Archive for July, 2006

I won the Lottery

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Last week, I was having a good week. Lots of things happened that fixed a whole bunch of things that have been bothering me for sometime. I had a couple of really good days where I was feeling so good that I was singing – a lot. I am by no means a gambler, but [...]

It’s a shame Kubric isn’t around to see this

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Microsoft demoed their new ‘speech recognition’ technology the other day at the Annual Financial Analysts Meeting. The idea is that you can speak to your computer and it can turn your words into text. Neat! Theoretically computers can now take over the drudgery of having to pay people to answer phones, or having to pay [...]

Plugs

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Now that I am online and submitting things to the wilderness (or more accurately a subset of my immediate family and friends) I think it’s necessary for me to to say that this is all thanks to Ross Williams. Ross is a special ‘advanced model’ of a human being. Smart, energetic, generous, compassionate and successful. [...]