3-line material for this year’s Memorial invitation is available at the 3-Line Translations - Theo. Study Aids... site. Click on the Misc. button, then on 2008 Memorial Invites on the resulting page to be taken to the download page.
There are Pinyin + Trad., Pinyin + Simp., Sidney Lau, and Yale versions.
Thanks to all who were involved in making these available.
The password for the zip file at the Pinyin Macro for OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice & IBM Lotus Symphony page has been changed because some of the characters in the old password were causing incompatibilities.
The Links file available at the Chinese Links File page has been updated with the new password, and it is now dated 2008-02-20.
I just discovered that Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista will not let you “select the complete password, NOT including the quotation marks” from the Links update email when it is displaying it when logged on to Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail—it insists on automatically selecting the quotation marks as well. I would not be surprised if it behaved this way on Windows XP as well, or if other versions of Internet Explorer did the same thing on whatever version of Windows they are running on, although I have not yet tested this.
This feature was surely meant to be helpful, but in this case it causes a problem instead. Here are a couple of ways to get around this:
Interestingly, Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista will let you exclude the quotation marks when selecting passwords from the Links file itself. The Links email is in plain text to accommodate email systems that do not support HTML mail, while the Links file itself is made up of HTML code, one of the main types of program code used for web pages.
The next Links file update has finally been released! Those of you who are on the list to receive email updates have been sent an email with directions on how to obtain this updated file. If you have not received this email update and would like to, email me about receiving the update and getting added to the mailing list.
Those of you who have used previous versions of the Links file will notice that it has undergone a major redesign. This redesign is intended to help make it easier to find things in the growing list of resources. Besides helping you to find what you are looking for, the system may even help you to discover resources that are available, but that you had not thought of looking for.
Hopefully it will not be too difficult to figure out how to use the redesigned file. However, I recommend that the included directions be read first. Besides including instructions and examples on how to use the new design, the directions also discuss redistribution of the file.
One of the results of the redesign is that the file may not work right when it is attached to an email. The HTML code of the file itself is standards-compliant, but I found in my testing that some email systems would not run it properly. So, the file should now be used by saving it to a drive and opening it in a modern web browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or Opera. After you open it, you may want to bookmark it or add it to your Favorites for easy retrieval later on.
In addition to the new design, there are also a significant number of new and updated resources on the list. These are listed under the *** NEW *** and *** UPDATED *** index headings. Resources that are new to the list include
Hopefully, you will find this update to be worth the long wait. And now that the re-architecting has been done, future updates should follow in much less time than this one took. Enjoy!
The links that were offline, as mentioned in the previous post, are now back online. Again, sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Some of the links will be offline temporarily while a problem with the web host is attended to, including the links for the Chinese courses and those for the km magazine presentation and computer-generated NWT audio files. The br. who arranged for this web host for us tells me it should be resolved in a few days. If there are some files you need during the next few days that are offline, just email me and I will send them to you directly. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.
I have decided to delay the release of the next Links update until this is resolved, to help ensure a good experience with it for everyone. It should give me time to squeeze in at least one more goody...
Work on the next Links update is nearing completion. It should only be a few more days now...