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i played a lot with LEGO briks in my childhood, it was (and still is) an amazing and creative activity for me.

over the years, i was buying different models and toys just to have fun and enjoy collecting them.

until now, that childhood feeling is still here and pushes me to buy that huge lego box that costs almost 300TND.

today, LEGO turns 50, it's really amazing to see the impact of such small-multicolor-bricks on the human culture and childs games and how has meant something significant to endless millions of people around the world.

imagine how excited i am while playing with this toy ...
ps : click to enlarge

"I just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday, January 19th 2008 will mark the beginning of the 30-year countdown to the Y2K38 bug, when Unix time will overflow 32 bits. Some 30-year loan calculation software might start having problems with this over the weekend."

Y2K was just displaying errors, but Y2K38 is really harder to fix : sowftwares, databases, encryption ... and so on.
okey, in 30 years many things will change and we'll have some revolutions somewhere, who knows, unix timestamps may be obsolete.

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google released 23 translation chat-bots.
you just send them a message and they'll reply back with the translation within a second.
you can use it inside Google Talk or any other jabber client.

List of bots:
ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en

Explanation on the language codes:
EN = English, NL = Dutch, DE = German, ES = Spanish, FR = French, IT = Italian, KO = Korean, RU = Russian, JA = Japanese, ZH = Chinese.

you need just to add the bot like this to your buddylist: [FirstLanguage]2[SecondLanguage]@bot.talk.google.com
ex : en2ar@bot.talk.google.com, to translate from english to arabic

it's a quite nice stuff, i just added fr2en and it's really cool.
since this service is hosted by google, i think that it'll be pretty efficient.
enjoy

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