I must have been a good boy in 2006: Santa brought me an iPod video! I have been using iTunes for quite a while and never upgraded to version 7, but the iPod video comes without software and requires iTunes 7. Ok, I thought, how difficult can it be?
At 1 a.m. I was ready to kill someone. The software upgrade just would not install. When it came to installing QuickTime (as part of iTunes), I hit an error –3. Over and over again. I uninstalled, scrubbed, cleaned the registry, installed QuickTime by itself before iTunes – all to no avail. Finally, just before 2 a.m., I found this post in The Incrementalist. It did the trick and I could go to bed.
Moving boxes and checking content of my vinyl archives, I came across this EP by Richard Anthony. It is hard to believe how popular he was at one time, and I even went to a sold-out live concert of his in Saarbrücken one year. Many of his hits were French covers of American songs.
“The last job that only humans can accomplish is that of translation.” In this NPR segment, Andrei Codrescu contemplates why languages resist translation.
I often find it difficult to decide the tags for posts. Obviously, I have been overthinking the problem. This Slashdot post shows us how tags ought to be used.
On Saturdays, USA Weekend comes with our daily paper. Today’s cover story: Clive Owen – Dad first, star second.
A dueling commitment to work and family means he lives two very different lives.
I’m going to go out here on a limb as a non-native speaker: Even if commitments could duel, of which I am not convinced, wouldn’t it take two to tango?
Die Quelle meiner musikalischen Unterhaltung, Last.fm, hat nun als Betaversion auch eine deutsche Benutzeroberfläche. „Deutschsprachler“ sind eingeladen, zu kommentieren und Vorschläge zu machen. Wie man sich vorstellen kann, bleibt viel Terminologie auf Englisch stehen. Forumskommentar eines Deutschsprachlers:
Im übrigen finde ich es großartig, dass ihr auf Holzhammer-Übersetzungen verzichtet habt und beispielsweise das Dashboard immer noch Dashboard heißt. Anglizismen rocken den shit.
