I was extremely proud of the little Google translate buttons below my blog. Previous experience had told me they offered only an erratic version of what was on the page, but in an effort to put them to the test I got a friend to press the button. Take my previous post on News Sponsorship:

Avid blog readers will recall mention of an NBC experiment to allow longer news pieces on their nightly newscast as part of a sponsorship deal with Philips. Viewer responses can be found right here.

This is how my chum reckons it comes out in Arabic:

News of Sponsorship [looking good so far]

Eager for alcohol [ah] remember on a broadcast experience allow prepare news about a piece [losing you] I published come as part of a sponsorship agreement with Philips [spooky how the sponsor stuff comes out ok!], replies readers can be seen here.

Not quite there yet. But the buttons look pretty, and they mean well.