Once again, it’s that time of the year when you open your wallet and make a large donation to the best college radio station in the country, KALX. Okay, so I’m a little bit biased because my wife is the general manager of the station, but they really are awesome. And speaking of awesome, this… Read More »
Next week October 23-25 I will be in Phoenix for the ScanSoft/Nuance Conversations 2005 conference. ScanSoft formally changed their name to Nuance yesterday. During most of the time the Solutions Showcase area is open, you’ll be able to find me in the Voxify booth. If you’re also going to be at the conference, please stop… Read More »
Via Boing Boing I found this NYT article on Life Hackers and interruptions. It’s an excellent update on efforts to reduce the deleterious impacts of interruptions on people who spend lots of time on computers trying to accomplish many things in a short period of time. Well, at least it’s an excellent update on what… Read More »
Perhaps the speech recognition platform and application business has reached a new level of maturity, as a sudden wave of consolidation has begun to sweep through the industry. The biggest recent move was at the most basic level, i.e., the automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech engine level. While ScanSoft/SpeechWorks has been buying up ASR and… Read More »
In a move that probably should have happened from the beginning, it looks like Mississippi is finally going to allow casinos to be built up to 800 feet onshore. The legal change has been approved by the Legislature, and is now just waiting on the Governor’s approval. The owner of the Treasure Bay Casino is… Read More »
If you’re not heavily involved in the development or use of free and open source software, I imagine it can be very hard to understand the subtleties and the importance of free (as in liberty and speech) software versus open software that you can use for free (as in gratis and beer). For most software… Read More »
Although it took a month after Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, my mother has finally gotten someone to come out and put a tarp on her roof. The hurricane had ripped enough shingles from her roof to cause leaks in several places. She had signed a Right of Entry form several weeks ago… Read More »
I’m starting to get the feeling that I should have just created a category called “Hurricane” and then set up “Katrina” and “Rita” as sub-categories, because it looks like we are in for a future of a lot (bevy, gaggle, horde?) of major hurricanes hitting areas where I have a lot of friends and family.… Read More »
A friend just sent me a link to a PDF presentation of before-and-after overhead photos of Biloxi. The after photos were taken at a slightly different angle, so you can’t exactly compare them, but you can compare them well enough. The destruction in the neighborhoods that are shown is amazing. There are a couple photos… Read More »
I’m back after spending just over a week on vacation in Ireland. My wife and I met up with thirteen other family members and spouses connected to the McGuire side of the family. We stayed at McKeever’s Mill near Nobber, which is about an hour from Dublin. The mill was a great place to stay… Read More »