Musings of the Mad Wordsmith (and other things)

In Memoriam Lidia Gawronska 02/01/1941 - 13/02/2007

I have always had my photos online, from Yahoo! Photos to Flickr, but they were my photos of others, of other things, of nature - never of m...

Translators might tell you that they know of knowledge management (KM) as a term they translate – but many of them are doing precisely that ...

A few years ago, as a postgraduate student and a KM consultant, I made continual fun of my less-than-enthusiastic colleagues and clients who...

Published in SAJIM Vol8(1) 2006 Two separate incidents led to the writing of this issue's column. Incident one: I was walking my dogs on...

My road to 'information as science' went through 'information as medium' long before I decided to tackle the more academic a...

Published in SAJIM, June 2007 Vol 9(2) I remember a few years ago attending an IT conference presentation about all the wonderful gadgets th...

Published in SAJIM, Sept 2007 Vol. 9(3) In 2001, which seems like pre-history in Internet time, I wrote a research report about e-books in w...

http://www.kalima.ae/eng.php Not surprisingly, our team has been eyeing this from the moment of its inception. Not any longer. We have slowl...

I don't mean to be unkind, but I have just finished checking business cards for a few people working at a local government department wh...

Review Gouadec, D. (2007) Translation As a Profession . Amsterdam: John Benjamins If I had enough money to buy just a single volume of trans...

From SMH: http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2007/08/xenophilia_hills_hoist_by_book.html A biography of Japan's Princess Masako publis...

From the Indian Telegraph, Sunday 19th August: Tagore wrote Shey (He) for his granddaughter Pupe. It is a world of delightful and bizarre ad...

Persian translation of fake “Harry Potter” hits Iran’s bookstores TEHRAN, Aug. 15 ( MNA ) -- A Persian translation of the internet counterf...

From http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/224219.html World briefs: French teen a wizard at translation PARIS A determined French 16-...

One more chapter to the sage of two days ago, this time in Hungary: " Hungarian HP publisher to sue over illegal translation Animus, t...

The Daily Telegraph (London) has published a short piece stating that the Chinese censors have closed down a group of teenage translators wo...

I find this absolutely hilarious: How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions By Jo Best Story last modified Thu Aug 19 11:36:00 PDT 2004 M...

A few weeks ago I received an email via Proz from some Pakistani Fazul who wanted me to help him. The subject heading sounded like one of th...

Borders. I love Borders. I planned to stay at the Not-so-Glorious Gloria Jeans and peck on my laptop (hoping the hotspot in the City is func...