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Its funny I always work at the wrong time, its a weekend but I’m “working”.

But so I completed a trial overhaul for the webpage of Everfeed, an engineering company in Singapore. Current site, Redesigned site. Nothing fanciful, just trying to make it plain simple but usable.

Today 2 batch of people I know left Singapore, one in the morning, one at night. This is the 3rd time I failed to see them off at Changi, and suprisingly this makes me feel “sadder” than when I usually see people off at the airport.

An interesting post on how I could work on my ajax spell checker plugin, PhotoMatt mentions how google spell checking webservice could be used.

The issue to this is that, using ajax (in fact javascript), browser security won’t allow you to call a webservice for a remote site. This means, ajax scripts still have to contact its parent server, which in turns “relays” and contacts google’s webservice.

This means, most likely this would be much slower than (aspell thru) pspell, but, given google has mutiple language support or other more advance features, this could be played around with.

Chris Meller implement a cool php script for it already, and I could be modifing pspell (again) to use google spelling webservice.

Another thing I did today, was writing a mix scripts (bash, javascript). Then i realised, 1 powerful feature of unix/linux is in its tools, piping them and writing batch shell scripts could do almost what you need. In a way this is simpler than programming “apis” and get done what you need sooner.