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How not to create an advertising campaign: Infojobs
January 18th
I think people on this website to find work should rethink their advertising strategy on its own site, since setting up your Google AdSense account does not seem to be fully configured.
Imagine that sell services related to the requested work, we have customers (companies) that are to display their ads, and have users looking for work among the offers that these companies to enter the site. So far, so good, but it is within the same page that include ads from other websites that also offer job opportunities to its users, ie, provide links from their own competition.
So, within the page can see Infojobs trabajo.com ads (for example), though it is an advertising campaign to position well done!
Being a plumber is a profession of risk
January 16th
It turns out that the jobs that are at Panxing Berguedà number 135 (January-February 2010) there is a publication of work with a spelling mistake. Again repeating an error that I can not understand, considering that almost all software can add a spell checker and words that never fails.
On page 35, a service company looking for a plumber , or plumber , but the ad looks like a job for a circus as a call for "lions".
I want a new definition in the Dictionary of Catalan , but now!
Lions: Pesona that taming lions.
I could not resist and I created this little composition to commemorate this great moment!
Misspelling in the advertising of the consultation for the independence of Catalonia
December 12th
It's one of those errors in advertising that go unnoticed, but considering the subject matter as it could have set more ... That's why I always try to spend a spell on all the designs I do, and still you can always escape a misspelling. But that happens in an advertisement for Catalonia with an error like this ...
If you do not have any automatic program checker, we can use the tool at our disposal that puts people Softcatalà the Spell Catalan , where we can always obtain satisfactory results;
Indeed, in a review of a previous news I received a web address that can be very useful for words that do not know if these are well in Catalan or not;
The mystery of the BIOS without memory
October 24th
Motherboard with BIOS stack
On many occasions we have seen articles and reviews of the errors committed by people in any aspect of computing. Since the typical EPIC FAIL in place a floppy 3 1 / 2 in the DVD recorder to the complicated task of surfing the Internet without turning on your DSL router.
But the case before us today is different. Do not talk about a Muggle started in the exciting world of computers, but the union of respected technical services. Although it seems lie, people who work in the branch of computer science are also people, and as such can make mistakes and we make mistakes.
We put ourselves in a situation: The client has a desktop PC saying that he holds the hour and you get a message with white letters on a black background when you start the PC. The message that appears is similar to this;
CMOS checksum error - default loaded
The technician who worked for years ripping computers is the problem in seconds. Obviously this is a bug in the BIOS battery, which has been exhausted, with a simple change to another and re-configuring the BIOS all the problems disappear. It changes the stack is checked, everything seems to work correctly and the customer gets to your computer.
A few days back and it says the customer to technical error that was before he repeats, some messages appear when starting the computer, does not maintain the schedule and other things ... The technician checks the BIOS setup, the operating system, everything seems fine, but if you disconnect your PC problems reappear. Something very strange, considering that he moved to a new stack, so that should not be given these errors. It made several tests, updated the BIOS, it resets the CMOS, but the problem persists. After spending a while there, we decided to check the connection of the stack is correct and everything appears normal, the CR2032 battery type and brand KTS is well placed. Finally, a divine apparition appears in front of the coach and gives the answer to the problem. What was the problem?
TRACK: The brand of battery button is Sony have in store!
What really happened? Well, the technician removed the old battery KTS, opened the little box on the new Sony battery and inadvertently re-place the old battery instead of the new KTS.
Without a good translator is not paradise
October 19th
No Wine No paradise
In the edition of Sunday 18 October 2009 there is a translation error, specifically corresponds to page 36, in the section of the TV programming of Tele 5.
A synopsis of the chapter of the series "Without tits there's no paradise," we can see how they changed the name of the protagonist Tasting (Catherine), for tasting, a translation would be correct if we speak of a "wine tasting" and not the name of a person. And not only translate a proper name, but leave a sentence consistent with zero as the "... although the former Presidio know how bad the deal was in prison will not give it so easily. "
I believe that translators should try to avoid "automatic", at least to review the final results obtained trying to read the sentences.
I leave you with the original text of the page "official" series and the result that we get from Google translator ;
Tasting sufre the blackmail and harassment of the uses and Daniela La Roca for protegerse of it, although the former Presidio knows how bad the treatment in jail is not going to abandon it so easily.
Whilst Avanza in your relationship with Catherine, the police descubre Data revealing around the murder of his Father and organizes for a raid to Get more information about the criminal who ends up with him.
Taste suffered harassment and blackmail of Daniela and uses the rock to protect themselves from it, but know that the former Presidio that was so badly treated in prison is not going to relinquish it so easily. While advancing in his relationship with Catherine, the police discovered revealing details about the murder of his father and organizes a raid for more information about the crime that ended with him.
Almost the most hits on Google machine translator or translator Softcatalà Regió7 that the version of ...
Trial 5 years!
October 12th
trial of 5 years!
Gossiping and doing a little shopping in my suppliers I saw this offer. Since we would like to purchase our laptop gives us a trial version of Microsoft Office and antivirus with a duration of 5 years (60 months). What a bargain!
Wednesday, September 17, 2009?
September 19th
Wednesday 16 or Thursday 17?
One of those inexplicable errors, which we resolved after more than 5 minutes looking for the "newspaper today" on Wednesday did not (a Thursday like any other) ... I thought the date on the cover of a newspaper / magazine introduced automatically but manual that seems to be enough.
At first glance it may cost a bit to see where the error, but just take a look at any calendar to see that on 17 September 2009 does not fall on a Wednesday, but Thursday.
