Online Encyclopaedias August 5 2008 at 10:57 AM

Many translators would agree that academic curiosity and a willingness to learn new things are vital assets in the highly competitive translation market. While marketing skills and linguistic knowledge are essential for a successful career in freelance translation, translators must also know how to research new terms and understand what it is that they are translating. This is especially true of those translators who choose to specialise as they will need to be familiar with the relevant jargon and... More

To John from Transhorsa.com/org July 20 2008 at 10:10 PM

Hello John,
I just received from you a second comment with exactly the same content of a message you left a couple of days ago. As you do seem to have a habit of leaving comments on irrelevant posts and, at the same time, ignoring my reply to your comment, I think it’s advisable to write a post to draw your attention so you could stop this SPAM act.
On July 18, 2008, you left on Kelly’s post a comment (http://www.yeasir.com/blog/2008/06/how-to-keep-up-with-the-times/#comment-2587) as follows:
Hi... More

How to Keep Up With the Times June 10 2008 at 5:50 PM

Many translators would agree that living in the country where your source language is spoken is the best way to build upon your existing language skills and give your translation career a certain credibility. It’s hard to disagree with this view. Immersing yourself in the local language and culture is the ideal way to equip yourself with the linguistic and cultural knowledge needed for a career in translation. What better way to learn obscure slang and the latest ‘buzzwords’ than... More

FireFox Warns About MSN Phishing Sites June 4 2008 at 9:28 PM

FireFox now displays a warning (see picture on the left, click to see large image) when you are tricked to click on some of the ‘Pics for MSN Friends’ phishing site URLs created by the so-called ‘TST Management Inc.’
At the time of writing, a new URL emerged and, according to the ‘official’ phishing site’s server status report, “c0mpics.info” is now the most active site that’s hoaxing not only MSN users, but ICQ users.
When you visit the... More

WordPress 404 Not Found Problem June 4 2008 at 5:54 PM

I stayed up late last night and was up early this morning. But it didn’t help with my WordPress blog’s ‘404 Not Found’ problem.
Actually it happened yesterday afternoon when I installed a plug-in that tampered with my .htaccess file. The install document was so badly written in some sort of English that in the end I was driven nuts and uninstalled it. I manually removed the part that it inserted into my .htaccess, but didn’t realize I probably mistakingly deleted/altered... More