Mimdadbin


Now what am I on about?!?

Naught but this:



I'll let y'all wonder about that while I catch forty-or-so winks.

But hopefully not as many nudges! "Wink wink, knowharramean?"

(Mark does, I know! Know, I mean.)

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And I'm back!

Since my foray into XML-RPC with ArchimelesX is proving so successful (and interesting), I've decide to start yet another side project(?!?) to create a desktop app to manage the membership and mailing list subscription database I've been tinkering with. I was trying to come up with a generic name ("OpiMD" was an initial thought, but it sounds too much like Andy's son grew up to be a doctor. Rather than a film director!) and hit on the one in the title; kind of a permutation (not really an anagram, is it?) of "mem(bership) db admin".(1) It occurred to me on the drive home that this sounds sort-of Arabic, so I messed (something terrible) with the fonts from Character Palette (OS X is a would-be-polyglot's dream!) in OmniGraffle and came up with the above.

Hopefully it won't turn out to actually say something blasphemous in Arabic!

(I remember something from a few years back about a Japanese tire maker being sued by an Islamic group which claimed that a pattern in the tread on one of their popular models was actually one of the 99(?) Names of God written in Arabic script. Made the newspaper, maybe not front page, but I don't remember how it turned out. Tire maker backed down and recalled, possibly. I certainly don't need that kind of hassle!)

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Nothing done on Phoenix yesterday, other than checking out the SF CVS code on the office machine and confirming that it compiles without problem.

I love it when things start coming together!

(Anyone got a monkey wrench?)



(1) Note that in my native Suhth'n Uhiyuh dialect [ɛ] neutralizes to [ɩ] before nasals, so "pen" and "pin", "ken" and "kin", "send" and "sinned", etc. — normally distinctive minimal pairs in standard dialects — both sound the same, like the latter word in each case. So for me it's not too much of a stretch from "member" to "mimber"!

Posted: Thu - February 10, 2005 at 03:30 AM           |

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