I’ve just added a clever widget to my sidebar that enables readers to “translate” Davos Newbies into a variety of languages, courtesy of Google’s automated translation algorithms (the widget was devised by Trevor Creech). For the languages I know reasonably well, Italian and French, it does a slightly comical but minimally serviceable job. I don’t expect there will be enormous demand for the service, at least on Davos Newbies, but it’s enjoyable to explore the still-mythical kingdom of machine translation.