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Work magnet...!?
There was more work today from the client that inundated me yesterday, but with a much shorter deadline: tomorrow. Fortunately, the new stuff didn't take too long to deal with this afternoon, so I translated the files and sent them back.
In the middle of all that, another client calls with a 6,000 source-word job, except that most of the source is, um, handwritten! Mazuma is mazuma, however, so I've got it on the plate as well.
I've gone over to maintaining a set of working files on a Seagate USB mini-drive (5 GB!), with the kicker being that in this new mode, I schedule backups of working files from the Seagate drive to a directory on my desktop, and of recent downloads from my desktop to a directory on the Seagate. The idea here is that if I have to go on the road with my laptop, I no longer have to worry about whether I've taken all my recent work files with me, and the key here is that the primary location for work files is now "outsourced" from my desktop.
In other news, a recent upgrade of my Office 2003 files caused Wordfast to burp and require a new license number to be input into a special field (the publisher uses one of those schemes where the software comes up with a number based on hardware/software configuration and after reporting that number to the publisher, you get a "license number" to enter into a dialog box). What bothers me is that, according to the publisher, the software figures out whether it's legitimately installed in a heuristic manner, which means, technically, that I might find out that I need a new license number immediately after upgrading something on my machine, or two weeks later.
Leaving aside the fact that support is provided for the product for three years after the purchase date (a strange setup: if you don't need support, you can use the software indefinitely; if, after the three years are up, you need support, you'll have to buy a new license) and that I'm 6 months from my three-year anniversary: I would well and truly hate to be somewhere in the middle of nowhere and have software crap out on me because some copy restriction scheme turns belly up. (One reason I'd hate it is because I've experienced it. Twice. At least. It sucks.)
On the other hand, despite the occasional bump and my grousing, I have to admit that Wordfast is - dollar-for-dollar - the best translation-related software purchase I've ever made. (Wow. How do you like that? A testimonial out of thin air!)
Time to go wind down. Tomorrow, I have to really start picking at the keys!
Cheers...
In the middle of all that, another client calls with a 6,000 source-word job, except that most of the source is, um, handwritten! Mazuma is mazuma, however, so I've got it on the plate as well.
I've gone over to maintaining a set of working files on a Seagate USB mini-drive (5 GB!), with the kicker being that in this new mode, I schedule backups of working files from the Seagate drive to a directory on my desktop, and of recent downloads from my desktop to a directory on the Seagate. The idea here is that if I have to go on the road with my laptop, I no longer have to worry about whether I've taken all my recent work files with me, and the key here is that the primary location for work files is now "outsourced" from my desktop.
In other news, a recent upgrade of my Office 2003 files caused Wordfast to burp and require a new license number to be input into a special field (the publisher uses one of those schemes where the software comes up with a number based on hardware/software configuration and after reporting that number to the publisher, you get a "license number" to enter into a dialog box). What bothers me is that, according to the publisher, the software figures out whether it's legitimately installed in a heuristic manner, which means, technically, that I might find out that I need a new license number immediately after upgrading something on my machine, or two weeks later.
Leaving aside the fact that support is provided for the product for three years after the purchase date (a strange setup: if you don't need support, you can use the software indefinitely; if, after the three years are up, you need support, you'll have to buy a new license) and that I'm 6 months from my three-year anniversary: I would well and truly hate to be somewhere in the middle of nowhere and have software crap out on me because some copy restriction scheme turns belly up. (One reason I'd hate it is because I've experienced it. Twice. At least. It sucks.)
On the other hand, despite the occasional bump and my grousing, I have to admit that Wordfast is - dollar-for-dollar - the best translation-related software purchase I've ever made. (Wow. How do you like that? A testimonial out of thin air!)
Time to go wind down. Tomorrow, I have to really start picking at the keys!
Cheers...