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Today I got two mails from StartSSL that my certificates (valid for one year) are about to expire. So I went through the process of obtaining new ones, and just now I finished installing them (one on my webserver for https://patrick-nagel.net and one on my mailserver (mail.patrick-nagel.net)). I think it took me half a week to figure everything out the first time (one year ago), but this time it went quite smoothly, within an hour or so.
Thanks to StartCom for that service! 🙂
WordPress 2.2 came into portage today, so I updated. The new widgets function tells me that my theme is not widget aware… perhaps I should find a new one.
Some days ago I discovered Google Translate, Google’s automatic translation service. I’m aware that it’s not exactly new, and for example babelfish has been there for years, supplying us with extremely bad and most of the times quite amusing translation of websites – but the news is: Google Translate knows Chinese! I have been using Worldlingo for that for a long time, but this website is often very slow and full of advertisement. I can’t judge which translation engine is better though.
Oh, and the best thing: Google Translate can be integrated into your browser 🙂 Here is how:
For Konqueror, go to Settings / Configure Konqueror… / Web Shortcuts and press the New… button. Now you can specify a name for this web shortcut, for example “Google Translate english/chinese” (this is the name as it shows up in the web shortcuts list). Then, paste the following into the URL field:
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=\{@}&langpair=en|zh-CN
Finally, specify the web shortcut itself, for example “ench”. From now on, you can just type “ench some english text” into your URL entry field, and the translation will be made. If you have a closer look at the URL I specified above, I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out how to add a web shortcut for chinese/english or any other language that Google Translate supports 🙂
For Firefox, download the appropriate search plugins from mycroft.mozdev.org and use the search field next to the URL field.
On a side note: My website is now available in eight (!) languages. Five thanks to Google Translate 😉
P.S.: . o O ( Hmm… that URL is long and doesn’t get wrapped. So now it overlaps the menu on the right. Man that looks ugly. I should tweak this theme a bit, I guess… Nah, too lazy. )