When I started blogging, I asked you readers if I should continue in Dutch, or in English. A lot of my visitors are international, so I switched to English. I think that all blogs having to do with anything other than regional news should be in English. It annoyes me to see people babbling about something like VS.NET in their own (non-English) language. Hey, it’s about a global product, so talk to me in English.
Another thing is so-called intelligent software, that detects where I’m from while browsing the net. The result is that I’m viewing someones blog (or other pages) and some keywords like “comments”, “login”, “today”, “recently” are translated into Dutch (because I am, and I live in the Netherlands). That’s weird. And it does NOT contribute to my browsing experience. It looks clumsy. It’s like saying “you can understand my English posts, but let me translate the trivial text for you”. Duh! If I was too stupid to understand the trivial parts, the rest would be jibberish to me as well.