Friday, April 10, 2009

PicasaWeb adds automatic translation of comments

While uploading photos to PicasaWeb this morning, I was surprised when non-English comments were automatically translated to English. The results are rather entertaining, yet still demonstrating the usefulness of machine translation to non-speakers of the source language: (admit it O blog reader! Yes, you, 'cause I know there's no one else who reads this blog!)

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S.Shen
Apr 9, 2009 12:10 PM
孩子越来越像爸爸了。妈妈别生气哈~
Children more and more like a father. Do not be angry mother ha ~
Lian Tze
Apr 10, 2009 11:17 AM
呵呵,没生气啦,早就认了⋯⋯还在肚子里作超音波扫描时就已是爸爸的翻拍版了
Oh, you did not angry, identified long ago are still ⋯ ⋯ stomach for ultrasound scan is the father had been a remake version of the



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S.Shen
Apr 9, 2009 12:09 PM
好可爱
Good lovely
Lian Tze
Apr 10, 2009 11:11 AM
可爱得爆⋯⋯不是爆灯,是我们的脑也快爆了。;-)
Too cute not burst burst ⋯ ⋯ lights, is our brain will soon burst. ;-)

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Periodic Table of Typography

 
Compiled by Cam. Nice one to hang on a cubicle wall. Bound to confuse people, or not: perhaps they'll just assume that I'm now dabbling in Chemistry and not some funny nutty typography and leave me alone.