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Event: IAPTI 2013
IAPTI Conference 5 October 2013 And so it was that I was out of the house before I am usually even awake on a Saturday to hit the Hilton hotel for IAPTI’s first conference. Given the calibre of those involved, … Continue reading
Posted in business, translation issues
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Corrosion of confidentiality II
Towards the end of last year, I blogged about whether all the material we, as translators, are bound, explicitly or implicitly, to keep confidential really warranted the “confidential” tag. My context (!) was cloud services and GT, and whether using … Continue reading
Posted in business
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HMRC help themselves
I switched from self-employment to limited company this financial year (see this previous post). In so doing, I changed banks for business banking, switching from the world’s local money launderers to the home of the Libor liars (I’ve got a … Continue reading
Posted in business
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In the beginning…
I was recently led to reflect on my first steps in finding clients. In the case in point, I was led by the nose by an apparently notorious WUM/troll, but genuine cases arise often enough for me to wish I … Continue reading
Rage Against The Machine
Following on from my post two days ago (in which I wondered whether the scope of confidentiality could usefully be reduced in a translation context), the question is, given a great deal of the information translators receive is deemed confidential, … Continue reading
Corrosion of confidentiality
Another flurry of comment of late on the evils of MT, especially Google Translate (GT). Plus there were, I think, a couple of conferences on the subject of MT this autumn, judging from my Twitter feed. I found myself in … Continue reading
Posted in agencies, business, social media
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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
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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
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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