Disabled translations

translateBecause of the load it generates and the impracticality and quality, I disabled the translations. Even though it was nice to have it on here for a while, the quality of the machine translations is pretty bad, and it was making my blog look pretty stupid. And it mucked up my website stats. So it had to go. Sorry if you used it to read my blog. I guess you will have to learn English or Dutch to understand it.

The system worked like thus: I post a new blog, and it gets queued to be piped though Google Translate. When a translated page is not in the database yet, it redirected you to a translated copy from Google Translate. Having umpteen copies of a page in a database made things slow, besically  I had my blog several times in the database, once for every language I offered. Which is kinda unwieldly. And I saw hits from GT, but not on my site. Casually checking translations (especially English to Dutch) gave me something I wasn't really happy with. So alas. Well, if you want my page translated anyway, you can still type it into google's translation servers.

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