OK I’m probably not the first to spot Facebook offering Bing Machine Translation, indeed a few of my friends said they’d noticed this a week or so again. And when I “Googled” this (other search engines are available) there were plenty of pages dedicated to predicting how useful or successful this feature will be. The “horse’s mouth” […]
Autumn Tour: No sleep till Kalafat!
2 continents, 9 countries, 20 cities, a good number of rivers and unfortunately 9 currencies! Avid readers of this blog (surely there are some? Mother?) may have noticed many of my recent posts were about events I’m attending, presenting, moderating, facilitating or other business-like jargon verbs and noun-verbs. This entry combines (and links to) all […]
Moscow October 2010 a quick visit to the Novodevichy Convent
A short 6 hours in between flights in Moscow, these pictures don’t show the gridlock that faced me when I stepped out of the train station and seemed to engulf Moscow everywhere I went. The weather was kind and Novodevichy Convent was beautiful but unfortunately closed.