A post went around earlier about the new Google logo's file size, and it completely derailed my day, but in a fun way so I figured I'd share. First things first: I am not sure about the logo itself yet, though I'm leaning toward like. Twitter and Facebook have been hilarious … [Read more...]
Reboot!
Aaaaaaaaaand, we're back. The data work I've been doing for the last 2-3 years has opened me up to such a great community, I needed to restore a place to share my work and discoveries the way they do. I need a real-life test-bed for Tableau Public vizzes and those from other … [Read more...]
Inconsistent content & translation expenses
My presentation at LavaCon had a screen shot of an actual translation memory, and I wanted to flesh that out a bit more. A translation memory is simply a database of phrases that have already been translated, usually broken into segments by sentence. No matter what translation … [Read more...]
LavaCon 2012 – my slide deck
The first in a series of posts from LavaCon 2012 in Portland, here's my slide deck. Thanks to all that came to my presentation, and if you have any followup questions (or if you weren't there and want to know more about what this stuff means), please contact me at … [Read more...]
Boston Accessibility Conference 2012
I've been interested in accessibility (a11y in internet shorthand) work since the first time I had to translate a 508-compliant project to create a PDF form that worked in Spanish. I had no idea what I was doing, but did a lot of research while I waited for the translation to … [Read more...]