Zend for the waiter

In the hour before Holland woke up I rewrote booze base access using Zend Framework – Ajax and other Greek words are apparently about to go out of fashion, and I’d been wondering idly for a while about using Zend and Google Spreadsheets for a simple CRM system for the local barber’s. Stuff: I don’t…

Not fucked translation

The Daily Mail and Tesco and various translation pundits just booked themselves into the nether stretches of the intestines of linguistic hell. From the Mule: I’m not hungry, thanks! Tesco brands Finest spaghetti bolognese ‘the balls of grandad’ Packaging features signs from an Italian market advertising ‘Le Palle de Nonno’ and ‘Coglioni di Mulo’ They…