An important lesson in a very brief post. There’s a story in the Toronto Sun this morning about how Hockey Canada’s official French web site is full of translation errors. The blame is being placed on the fact that the site was sub-contracted out. Reading between the lines, and having been down the French translation road a few times myself, I know that there’s a temptation to use software to do the translation or to employ a non-native speaker. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Dixie Chicken
“Tell me a story” is a phrase you hear a lot as a parent. When the kids don’t want to go right to bed, they’ll use it to stall. When they are feeling anxious, they’ll use it to gain some calming certainty. Stories predate written history and telling them is an art form. We all know a few great jokes (many of which aren’t for this space in my case…). Told well, those can be great stories. When you set a great story to music, you have a great song. Continue reading
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Stats
It’s a good time of year if you like football. The big bowl games and end of the NFL season provide hours of collision-based fun as well as lots of fodder for the numbers junkies who call sports talk radio every day. I guess that’s not limited to football since it’s hot stove season in baseball too. With the Hall of Fame ballots going out, statistics are thrown around like beads at Mardi Gras. There’s nothing wrong with all these numbers as we discuss sports, just as there isn’t when talking about business. But they’re far from the entire story and that’s where people get off the track. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 