Take all the files!
Too many times, I’ve backed up what I thought were relevant parts of my office computer to take along with me on a road trip, only to find, once I’m at my destination, that I hadn’t included some...
View ArticleA parable of Hing Shi
I ran across the name of Yulia Dubinkina-Ilina a couple of years ago in connection with a parable she apparently wrote that caused me to arch my eyebrows and imagine hearing a little “pop!” of...
View ArticleTerminology insight…
One thing I try to take advantage of here in Baikonur is the ability to ask questions of subject-matter experts so as to gain insight into terminology useful for translation. This is an outgrowth of my...
View ArticleFont-Hacking the Kindle
Products developed in the United States typically need to be reworked at some point to “internationalize” them, particularly from the perspective of the use of non-Latin characters. Amazon’s Kindle...
View ArticleAttending the ATA Conference?
If you’re attending this year’s ATA Conference, being held in Denver, Colorado, and you happen to be interested in aerospace terminology, stop by my presentation on Saturday. Details cribbed from the...
View ArticleA taste of bout-rimé…
Oh, but wordsmiths love to play games with words. The story is told of a minor 17th century French poet who composed 300 sonnets—or as it turned out, only the rhymes for 300 sonnets—that were lost when...
View Article2011 ATA Conference Presentation
My presentation at the 52nd ATA Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, went off on time with a pretty full room that grew to standing-room-only; I’d estimate around 200 attendees. From all accounts, it...
View ArticleStanding by to reboot!
This blog will be “under construction” for the next little while. To all who visit in the interim: Happy New Year! Well, we can put away the (virtual) big orange cones, steel-toed boots, and hard hats...
View ArticleIf the mountain won’t come…
I absolutely adore my ScanSnap scanner, except for one small peeve: the keyboard shortcut that calls up the unit’s organizer software (Ctrl+Shift+Space) is the same key chord that inserts a nonbreaking...
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