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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>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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		<title>Survivor&#8217;s remorse - lay-off aftermath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, yet another round of lay-offs has passed. Last week, I lost several of my nice benefits - tuition reimbursement being the one that would hurt the most and we got a pay cut. This was actually the aftermath of the &#8220;restructuring&#8221; earlier this year. Back then, they said that they may have to &#8220;do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/05/survivors-remorse-lay-off-aftermath/</link>
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		<title>Email Delays (Yahoogroups et al.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a member of a Yahoogroup, you are probably aware of the incredible delays that can happen between the time the email was sent and the time it was received. We are all so spoiled and anything less than instantaneously is almost unacceptable. With Yahoogroups, it sometimes is really bad. I have seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aldridge.de/2009/04/email-delays-yahoogroups-et-al/</link>
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