Like everyone else I am increasingly more and more in awe of Google‘s technology portfolio. I remember trying Babelfish a few years back and though it did present a translation of what I pasted in the translate box it had limited implications – like when you need to ask “how do you say…?” in this or that language. But I had a need to translate a website from German to English and remembered Google’s translate feature. It does much more than Babelfish’s paste a word/phrase -> translate thing. I pasted the URL of the webpage and clicked the link on […]

Because this is a presidential election year, I am hearing so much of the usual rhetoric about why I should vote for this guy over that one. Something I not only expected to be bombarded with but I knew would be a major topic of discussion would be the economy. Of course the economy is not where it should be – and because President Barack Obama said back before the start of his presidency that if he couldn’t get things changed in four years no one in Washington would be there next election cycle. Well things have not changed so […]

The drive it from Saturday night was pretty decent. Unfortunately, the Las Vegas night did not do the usual temperature drop. This night 100-degrees persisted well into the 11pm hour. Only rarely did the warm air blow but even then it was only beareable. Prolonged exposure to these temperatures is dangerous so it won’t be something I do again for quite a while – probably in the fall. So back to the air conditioned cinema I go for the next movie. Double feature you will be missed… 🙂