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DVD Commentary

Posted: 2011-01-21 – 4 Comments

Generally, DVDs have an option for what are mostly audio commentaries, i.e. someone talks while the movie plays on-screen. Some of the commentaries are well-scripted, others contain more or less useless extemporizing. In my opinion, they are rarely worth watching. I just … [Read more...] about DVD Commentary

Catgerories: Rants Tags: commentary option, unscripted audio commentary, useless DVD content

GMail And Clueless Users

Posted: 2010-11-17 – 5 Comments

My Google Mail account goes back a long way – to the Spring of 2004, to be exact. Even though I got in early, Michael@ wasn’t available anymore and I settled for MichaelW@. [I prefer not to use my last name as the account name since English speakers almost always invert the “a” … [Read more...] about GMail And Clueless Users

Catgerories: Rants Tags: clueless e-mail users, Google Mail particularities

Held Hostage

Posted: 2010-01-09 – 4 Comments

One thing that really, really annoys me is when I start a DVD to watch a movie or a TV show and it is set up so that I have to endure trailers and announcements of other programs without being able to switch directly to the main menu. (I’m looking at you right now, BBC.) I … [Read more...] about Held Hostage

Catgerories: Rants Tags: BitTorrent, DVD, trailers

Playing With Rabbits

Posted: 2009-11-28 – 3 Comments

I just read “Myths about crowdsourced translation” by Nataly Kelly in the digital edition of MultiLingual, and I just have to respond to “Myth #1”: Please stop spreading the untruth that post-editing machine translation is this great opportunity for translators. Those who say … [Read more...] about Playing With Rabbits

Catgerories: Rants, Translation Tags: machine translation, MT, post-editing

Don’t Be Fooled…

Posted: 2009-09-30 – 4 Comments

It had to happen at one point, I guess. When “Translate This” started to follow me on Twitter, I had a bad feeling. Well, I don’t really own the title of this blog, but, Doug and Yoshie, could you really think of nothing better than to use the same title, including the … [Read more...] about Don’t Be Fooled…

Catgerories: Rants Tags: cheap imitation, find your own blog title, rip-off

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