Today I received an email from our QA engineer. Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 (WordPress plugin to automatically translate your blog to 10 or more languages) is translating even WordPress admin pages correctly. Is this a bug or a feature? Let's consider the use cases. A common use case would be registered users choosing to view the blog in their language of choice. In such case it is conceivable that they would also love to see that the admin pages (available to them) are also translated similarly.

I stayed for two days in Holiday Inn, Carlsbad, CA. Overall my experience has been quite negative. They have become pretty cheap in services and quality. For 130 $ per night, it is simply not worth it, maybe even 50$ is too much.

In Simple Thoughts blog and many other blogs worldwide there is a feature to email an article you liked (or hated) to your friends. Recently I noticed that this feature is being abused to send SPAM. How does it work? When you email any article to anyone, you are offered a choice to write your own comments accompanying the article. This is being used by spammers to send their spam missive. The damaging part is that your mail server is being used to commit their nasty deed. If anyone suffers from this it would be you, the innocent blogger and the recipients of the spams. A simple solution to this would be to use CAPTCHA. However for now I have removed the code which posts your accompanying message. So at least no spam can be sent. The email will still go with the article details. I need to think more about a better solution to this problem. Any ideas are welcome.