Update 31 Aug, 17:44: it seems I had attempted to try a Swahili-English translation by mistake. I didn’t suspect I was that much off since it almost translated whole sentences like one would expect.

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter has a good article (in Swedish) on opinion polling. For an online translation, try Bing Translator or Google Translate. ¹

¹ Note that Bing is a bit slow (at least in this case) and requires JavaScript support in order to provide the translation step by step in your browser. Note that Bing Translator has a side-by-side view that may be useful to match Swedish original sentences with their respective English translations in a more practical manner. Other than that, it outputs reasonably comprehensible text, although there are some particular oddities (e.g. DN.se is replaced with F1racing.NET (eh…?). I vaguely recall a third alternative to use instead of Google’s or Bing’s, but I can’t find it right now.

If you click on the image: yes, it’s still a relatively “small” amount of complaints¹, and no I haven’t read them, and maybe it’s just me, but I find this picture just a little ironic for some reason or other. Also, if you must know, I was just trying to determine the searchability of one of my own pages.

¹ For the purposes of this post, let’s ignore the merits of the law to begin with.

The Internet went down when the tablet was launched

[...] It turned out to be a tablet computer – and perhaps an Internet killer. In any case those who were there in San Francisco, only specially invited guests saw the launch live, had problems reaching the Internet to talk about what they saw. [...]

The corresponding Swedish text:

Internet gick ner när plattan lanserades

[...] Det visade sig vara en läsplatta – och kanske en internetdödare.
De som fanns på plats i San Francisco, bara speciellt inbjudna såg lanseringen live, hade i alla fall problem att komma ut på internet för att berätta om vad de såg. [...]

Regardless of interpretation I have trouble seeing how this article could reflect well on the newspaper.

Note to fellow time wasters: if (for whatever reason) you want to compile from source, you need to compile PDCurses 3.4 first. Then copy it to / put a link in the source directory.

Last week I came home after spending 10 days in the United Arab Emirates. Here is a clickable selection (pictures linked to are 30% the size of the originals) of my impressions.

Making friends at the Dubai Aquarium Tunnel at Dubai Mall.

A piece of Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.

Cranes are a mandatory part of the skyline.

Very strict regulations here.

The Grand Mosque.

This fellow seems to handle the climate better than me.

Back to Dubai and Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building at 828 818 meters.

No comment.

Pictures from Atlantis and The Lost Chambers in The Palm, Dubai:

Thumbnails and respective linked images available under CC by-sa 3.0.

Update 23 April: added link to second OSNews article.