Lottery buzz

This is where I stopped posting to the translation blog and started a teaser blog for the World Lottery Association, who loved it... and then fired me.

Acrobat document review just got easier

Anyone with the free Acrobat 7.0 Reader can add comments to pdf documents created with Acrobat 7.0 Professional. Replace text, correct typos, add notes, etc. and send it back! There's even a collaborative review function (a bit harder to set up) where several people can add comments to the same document... Agencies take note - it's time for a (paid) upgrade!

Will our world ever be safe?

Thales publishes a 32-page magazine twice a year for customers, industrial and commercial partners, the financial community, opinion formers, academics and the scientific community. "It's a magazine of real stature that communicates where technology and innovation is driving the business world," says Caspian, the London-based publishing company that produces it in English . And it's translated into French by us.

Scholarly searches

Also lurking behind the Google home page is Google Scholar, another chance to avoid the toxic wasteland by limiting searches to scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

Read them the Patriot Act

Now available in pdf format online, the World Lottery Association's quarterly journal offers an inside view of the state lottery industry and how it is "rallying its forces around the world to rise to global challenges", i.e., protect state gaming monopolies from free market forces. As the US prepares its stand-off with offshore casinos at the WTO, the Patriot Act could provide a compelling argument for protection...