20-Mar-2006

Translations

TrickyDicky in Zenit Translations publishes the following articles:

• Fallas Week, a translation of Semana Fallera published in valenciablog.com on 13-March-2006. The Fallas are the fantastic festival of statues, fireworks and fire that are held in the Valencia region every year from 15th to 19th March.

• The Doubting Professor, a translation of El profesor incrédulo by José Francisco Pérez Cruz published in Yo Escribo. This is a short story of ghostly happenings that takes place in modern Galicia.

• Some errors in The Economist, a translation of Algunos errores de The Economist by Ricardo Galli published on 17-Mar-2006. Ricardo Galli wrote a short review of an article on free and open source software published in The Economist and highlights some common misconceptions on this subject.

The information society

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to the Information Society 2005, an annual report compiled by Telefonica on the use of information in the Hispanic world. There is a wide variety of information in a number of formats, including an executive summary in English.

Do you know about character encodings

Patxi Echarte in EsLoMas.com posts a link to Do you know your character encodings? an article that explains the subject in some detail.

Java Expo 06

Carlos Rovira in carlosrovira.com posts a link to Java Expo 06, the conference on Java that is being held in Madrid from 21-23 March.