Network Analyst who plays around with many things open source when he is not feeding his MMORPG addiction.
The Internet needed another source of rants and uninvited uninformed opinions.
Joel on Software has a very good article covering the basics of Unicode and all of the confusing charset and encoding mess that most people bump into daily (as garbled emails or weird looking characters on various websites) but never really understand.
It is primarily a rant from Joel Spolsky directed towards programmers but the article should be interesting to anyone with an interest in computers and how modern software works with all the various human languages.