Doorbells and weblogs
am 28.11.2004 von TransblawgStuart Mudie asks in a comment to the last entry whether I’m trying to compete with Andrew Lossowsky. Well, I had not seen his doorbell pictures although I …
Entry on machine translation for weblogs/Automatische Übersetzung für Weblogs
Transblawg / In Andrew Joscelynes Weblog Blogos, zu Sprachtechnologien, ist ein Eintrag auf Englisch über den Gebrauch von Übersetzungssystemen bei Weblogs. Andrew Joscelyne has an entry in Blogos on possibilities for machine translation in weblogs. One
Ergonomic keyboards / Ergonomische Tastaturen
Transblawg / I find ergonomic keyboards fascinating, although I haven’t got one at the moment. Translation in the Trenches mentions two unfamiliar to me. I’m sure they don’t mind me uploading pictures - it’s all advertising. First, the Dat
Comments and comment spam
Transblawg / Recently someone posted a comment on one of my entries advertising not one URL, but 176 URLs. With Jay Allen’s MT Blacklist plugin for MT 2 (I believe there’s a variant for MT 3), it’s easy to remove. And I...
Weblogs searched in frames/Weblogs in Frames durchgesucht
Transblawg / As Robin Stocks notes, one doesn’t want one’s weblog to appear within a frame carrying a disclaimer but also advertising for one of the numerous translators’ sites that have become so popular recently. I don’t know whether the
Poetry meme
Transblawg / There’s a meme going around weblogs at the moment that says ‘When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your blog’. (Via Desbladet, dust from a distant sun) I nearly posted part of Huchel’s ‘Wei Dun und die...
German Joys weblog comes to life
Transblawg / I have already mentioned Andrew Hammel’s German Joys weblog. Andrew Hammel teaches legal English at Düsseldorf University. I see I said his weblog had awakened last October. Well, now it’s awakened even more. Oh, except that he’
Websters online dictionary - Rosetta edition
Transblawg / What on earth is this ‘dictionary’? Here it is on translator. There are seven pictures of translators, none of which are me. Very bizarre. If you click on ‘references’, you are taken to amazon.com. We know ‘Webster’
New language comment on earlier entry
Transblawg / On July 21st I had an entry on a new language invented in Regensburg. I have now received an email from one Robert Maier, who apparently knows something about this but mysteriously describes himself as ‘happily far from Regensburg’. I...
Comments blocked
Transblawg / Apparently comments from Hotmail addresses can’t be posted on my weblog. The following comment from Michael Wahlster at Translate This! was refused posting permission. Here’s the comment, on the subject of online ads: Armin is right. Acce
