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Sunday, October 12, 2008

The answer

As stock market world wide are plummeting, I am quite sure my readers could not help it but ask themselves what the answer to the riddle was.

Well, without further ado, the answer is Google Translate service, which recently launched hebrew support. The results are extremely poor, as the original text meant "A team of entrepreneurs that are simply awesome". Unfortunately - mix-up of literal translation of a phrase that means awesome with very wrong ordering of words has created that anomality.

Will Google Translate improve over time? I'll keep my eye open. As for now, I won't recommand it for trying to read Hebrew sites, not even to get a clue.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Weekly riddle for the children

What generated the following phrase "entrepreneurs rope team on time"?

One of our solvers will win a rope that is rope on time by itself.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Alternate life

I have recently seen the younoodle service which predicts the value of my startup in three years.

Having nothing much better to do at that point (maybe besides watching the Olympic games) I have quickly ran through the process and got the following:
What can I say? Probably there's nothing more for me to do, just wait for three years and collect the cash...