Crystal Pineapple Awards 2008 - Vote for DineSXM

DineSXM is one of the final three nominees for a Crystal Pineapple Award, in the "Outstanding Community Tourism" category. The award is an annual celebration of people and organizations that are active in Hospitality and Tourism on the island of St. Maarten / St. Martin and the Caribbean region. Now for its third consecutive year, the St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association (SHTA) organizes the awards event to recognize the drivers behind the island's tourism economy.


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DineSXM Restaurant profiles "I18n"

I have just finished implementing the first internationalization ("I18n") features on DineSXM. Each of our restaurant descriptions can now be automatically translated from English into French, Dutch, Spanish and German. The translation quality is not perfect, it's done automatically on-demand through Yahoo's BabelFish service, but should still help those guests whose mother tongue is not English to get a better idea of what a restaurant has to offer.

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No more flattery, please!

Under "imitation" the New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition has the following entry:

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

To imitate someone is to pay the person a genuine compliment—often an unintended compliment.

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