June 1, 2002
SWET Newsletter, Number 97
Meetings and Announcements
The Future of Print Culture
Speaker: Alan Gleason, Dai-Nippon Printing
SWET Book Fair [announcement]
Web Site Updates [Webmaster and URL change]
What's ISO-SIG? (BH) [SWET education group: call for members]
Free Offer
SWET Publication: Wordcraft: English Writing, Editing, and Translation in Japan
Monthly Meeting Report
Hitting a Niche Market (SO)
Speaker: Caroline Pover, author and publisher of Being A Broad in Japan
[daily-life information for Western women living in Japan]
The Invention of Books: An Exhibition of Manuscripts and Incunabula in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana [announcement]
High-Tech SWET
Protecting Your Assets (and Those of Your Clients) (HA) [client data security on your computer]
Subheadings: Firewall? But my computer doesn't even get hot; Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you; Backups are for everyone; Some useful names and addresses; Notes
Book Review (HU)
Book: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
How We Got Here [SWET member personal history]
From Frequency Response and Dynamic Range to Malt and Hops: A Potted Personal History of E to J Translation (BH) [includes brewing terms]
Threads on SWET-L (HU, DS) [SWET Book Fair; libraries]
Over Their Shoulders [translation comparisons: Japanese literature]
Translators: Peter Durfee, Gwen Threatt, Fred Uleman
Discussion
Language across Space and Time
Are We All OK? (ES) [unfamiliar but legitimate variations in usage]
SWET Survey Results (HU) [SWET features and events: awareness, attendance, ratings]
A Day in the Life [one SWETer's workday]
Six Hours and Counting… (MMcC) [freelance translator's day]