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New Logo/Wordmark Concept and Links

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I just wanted to post a new logo/wordmark concept I've come up with recently. It looks too damn serious ^__^ right? But I like it that way (*^o^*) By the way I happened to find three interesting new links to Tenka Text. First one on the links page of the Collection of Electronic Resources in Translation Technologies from the University of Ottowa , where they call my software "Un nouveau concurrent de WordSmith que vous pouvez télécharger gratuitement chez vous !" — "A new competitor of WordSmith which you can download for free!". Second one on the tools page of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik at the University of Cologne . Third one on the tools page of the Dutch Language Union . It's very encouraging to see something you do as a hobby get such recognition. ^__^

Sertcom, Unicode Standard 5.0 and Japanese Dramas

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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 t...