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Google Translation is fantastic!

The Google Research blog has a great post about their latest development: Arabic translation. From what I understand, it’s hard to translate back and forth between English and Arabic because of the different sentence structures, but they’ve done it!

Google TranslationThanks to Google Translation and the power of the Internet, now you can read my site in eight languages other than English: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. Arabic is coming soon.

Let me know how it reads in your language! 🙂 Just look for the Translate section in the site’s sidebar footer.

Updated 9/28/07: Arabic was added several months ago.

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Judge rules in favor of allowing employees to surf the net at work

A New York judge has just ruled employees can’t be fired for surfing the Internet at work, as long as it doesn’t interfere with their productivity – he talked about it as an activity similar to using the phone. Techdirt has the details on this. He is to be lauded for his wonderful ruling! Allowing employees to surf the net increases their productivity; it doesn’t decrease it. Those people who surf the net to waste time would find other ways to waste it, so they can’t be used as a reason to curtail Internet access for the productive employees.

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Confess your secrets: i4giveu

From TechCrunch:

“i4giveu is an Israeli site that allows people to post confessions and ask for the community’s judgement. Confessions can be posted anonymously and are tagged for easy browsing. It just launched, and some of the ‘confessions’ seem a little canned or just plain dumb. And while this isn’t any kind of substitution for real therapy, the popularity of sites like PostSecret suggest that people really do like to tell their secrets on the Internet. Bonus feature: track comments to a confession via RSS.”

This is plain silly. Why would you confess your sins publicly, albeit somewhat anonymously, when you can confess to God in private? It just doesn’t make sense. Here is the link.

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Are you watching what your kids post?

This is a great article by Tim Donovan, written for CNET News, where he details the dangers inherent in posting things willy-nilly all over the Internet – particularly as it relates to children/teens. They will come back to haunt them years later, and may stop them from getting into a good school, or getting a good job. Here is the link.

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