Juha,
I'll start be saying that I'm a pedant and can't stop myself from making
annoying comments. OK?
Annoying comment number 1: In various places on the DC5 Web page and
registration form there are strange sequences of digits and punctuation
characters. At first I thought that these may be astrological symbols whose
purpose is to bring good fortune to the Workshop. Then I looked around this
hotel in San Jose (where I've come for the Unicode Conference), saw the SF fans
gathered here for a Science Fiction Convention and decided that these strings
of characters may be inscriptions in Klingon, possibly translations of certain
key phrases for the sake of Klingon attendees at DC5. If I have misunderstood
and the strange character sequences are intended to convey some meaning to us
Earthlings, please could I request that you translate them into some form even
I will understand. For example, if they are meant to represent dates, then
something like "6.-8.10.1997" could be replaced, fairly painlessly, by "6-8
October 1997" [no, I'm not suggesting you use ISO 8601!]. If this annoying
comment makes you want to bite my head off, please let me say that I have made
equally annoying comments to US Web site authors on seeing their strange
notation.
Annoying comment number 2: It might be better if the apple core linked
directly to the main DC Web site and there was a separate link to the Nordic DC
Web site.
Annoying comment number 3: Please fix Carl's URLs. The script does strange
things with URLs which don't start with "http://". I noticed this when
registering for DC4.
Thank you for reading this far,
Misha
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