Ikhaluit in the heuse

I’m listening to CFFB right now (CBC North Radio One, Iqaluit), in the hope of hearing some Inuktitut.

And indeed I already heard a bit; a mixture of central and regional programming, the former in Canadian English, the latter in a mixture of Inuktitut and (slightly-accented) English.

Two things I’ve noticed are that the -q- in Iqaluit seems to be a bit fricative, something like Iχaluit (presumably because of its intervocalic position?); and the pronunciation of -ou- in house and about, which sounds distinctively different to what I’m used to but which I’m not sure how to notate. (The first half of the diphthong sounds closer to schwa, though.)

…and I just noticed some French influence: French-accented English from some speakers, and French names pronounced in French rather than with an anglicised pronunciation.

Kaspersky :-(

So I upgraded my Kaspersky Anti-Virus today because the license was about to run out (in a week or so).

And since the new license key wouldn’t work with my current software, I installed the new software as well.

And since then, things feel like molasses, especially browser start and Flash videos. Watching them full-screen just doesn’t work at all, and even watching them in a window, the video takes about five seconds to kick in, though the sound starts playing already. Even worse if you want to go back just a tad in a video: the sound picks up where you clicked but since the video takes a while to get going, you miss the bit you wanted to watch again.

I’m not particularly happy, and hope this’ll sort itself out.

Otherwise, I foresee some turning off of things in the future.

Edit: After a reboot, Flash videos seem usable again. Browser still seems a bit slow, though. Will have to keep an eye on things.