The Guardian content mill has been pointed at Spain this week, Julian Glover was pointed at immigration in Olot, and he (or perhaps an El País bod on the ground) found that “Olot’s striking diversity is a mark of Spain’s tolerence [sic] of migrants“, and that Olot is, like, better than Vic and Perpignan. Massive…
Since someone asked, here’s what I can remember. Walking time probably 2.5 hours. Your money back if you die of hunger or are eaten by wolves. Head to Roquetes more or less via Via Julia metro (couple of excellent bars in the pedestrian street le…
A guy winding a handle isn’t much to look at, so it was cool to find this site dedicated to Yefim Ladizhinsky (1911-82), whose work I really like, and who shows Odessa organ-grinders working with other performers. Re Spectacle (organist bottom left) he writes: A street-organ is a musical chest the size of a small…
Latest Google ruse to get you to abandon the old, superior Docs editor: “Would you like to see this document in the latest version of the editor?” pops up every time you open a document. Q: how do you turn off the helpful hint? Continue down that path and you lose all your freuking revision…
Doing the rounds, and sent this way by Carlos Ferrero Martín. Comments on the post say the Spanish TV interpreter is working from the English interpreter rather than from the Fukushima spokesman’s Japanese, and he appears, shall we say, less than impressed by the quality of information on offer and forgets the microphone is on:…
A minor offence, this sherry puff: Intense mahogany colour, clean-vibrant. Notes of Word ans hazelnuts. Dry yet rich. A lovely long nutty taste. The website translation is also poor – something of a come-down for the family which produced Álvaro Domecq y Díez (Wikipedia surprisingly omits his war service), for whom getting things right, whatever…
The Catalan regional Audit Office reports that TV3, the Catalan state broadcaster, has been awarding contracts without complying with ‘the principles of openness, competition, transparency, confidentiality, equality and non-discrimination’, and without ensuring their allocation ‘to the most economically advantageous tender.’ I never expected to blog a case of translators being overpaid, but that will have…
