http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php Language and technology and where they intersect with culture, business and government . en books@multilingual.com 2009-06-25 15:06:00 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/nifty-typing-aid-for-latin-script-characters/ Donna Parrish 2009-06-25 15:30:00 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/obama-translated-into-farsi-and-arabic/ Donna Parrish 2009-06-24 10:13:01 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/the-linkedinfail-firestorm/ For those of you not up on Twitter yet (you sinners) you might be unaware of the #linkedinfail ’firestorm‘ concerning the recent survey of translators by LinkedIn about translating the site on an, er, non-monetary basis. @localization 2009-06-23 15:51:01 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/localization-unconference-dublin/ I haven’t forgotten the Localization UnConference that was held in Dublin, Ireland, last month. Honest! @localization 2009-06-23 15:46:00 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/google-translator-toolkit/ Donna Parrish 2009-06-16 07:02:00 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/twitter/ Where have I been for the last month? No Blogos postings? Been on Twitter, that’s where. You can reach out to me (if it’s really me, or just me, which it might not be) at @localization. If you don’t know what Twitter is, then it’s a kinda cross between making a long-distance telephone call in the 1980s and hanging up after 10 seconds and a bunch of drunks screaming into the night at their “friends.” Er, I mean, it’s a social media micro-blogging tool.  It’s the latest thing. Or was, given the pace some people tire of social media. Multilingual is there too, tweeting away (@multilingualmag). {category_name backspace="1"}, @localization 2009-05-14 14:20:00 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/now-oracle-has-a-new-sun/ Update: Oracle buys Sun. Oracle is positive about the acquisition, which, I suppose, makes sense. Nobody would shell out $7.4 billion for something that was obviously a bad investment, unless bad investments themselves have become a way of getting added cash flow. Sun also appears positive, naturally. K. Botkin 2009-04-20 10:25:00 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/spring-drama-with-sun-and-the-big-blue-yonder/ There has been much speculation on the talks that IBM and Sun Microsystems aren’t officially having, ever since word leaked out that they weren’t officially having them. K. Botkin 2009-04-06 10:28:00 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/localizing-team-spirit-and-other-impossibilities/ Rugby is not that popular in America, the land of college sports. Like soccer, it’s sort of relegated to the shadows, played by club teams and European transplants. However, it has, at least in the Stateside circles I know, gained a bit more steam in recent years. I went down to a Rugby tournament this weekend that featured teams from at least three states to cheer on my brother, until a few months ago an American football player to the core. K. Botkin 2009-03-10 13:02:01 PDT http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblog/a-love-story/ Jost Zetzsche introduces us to characters he loves. Donna Parrish 2009-03-06 10:14:00 PDT