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Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

Latest distraction: Adobe Muse, creating unique websites without writing code: http://t.co/xHMdaY9H. Lest we forget: Code is poetry.
7 hours ago

... and circumspection: "Traduttore, traditore" (Translator, traitor) - Italian adage. Both quotes from new TED Talk: http://t.co/E5gyjHNv
7 hours ago

Starting new translation job this evening. Inspiration No.1: "Every act of communication is an act of translation" - Gregory Rabassa
7 hours ago

Excellent insight into Senegal's most flagrant corruption: http://t.co/5pzyM2rW #Wade
1 day ago

Why every professor needs Linguistics 101: http://t.co/dZdUovHu sho nuff 'n' yes I do :-p
2 days ago

A slew of …

In a CNN Money article yesterday about the Facebook vs Google+ rivalry, my editor’s antennae started twitching when I read

“But defensive moves are not Zuckerberg’s style, and in September, at the company’s F8 developers event, he unleashed a sea of new features that alter the current service radically.”

“A sea of features”?

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Fucking with the magic

When Viacom President, Mel Karmazin, visited the Google HQ in 2003, it represented a meeting of two very different ways of doing business, in particular of making money from advertising. Karmazin was old school, having cut his teeth selling radio ads, pitching his way up to billion-dollar deals. The Google trinity — Larry, Eric and

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Come together

Ten days into the summer break and I feel a change coming on: no longer thinking about teaching projects and grading, my mind has been increasingly filled with personal geeky projects, driven in large part by the recent purchase of my first smartphone. I’m not going to give in to the boring clichés (it’s like

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Head in the clouds

I recently took advantage of the cheap software available for university staff and ordered Adobe CS5.5 Web Premium, bundled with InDesign and Captivate for … 26 euros … and MS Office 2010 for … 12 euros! I know! GTFOOH, I hear you cry enviously.

I actually hesitated about the second purchase since so much of

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