Those of you who read my blog on my website may have noticed something in the sidebar that says “Translator” and has 42 flags underneath it. (Those who read my blog elsewhere will not have noticed.)

That is the Global Translator plugin for WordPress, which I consider to be one of the most awesome plugins ever made.  Behind the scenes, it goes out and automatically translates the pages of my blog into 41 languages, and stores the translations on my website.  So if you’re on any of my blog pages, you can click on the flag representing a language and see the page in that language.  (If the plugin hasn’t had a chance to translate the page yet, it automatically sends you to Google’s translation website, where the page is translated on the fly.)

So, for example, if you want to read my story “The Six Billion Dollar Colon,” which I recently published on my blog, in Finnish, now you can.

The plugin will translate from English to Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Portuguese, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian , Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Albanian, Estonian, Galician, Maltese, Thai, Turkish, Hungarian.