Entries from March 2002
Spy work
One of my clients sent me on a slightly bizarre mission that has nothing to do with translation, at least not directly. I was charged with taking my trusty digicam and shooting some pix of a couple of car dealerships in the area. Not too hard, but I was worried that either I’d wind up [...]
Yahoo was pretty cool, once
Yahoo was pretty cool, once upon a time. Now they’ve got their hooks in us and they’re turning evil. If you are a member of a mailing list hosted at Yahoo, or have ever bought anything through a Yahoo-affiliated store online, or have a “My Yahoo” page–basically, if Yahoo has any information on you at [...]
Blogging considered dangerous
From MSNBC’s report on PC Forum, an annual tech-industry gathering:
But we’re only beginning to grasp how weird it is to have wireless Net access all the time. One harbinger: during Tuesday morning’s session with Qwest telecommunications CEO Joe Nacchio, several conference participants were typing their impressions into personal ‘Web logs,’ online diaries available to all [...]
Post-trip check-in
Been a while since I checked in here. Not for a lack of things to say–the opposite, if anything. So this’ll be an omnibus blog entry.
Two weeks ago, had my first light-up with the staff. This went well. There’s definitely an added rush with something new, and the staff is an inherently appealing apparatus.
I was [...]
Stalin World
Stalin World in Lithuania: described as “an unlikely theme park.” Yep, that about sums it up.
Pato’s Tacos burned down
Pato’s Tacos has burned down. This used to be where the local firedancing community met for practice, though we stopped using it in May 2001 when they started construction on the empty lot we’d been using. It’s still too bad to see that it’s gone. No, the irony of the fact that it was consumed [...]
Albert Huffstickler, RIP
Albert Huffstickler has died. I never actually knew him, but I saw him around all the time. He was a neighborhood institution and was the poet laureate (I’m not sure whether I should put scare-quotes around that or not) of Hyde Park.
Rikai.com
If you have an interest in the Japanese language, Rikai.com is a startling, fascinating website. It takes other websites (or whatever plain text you feed it) and displays them with a translation layer, so that when you point at a word in Japanese, the translation appears.
Unfortunately it’s a bit buggy, and it seems to work [...]
