Ode to London

Check out this insider’s guide to London written by Sarah Dillon on Brazen Careerist. Highly recommended.
By the way, in view of the UK’s current success in the Beijing Olympics, this Londoner is already getting very excited about the 2012 London Olympics!

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The changing face of America

Surprising news today from the US Census Bureau that Hispanics will account for 30% of the US population by 2050, a twofold increase. According BBC News:
White people of European descent will no longer make up a majority of the US population by the year 2042 – eight years sooner than previous estimates.
What will this

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Reported shortage of decent English translators for the EU, really?

I read this interesting article on the Times Online this morning, taken from the Sunday Times. We all know August is the silly season for the media, and although this particular story isn’t ’silly’ in the traditional sense, it did strike me as a little bizarre (particularly in light of the daft reader comments that

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Google Translation Center

Over the past couple of days I’ve been reading about the (apparently inadvertently leaked news about  Google Translation Center, and have been wondering what it really entails for the translation industry. I first saw a notice about the ‘leak’ on ProZ.com, and then read about it on cnetnews.com, and also today on the 

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Exciting new conference in November 2008

I’m going to be helping out at a brand new conference called ‘The Translator as Strategic Partner‘ on 22nd-23rd November this year. I know, I know we’re still only just entering summer, but the early bird catches the worm, as they say.
The conference is jointly sponsored by the ITI, the CIOL and ProZ, and the

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