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	<title>In-House Translators - A Dying Breed</title>
	<link>http://www.aldridge.de</link>
	<description>Susanne Aldridge III</description>
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		<title>Normal, Light, Minimum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am translating some device strings, and sometimes you run into strings that just seem so wrong. Right now, I am working on a device that triggers a measurement when a user presses down on the measurement head. The user can select how much pressure has to be put on the device, and the options [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2010/07/normal-light-minimum/</link>
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		<title>Check spelling in HTML files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to check the spelling on an HTML page in your browser window? Thanks to this handy-dandy bookmarklet, this is now possible.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2010/06/check-spelling-in-html-files/</link>
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		<title>Cool Tool - ExamDiff Pro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I am still alive but barely and I believe my brain is quite worn out. We had released several new products and launched a separate website specifically for the photo market (http://www.xritephoto.com).
I also designed a webpage (http://www.mm-translations.com), I turned 40, we took a few short trips during the summer and we just had nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/09/cool-tool-examdiff-pro/</link>
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		<title>Context please!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am just going through my old list email. Since I filter them to different directories it doesn&#8217;t bother my inbox I don&#8217;t care much if they accumulate. They never have attachments, so even a few thousand emails don&#8217;t amount to any significant file size.
One of my pet peeves are translation questions without context. Actually, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/07/context-please/</link>
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		<title>Google OS or My Life with Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, what a move. Seems like Google is really serious about taking on the IT world - not that there was any doubt about it after the last few years.
It started out with the search engine, and I remember I was using Dogpile as a search engine back then. Dogpile queried several search engines back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/07/google-os-or-my-life-with-google/</link>
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		<title>Best week ever&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, everything seems to just fall into place. This was one of those weeks where it seemed like everything was just working out for me! By Friday noon I was so giddy I could hardly sit still. This is what happened&#8230;
Monday:

I started my week with a really nice email from the product manager for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/06/best-week-ever/</link>
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		<title>Fun with character encodings, Greek ANSI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I got the Java encodings half way under control, I encountered &#8220;Fun with character encodings&#8221; again. This time, it&#8217;s a Greek tragedy.
A couple of days ago I received a small text file with English strings. The strings are messages for a service pack and they are needed to be translated in Greek. Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/06/fun-with-character-encodings-greek-ansi/</link>
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		<title>OMG - It&#8217;s full of mistakes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we just had one of our applications translated into Greek. It is a very big application for a total of 13,000 words just strings. Initially, we had about a month so time was not a big issue and the translation got started on May 8th. Of course, these things change and all of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/06/omg-its-full-of-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>I am wearing jeans!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to my employer, and I really mean it. I believe they have found the one way to boost morale, that doesn&#8217;t cost a thing! We have &#8220;Casual Everyday&#8221; from now until Labor Day and we are allowed to wear jeans.
I never really understood the US dress code for employees. It was a bummer from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/06/i-am-wearing-jeans/</link>
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		<title>Stop the cross selling/up selling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am honestly so fed up with this. Everywhere I go, people are trying to cross-sell me stuff I don&#8217;t want or up-sell some more expensive stuff. My last visit to the mall&#8230;
I went to Finish Line to buy a pair of sneakers and the sales kid is relentlessly trying to up sell and cross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/05/stop-the-cross-sellingup-selling/</link>
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