Some things are just too weird
Now, I wouldn't want you to think that I'd been googling my own name or anything. But I did, by a random process of meanderings, come across this really rather strange site:
http://healthingerman.blogspot.com/2007/10/halfhead-selbstmord-ist-schmerzhaft.html
As far as I can work out, it's a site dedicated to the selling of cheap prescription drugs, although I'm not sure who the intended audience is. What drew it to my attention was a quick look at Technorati to see who was mentioning this blog in their postings. This one appears to be a German translation of one of Mr Stuart's earlier meanderings in which he very kindly mentioned me. Whoever has gone to the trouble of translating it has also kept all the links. Most of the other posts seem to be straight ads, so I can't quite work out why this page has been translated. Weird.
For extra fun, try getting babelfish to translate the page.
I think it makes more sense than the first time around.
http://healthingerman.blogspot.com/2007/10/halfhead-selbstmord-ist-schmerzhaft.html
As far as I can work out, it's a site dedicated to the selling of cheap prescription drugs, although I'm not sure who the intended audience is. What drew it to my attention was a quick look at Technorati to see who was mentioning this blog in their postings. This one appears to be a German translation of one of Mr Stuart's earlier meanderings in which he very kindly mentioned me. Whoever has gone to the trouble of translating it has also kept all the links. Most of the other posts seem to be straight ads, so I can't quite work out why this page has been translated. Weird.
For extra fun, try getting babelfish to translate the page.
I tried to kill me the weekend. Not coincidentally either - this was leaving not a sort of ' the gas on then attempt, the flaming squirrels jongliert ' thing, was intentional it.
I think it makes more sense than the first time around.
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I've come across something like that before. I suppose it's a trick to advertise some muck: take a blogpost and run it through a translator, disguise it as service for the non-English speaking reader, and voilà , someone will click on your site. I wonder why it's obviously only one post here; the other case 'translated' most of the blog.
I hadn't realised the German was a Babelfish product, though I guess that makes sense. My conversational German gets me about as far as ordering a beer;}#
I just know that some of my Spanish classmates used it for our writing assignments. The wimps.