Posted on 2012-01-22
When I read the first couple of sentences in the following quote of a Eurobarometer study conducted by the Gallup Organization about the languages preferred by European Internet users, I was very happy.
While 90% of Internet surfers in the EU...
Posted on 2012-01-20
In one of those aggregated dailies that are the bane of the Twitterverse I came across the tantalizing headline “German Technical Translation.” Well, I thought, let’s find out about German technical translation.
The link took me to a page...
Posted on 2012-01-06
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In the early 70s, I was working for Collins Publishers in an old and very cold building in Glasgow’s Cathedral Street. Whenever we sat shivering over our documents, we would talk about how much nicer work could be if only...
Posted on 2012-01-03
The new figures are out, and they confirm what I wrote last December 13:
I’m shocked at the speed with which Web surfers seem to have become Internet-illiterate. It will be interesting to see the numbers at the end of this year.
Experian...
Posted on 2011-12-21
It is fitting that this should be post #700 of my blog.
Even in my fourth year in Southern California I cannot get over how great the weather is. Here we are on the day of the Winter solstice – the skies are blue; the camellias are blooming;...
Posted on 2011-12-13
This item has been sitting in my draft folder for a long time. In December of 2010, Experian Hitwise published statistical data on the most popular search terms. According to their data, “facebook login” was the second most frequent term...
Posted on 2011-11-15
Saarländer haben ihn gerne als einen der ihren vereinnahmt, doch für den Liedermacher und Anwalt (oder eher Anwalt und Liedermacher?) war das Institut für Europäisches Recht an der Saaruni nur eine Durchgangsstation. Geboren wurde er 1931...