development.


Unicode Standard 5.0

The only thing I'm doing nowadays that bears some relevance to my studies and job is reading the version 5.0 of the Unicode standard. I'm now almost ready to fix some remeaning issues with my segmenter implementation that features the quality of being fast and compilable at runtime according to the logic users provide.

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Japanese Dramas

Here are some suggestions for dorama fans from summer season 2007:


ホタルノヒカリ - Hotaru No Hikari (wiki)



パパとムスメの７日間 - Papa to Musume ... (wiki)

Go d-addict yourselves to japanese drama!

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