Wednesday, August 27, 2003


A picture named CoonHangingThumb.jpg A picture I took of yesterday's raccoon after rescuing it from our pool. The first thing it did was scramble up and over the neighbor's fence, then it just hung there for a while. Drying out, I guess.
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Translating Words. Word Reference has a language translation tool for Internet Explorer users. It is a context menu add-in that enables one to select a word on any page and ask for its translation into another language. They currently support English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.

Over the summer I took a conversational french class. Nothing big, just an opportunity to brush up on some of the french lessons I learned 25 years ago when in high school and then college. To augment my learning I've been trying to spend a little time each day reading Le Monde. I have been keeping a French/English dictionary at my desk to refer to. It gets used a lot while I read Le Monde. Having the Word Reference tool at my disposal will prove to be a whole lot faster. Bon chance.


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