Translation, technology and language

Update for 2022 and office hours

What I'm up to in 2022 - Q1 and beyond

How much does a double storey house extension cost?

A timeline and cost breakdown of our 40 week, two-storey house extension for under £100k

How to Test Language Proficiency Level Online

I tested my Swedish and German CEFR levels online in a morning, and how you can do the same for French, Italian, Spanish, German or English

Easily migrating existing VM from Virtualbox to KVM

How to migrate from Vbox to KVM smoothly and safely in under an hour

The Power and Limits of Meditation

How much meditation is enough? What are the health benefits?

Automating Meditation With Inverted Pomodoros

Automated focus through systematic rest

Second Brain Building Method

Backup and expand your brain to cross-link your plans and ideas

Engineering Technical French Translation

Your technical documentation can read natively in English after translation from French by a 15+ year professional, member of the Institute of Linguists

Document Translation from French to English (professional quality)

Translating documents from French to English is quick and simple, but always benefits from a thorough brief and understanding of audience, be it technical, general or legal

The garden home office DIY self-build guided tour

Building notes from a DIY, insulated, WFH garden home office build done on a budget (£3k) - all costs, plans and cutting lists available

75+ of the best translation, language and linguistics blogs to follow

75 top translator, linguist and translation company blogs in the world, helping you stay on top of industry news and progress

Hire a French translater, translatir or tranlator with an eye for detail

Did your search for a French translator have a typo? It's my job to notice every detail of a text and fix it for you. Find out how I do it...

How to find and hire a translator

A guide to finding and hiring freelance translators for your project. How to review translators for the best results for your translation project!

How to make your own Squawk service for news and alerts

Using Twitter, Tweetdeck, espeak and bashscript, set up your own squawk service

Share your desktop from OBS as a webcam in Hangouts, Skype, Zoom etc. for educational and social purposes

Create a loopback device that displays your desktop as the webcam output for Linux or Windows - for educational and social purposes!

French translation: do you need a French or English translator?

Does your translator need to be French or English, and native in which language?

How long does a translation take?

Not sure how long to budget for a translation? Read on to find out more.

How much does a translation cost?

What can you expect to pay for a translation? Read on to find out.

Why you shouldn't trade crypto (yet)

The risks and pitfalls of trading crypto

Trading momentum in Forex

A few thoughts on why I've focused more on momentum trading this year.

A high growth personal finance plan

Setting out a high-growth savings and investment plan for retirement

Twitter bot status: online

Site relaunch

...with a new service offer to boot

2018 Q2 update

Sci-fi + translation? Give me a chance, Arrival!

A simple solution for translation spam

Mutt with multiple accounts, mbsync, notmuch, GPG and sub-minute updates

On encryption for translators

Radio ga-ga - an introduction to the world of amateur radio

Translation FAQ

Productivity in plaintext

From all-day comfort to standing, walking and perching - an evolving workspace

Why a Psion in 2015?

Going the full Linux

Review of the Business Guide for Translators, by Marta Stelmaszak

Webinar slides - Tackling Translation Sales and Business Optimisation

Book review: Marketing Cookbook for Translators by Tess Whitty

Why my book can be read for free

The translation sales handbook

Site update details

The translation sales handbook

How to scale your freelance business

What do you do with a spammer's personal details?

How to take down a translation industry spammer

How to run multiple Wordpress sites on a single low-end VPS with Nginx

4 Wordpress sites, 1 server - great performance on Digital Ocean using Nginx and caching

Using RSS to follow translation blogs and news

Top US tech companies call for surveillance reform

Old English vs modern Swedish via Beowulf and Heaney

Email security for translators

Building a better IT infrastructure for a more secure translation business

The webinar debrief: a blow by blow account of a virtual presentation

Multilingual SEO for translators and translation

Translation sales book now officially released

Why use MemoQ?

Online Accounting for Freelancers and Small Businesses

Netbooks for translators

How the semantic web will affect translation

One month of digital diary

Book review: Write to Sell (Andy Maslen)

How to: CAT tool translation on mobile phone

Warner US approval for Scooby-Doo texts

Accumulated accounting tips for translators and freelancers

Voice recognition for translation - three myths, three facts

Twitter, translation, #xl8, success

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