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La Naturaleza del Software in Chinese?

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Going through this site’s visits as reported by whos.among.us, I discovered a surprising visit from the Far East. If the geolocation systems aren’t wrong, I had a visitor from Dalian, in the Liaoning region of China.

One thing is certain: this person didn’t understand what my blog said and needed to translate it into simplified Chinese using Google, and what they saw was more or less this:

Extraordinary!

Dalian is a heavily industrialized city in Liaoning province, on the Liaodong peninsula, with more than 6 million inhabitants, and it’s huge!

According to Wikipedia, it has a coastline of 1,690 kilometers (a bit more than a third of the length of Chile).

I wonder, what exactly do these characters say?:

As far as my understanding of the Chinese language goes (which is next to nothing), these signs may evoke an image associated with the idea of the nature of software.

Is there a reader who understands these symbols and can tell me whether they roughly translate the name of this blog?

This strange visitor makes me reflect on many things… and one of the most striking is the fact that I was able to trace where they came from, how long they spent reading this blog, I know their IP, and how they viewed my site. What else could I find out about him or her?

That is interesting, beautiful and terrible all at once, don’t you think?

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