Challenge #4c

Just read about Google's translation feature. This is pretty exciting. Sure, the translation is likely to be rough, but it should be enough to get the gist of the meaning--and the number of languages supported so far is impressive. I will have to play with it and see if it transliterates as well as translates. Cyrillic, here I come:)

Challenge #4b

A bit behind on these challenges. This one was halfway done and it's been so long I basically had to do the whole thing over because I'd forgotten everything. But on to what I've learned from the Google search features: better, more authoritative hits, and nice shortcuts, particularly for comparing things like weather. Yesterday, for example, Rhinebeck, New York was actually 4 degrees warmer than Madrid, Spain. I searched for property to buy in rural Oklahoma (no, I'm not moving) and the local showtime for "Inglourious Basterds" (and yes, that's intentionally mispelled at the whim of Quentin Tarentino).