Remember this story I blogged about a few days ago ? Well, 20 Minutes reports that the management of the France 2 TV station was not amused by the translator who took some liberties when translating Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech. An « Inadmissible » incident is what they called it, and it cost the translator his job. But… Poursuivre la lecture Translation and Politics: Follow-Up
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Translation and Politics
I’m a translator. It’s actually quite a strange thing to write for me, because this state of fact kind of crept up on me over the last few years. But professionally, that’s what I am now. Officially. It’s also presidential election time in France. 10 days to the 2nd round. Nicolas Sarkozy the conservative against… Poursuivre la lecture Translation and Politics
ARM-wrestling
Quick geeky post which may help some people out there. I couldn’t find definitive answers to the questions below, and I’ll probably forget them if I don’t write them down somewhere, so here we go.
Task Management with Mail.app
I have to juggle dozens of short-term to-do items at any given time, so I need a process that is fast and practical, so that things don’t fall through the cracks. I stopped relying on my memory a long time ago. Fast and practical in this case means simple. I like simple. So my process… Poursuivre la lecture Task Management with Mail.app
Time to upgrade
As you know if you’ve followed this blog for a while, I have a first-generation iMac G5 (which has had most of it’s parts replaced at least once), and a first-generation MacBook. The iMac is 4.5 years-old and my main net-surfing, emailing and music-making machine. A testament to the shameful, anti-American Apple corporate policy of… Poursuivre la lecture Time to upgrade
WBMFM
I translate software programs, and the associated help files and manuals, for a living. Most of these programs (and manuals) are American and I translate them into French. And they are not obscure little programs. No. They are created by big international companies, like Microsomething, and HAL, etc. The best of them are not inspiring… Poursuivre la lecture WBMFM
Hardware v1.0
One of the things I’ve discovered working on the OZÉ project, is that creating hardware is a lot like creating software. It sounds counter-intuitive, but there really are many, many similarities. I’m not going to elaborate, except to point out one of the consequences of this fact. It is risky to buy the first version… Poursuivre la lecture Hardware v1.0
The hard dish installs the manual
A little (more) translation humor (via Reddit).
The Woof Commences Now
So Microsoft is said to have a half-billion dollar budget to advertise its new Windows Vista operating system. And they came up with the following, inspiring slogan: « The Wow Starts Now », next to the new, rounded Windows « Start » button. Umm, OK. I couldn’t help remembering that when the first iMac came out, you know, the… Poursuivre la lecture The Woof Commences Now
Strike Two
Got the second MacBook today. It had none of the flaws of the previous one, nor any that I’d seen mentioned on forums and such. Good news, right? Well, yes, except the screen is defective. The angle of vision is all out of whack. At normal eye level, the top of the screen is OK… Poursuivre la lecture Strike Two