Musings of the Mad Wordsmith (and other things)

As a new leaf is starting for AUSIT , and we move our National Administration to PAMS , it is time to pay tribute to the person who had, for...

We had a big drama yesterday. Dan came back home earlier than usual from work, and that is one big blessing in this whole story. About 10 mi...

Not me :-) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7554892.stm presents a young Egyptian female writer, Ghada Abdelaal whose blog turned int...

It is difficult to say what the influence of Sami Khashaba was on me, but he definitely made me aware very early in my life what a great t...

I came back from Melbourne yesterday more a zombie than a human, but my inert mental state did not stop me from savouring the after-taste of...

Only on Sky Sport ( http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12325_3680560,00.html ) can you see such lack of tact towards other "English...

A very humane description of a day in the life of an interpreter. And so refreshingly reflective. Lost for words on a migrant's final jo...

Should someone inform the Ministry of Whoever is Counting - can't remember who it used to be - that if they continue to do this every ti...

Sam Berner interviews UN translator & interpreter, and AUSIT member Riham Youssef I heard Riham for the first time on SBS, and became an...

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...