I was mucking around with the speech-recognition software on my computer. It’s fairly limited, responding only to particular phrases that trigger particular commands, for example, “close window”, “paste clipboard here”. I noticed that a few commands only seemed to work if I said them with an American accent. The New Zealand way of dropping Rs [...]
The guy at the outdoor equipment store was very nice. He had a hickey on his neck. He gave me a brochure about tents. There was a special bonus session of the Mind Control Cult today, but I didn’t know (I forgot to check my phone messages), so I missed out. Instead I did my [...]
I’ve already established that I’m not a web designer. There was a brief period where I thought I’d have to declare that I was not a web developer, but fortunately people stopped calling me that. But then I realised that there are many folks who think that I am a computer geek. No, no, no! [...]