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In the Summertime
Wonder if any of you literally tens of readers had thought “Ah, another blog that has petered out…”? Truth is, I only have one pair of hands, and apart from the very occasional flurry on Twitter, my spare typing (and … Continue reading
Posted in business
10 Comments
… But I won’t do that
Now, I know everyone is entitled to decide what they will and won’t do, professionally as elsewhere, but I was, I admit, somewhat taken aback by some of the comments on a recent poll on a well-known website on the … Continue reading
Posted in currency conversion, translation issues
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Start Me (Company) Up
Following my previous post, I’ve had a couple of emails from people thinking of switching from self-employment to limited company status, so I thought I’d whizz over the info I harvested when making the decision, in case it proved useful, … Continue reading
Posted in business
16 Comments
The Unbearable Incompetence of HSBC
I have recently taken the plunge, as it were, and decided to convert from self-employment to a limited company, operating as of yesterday, in fact. Let me share with you my experiences as a customer of Britain’s much vaunted financial … Continue reading
Posted in business
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… And Justice For All
Quite a distracting week for those following the MoJ / ALS saga (I’m just going to assume you know what that is!). It changes the shape of this post, initially drafted several days ago. I first heard about the matter … Continue reading
Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
This post is about a pleasant enough video that was probably at the peak of its popularity a couple of years ago. It’s called the Vendor Client Relationship, featuring with a man in a restaurant, another man in a DVD … Continue reading
Posted in business
4 Comments
Article: The price is (already) right
The following is a summary to a long article here, from June 2009, when there seemed to be a fair amount of gloom around. It seemed to be inspired at least in part by a drip, drip, drip of news … Continue reading
Posted in business, My articles
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My goat’s been got again
A new, yet also old, outrage has come to my attention of late. It’s new, inasmuch as the penny only really dropped yesterday that the delightful, relatively newly-created private-sector quasi-monopoly on court-related interpreting in the form of Applied Language Solutions’ … Continue reading
Posted in agencies, business
3 Comments
Article: Pros and cons of free tests
(This was originally an article I posted in my Articles section in April 2009. I recently got involved in another discussion about tests and I haven’t posted since my holiday – yes, thanks, it was splendid – so here it … Continue reading
Posted in agencies, business, My articles
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Review pricing reviewed
Review here meaning the process of checking someone’s translation. Were I Samuel Johnson, I might be minded to define a reviewer as “an ideally, but regrettably not always, harmless drudge, that busies himself in comparing with the original, and detailing … Continue reading
Posted in business
5 Comments