I wanted to write a post explaining why I consistently confuse Spain with Israel and Japan in Greek, but for some reason Firefox won’t let me enter lowercase Greek letters. Anywhere. (No more searching youtube for rebetiko songs either, until I figure out what’s going on. Anyone got a clue? Weird thing is, uppercase works fine. Pasting gives me the kind of junk you’d expect putting multibyte chars into a single-byte environment, but the character encoding is utf8. Confuzzled, me.)

Bah. Bah and humbug. You’ll have to try to figure out what links those three countries yourselves. (Hint: some Greek letters look like different Latin letters. Second hint: I’m an idiot.)