After a hiatus of several long months — and thanks to friends and colleagues both virtual and real for the support — I find myself more or less ready to resume my hobby of posting items of interest in translation for Anglophone and Lusophone readers.
The latter I translate and post to O Bicho Preguiça, whose mascot is the three toed sloth, symbolic of my slow but steady path to fluency in a final flor de Láscio.
Topics range over straight international business and finance, together with an abiding interest in foreign policy and the New Media, and an ongoing comparative survey of the journalism profession around the world.
Before diving back into business — I am open to new paid translation projects, by the way — I have had a fair amount of work restoring the good old Debian box after it crashed and died on me.
A local tech support shop – named after a stereotypical evil corporation with features in common with the Globo empire, Organizações Tabajara — was not really worth the money.
I was still obliged to mess around in Grub for most of a day, in order to retrieve-reset the root password, the cause of the original catastrophic loss of data and function. I had also expected the machine to return after having been thoroughly dusted. My wife thinks I am an overly cranky customer in cases like this.
Tasks at hand:
- Sort through 6,000 e-mails
- Reinstall social network analysis software
- Update the Open Source Bloomberg Box …
… or, more plainly, my preferred RSS stream of RSS streams, suitably engineered for noise reduction and cross-referenced to keywords that serve as categories for my notes, as follow
- Accounting
- Advertising
- Agribusiness
- Bioenergy
- Black Markets
- Books
- Brazil
- Business
- Center-West
- Civil Aviation
- Colombia
- Competition
- Construction
- Consulting
- Consumer Affairs
- Democracy
- Energy
- Electricity
- Europe
- Spain
- FDI
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Asset-Backed Finance
- Banking and Brokerage
- Consumer Loans and Credit
- Derivatives
- Factoring
- Funds
- Home Finance
- Ratings
- Food Service
- Beverages
- Foods
- Foreign Trade
- Gaucholand (South)
- Globalization
- Government Affairs
- Monetary Policy
- Government Services
- Information Technology
- Consumer Electronics
- Government
- Infrastructure
- Airports
- Ports
- Sanitation
- Water & Power
- Investment Banking
- Journalism
- Legal Affairs
- Intellectual Property
- Life in Sambodia
- M&A
- Maritime
- Media
- Entertainment
- Infotainment
- Public Relations & Advertising
- Publishing
- mexico
- military
- Mining & Minerals
- Nationalization
- North
- Northeast
- Off-Topic
- Open Sources
- Organized Crime
- Politics
- PR & Advertising
- Privatization
- Public Policy
- Income Redistribution
- Labor Relations
- Public Safety
- Public Works
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Real Estate
- Regulation
- Antitrust
- Conflicts
- Disclosure
- Money Laundering
- Retail
- Southeast
- Technology
- Outsourcing
- Software
- Support Services
- Telcommunications
- Telecom
- Convergence
- Tourism
- Transport & Logistics
- Commercial Aviation
- Highways
Filed under: Black Markets, Business, Journalism, Life in Sambodia
