The translation blogosphere is abuzz today with posts about International Translation Day, celebrated each year on September 30, the feast of St. Jerome. If you'd like to learn more about St. Jerome and his works, hop on over to Jill Sommer's post all about him. Every year, the … [Read more...] about Happy International Translation Day
Don't do it: eliminating time-sucking activities from your day
Get Rich Slowly has a great post about the amount of time that most Americans spend watching TV, and what other things could be accomplished if that time were freed up. It's a good reminder that in many ways, productivity is closely related to what we don't do. This post rang especially true to me … [Read more...] about Don't do it: eliminating time-sucking activities from your day
Some thoughts on incorporating
In the past few weeks I have received a number of questions about how, why and when to incorporate a freelance business. I'm not an accountant or an attorney, but I'll give an overview of the topic along with some of my own thoughts. After starting out as a sole proprietor (a self-employed … [Read more...] about Some thoughts on incorporating
Link: Tips for translating corporate communications
Corporate communications materials are some of the most difficult and most business-critical documents out there when it comes to translation. The company culture, the target audience, the spin that the company wants to put on its news, the most-used grammatical structures of the source and target … [Read more...] about Link: Tips for translating corporate communications
Update 2: Accented characters in OpenOffice.org
Bill Hibbert just sent an additional update about his macro for inserting accented characters in OpenOffice.org. Here it is! I've made a small change to the macro and its documentation that I never bothered with before because I didn't think anyone was interested. There has been a known problem … [Read more...] about Update 2: Accented characters in OpenOffice.org