Scammer’s With English Deficiency Syndrome

October 27th, 2005 Now Nigerian scammers are selling cellphones with lucrative prices, all major brands. You can call them in Lagos to verify their existence or whatever.

January 7th, 2008 You can safely delete any messages contains with: "correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met" This appears to be an often repeated phrase of nigerian scammers these days and is worth searching for in content of your emails for direct deletion (nuke).

April 17th, 2005 I received an email today from the infamous Nigerian scammers. This time it was a job offer for financial manager and it ends with a hilarious disclaimer.

July 13th, 2006 Phishing has been around for years. You get an email that looks like it arrived from financial institutions like PayPal or Bank of America.

October 27th, 2005 Nigerian 419 scammers anthem is titled - "I Go Chop Your Dollars". It aired few months ago as a CD penned by Osofia and is hugely popular in Lagos: "419 is just a game, you are the losers, we are the winners.

May 10th, 2006 Few tips on pronounciation for non-native English speakers. You should focus on aspirating key consonant sounds and stretching certain vowel sound.

July 13th, 2007 Unicode offers flipped versions of standard English characters. You can use a small javascript based utility to get flipped version of any word or phrase.

March 12th, 2005 A 'comprehensive' sweep of the net by 70 law enforcement organisations from 26 countries should help authorities combat phishers, spammers and scammers, says a leading consumer protection agency. It sounds too good to be true and effective.

January 24th, 2006 I have started working on Taragana's Automatic Machine Translation Plugin Version 2. Here is an update on the progress.

April 15th, 2005 Simple Thoughts Blog is now available in fourteen languages - English (original language), German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified). You can bookmark the link above for your preferred language or access Translate icons from the right navigation bar.

January 21st, 2008 Google had a well known proxy facility. You could use an url like http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=http://blog.taragana.com to access http://blog.taragana.com using Google as proxy.

March 13th, 2009 Do you like the style of a website you have visited right now and want to take some screen shots or a section of the page as yours. You can do so for numermous cases like the paypal transaction section, a certain plugin section and many more.

September 19th, 2006 "Hi there, I am a brithsh businessman and I contact you for a business proposal. I want to to be my co-worker.

June 10th, 2005 Update: This plugin has been superseded by Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro, which not only contains all the great features of this plugin but lot's more. All the defects and enhancement requests of this plugin has been done in the pro version, it offers significantly improved performance by caching, provides better translation for asian languages like Chinese & Japanese and more.

September 19th, 2007 Jan Dembowski uses Translator Plugin Pro for his WordPress blog, which provided him with a good traffic boost: "My web traffic went from 5,000 hits (900 visits) last week to 21,000 hits yesterday". He made a cool & informative sidebar element with Translator API to indicate to his viewers of translated pages (only) that the page they are viewing has been translated using online services like Google or Babelfish.