Now In English! "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges

For fans of Nabokov, Borges’ work is for you.

Why You Should Watch Baahubali: The Beginning

One of the most popular films of the year, S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Beginning, is a definite must see. Rajamouli mentions the comic retelling of Indian folktales, Amar Chitra Katha as a major influence – and it's very evident in the film itself. This immersion into Indian folk-tales and mythology creates an exciting epic tale.

WebDev Update: PHP Contact Form

For the past year or so I have been returning to an old hobby – web development. You may have remembered my earlier post about coding and second language learning. First I worked on upgrading my knowledge of CSS (now CSS3) and HTML (HTML5), with some exercises in practical JavaScript and jQuery. I've also been working quite a bit with Twitter Bootstrap. I also dabbled in Wordpress and MySQL.

For the past month I've decided to primarily focus on dressing up some PHP samples. I took the The Complete Web Developer’s Course by Rob Percival, as well as the Code Academy PHP course, but it is still my weakest link.

Short-Form: Jorge Luis Borges

“There are not, in the whole vast library, true identical books…everything is there…a version of each book in all languages, the interpolation of every book in all books.” – “Library of Babel” 75 

The Translator

The Argentinian writer, translator and essayist Jorge Luis Borges may be better known as the translator of Garcia Marquez’s One-Hundred Years of Solitude. His work consists of puzzles, falsifications, religion, mirrors, and libraries. And as amazing as his fiction is (I’ll get to that in another blog post), it’s also interesting to interpret his ideas about translation.