I’ve seen a lot of web filters over the years. You know, those programs that take a web page and convert it
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Voice (Mis)Recognition
Talk to your computer and it only hears gibberish!
Today I downloaded Microsoft’s Speech SDK v5.1. All 68 MegaBytes of it. I wanted to see how accurate it’s voice recognition could be. After all, talking into my script-writing program would surely be faster than my fairly hopeless typing.
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Milligan’s Autograph
Farewell Spike Milligna, the well known typing error…
Some people collect autographs as a passion. Others casually get autographs from famous people they meet (athletes leaving the field, an actor in a coffee shop, that kind of thing), keep them for a while, then throw them away. From a fairly early age I realised that autographs meant nothing to me. I just didn’t “get” it – and I still don’t. What’s the big deal about getting someone famous to sign a piece of paper? Perhaps my contempt of autographs was just part of my contempt for fame. I’ve rarely been “awed” by seeing a famous person. But there is an exception. One day I did ask someone for their autograph: Spike Milligan.
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Spam, Wonderful Spam
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam…
If you thought spammers and scammers would use anything as an excuse to spam you or try to trick you, you were right. The events of 11 September are no exception. What I want to know is – if it’s OK for governments to over react to the New York and Washngton attacks by passing over-the-top security laws, why can’t the internet standards bodies pass anti-spam/scam recommendations to stop this stuff at an ISP or higher level? Or perhaps now it’s me who’s over reacting.
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Here Come the Nutbags
Look out! Here they come! And they’re nuttier than a particularly nutty nut-bar with extra nuts on top!
I guess it was only a matter of time, but after Tuesday 11 September 2001, several people with their own agendas have bolted the facts of what happened onto their own beliefs and prejudices.
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New York World Trade Center is Gone
What the hell just happened?
When it happened, we were at the movies. Typical really.
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Chatting to Lennon
Want to chat to John Lennon?
I’m a John Lennon fan. Well, I like a lot of his music. I never met the man himself, and by his own admission he had his flaws. But I also think his tragically short life was interesting.
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Dance Monkey Boy! DANCE!
See Steve dance. Dance Steve dance!
Wow. Every now and then you find something on the net, an image, an audio file, a video, that you know you shouldn’t have access to, but it’s out there and you can’t resist watching/listening to it. You know the stuff – the recording of that poor guy panicking about his missing hard drive, that footage of a guy bashing his computer in frustration, etc etc.
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Online Parliament – Bandwidth Waste?
Parliament online is cool. No really. REALLY! Oh to heck with you…
I have a guilty secret. I like to watch and listen to Parliament. Especially question time. I tell people I like to watch it because my partner is a Ministerial Adviser, but the truth is I’ve been listening to Parliamentary debates and Question Time on the radio since my school days.
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Introducing the MavLog
I have now set up a “weblog” on Mavart – after much twiddling with the weblog software Grey Matter (mostly playing with appearances, the software itself installed without a hitch).
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