Monthly Archives: March 2003

Mayflower Park Seattle

By | March 30, 2003

If you’re traveling to Seattle, I highly recommend staying at the Mayflower Park hotel. They provide free wireless access to the Internet. We picked up a really strong signal in our room, even on Sandra’s Powerbook with the Apple Airport card. Also, the hotel is in an extremely convenient location in downtown Seattle, the staff… Read More »

A Claustrophobic’s Worst Nightmare

By | March 24, 2003

As Bolivian Miners Die, Boys Are Left to Toil This sad story in the New York Times is a very accurate account of the life of the young Bolivian miners working Cerro Rico in Potosí. There are virtually no old miners, as almost all of them die of silicosis before reaching the age of 45.… Read More »

PhoneBlogger Initial Code Release

By | March 19, 2003

I released the first version of the PhoneBlogger source code last Monday on the PhoneBlogger SourceForge project site. As with SoccerPhone, I released it under the GNU GPL. I haven’t changed much of the code since January, as I have been working on a couple other projects. I’ll probably start working on PhoneBlogger again in… Read More »

Mmm… Vlaamse Frites

By | March 12, 2003

Jingo all the way, oh what fun it is to deride… (kottke.org) Jason Kottke points out the silliness of the current protest by the Republicans that has resulted in french fries being rebranded as freedom fries in the House of Representatives’ cafeterias. In addition to reminding me that our legislature is cursed with a majority… Read More »

SoccerPhone and MLS Website Change

By | March 9, 2003

Okay, so I’ve now updated SoccerPhone to work with the new HTML layout for the live scores page at the MLS website. The cool thing is that I only had to update a few methods in the Python CGI scripts, mostly the regular expressions that I use to locate the game time, scores, elapsed time,… Read More »

SoccerPhone 0.1 Code Release

By | March 8, 2003

I finally got around to releasing the code for SoccerPhone on the SoccerPhone SourceForge project site. So, if you’re looking for code samples for using VoiceXML and Python CGI scripts to speech enable a web site, check it out. the code is licensed under the GPL. Since MLS changed the HTML layout for their live… Read More »

Local Harvest

By | March 8, 2003

Local Harvest is an awesome site for learning about options for obtaining locally grown organic food just about anywhere in the United States. Well, except in Mississippi, where I grew up. Sandra and I do a bi-weekly pickup of organic produce from Terra Firm Farm, a 99 acre CCOF certified organic farm in Winters, California.… Read More »

Transcribing Audio Blogs

By | March 6, 2003

In brief: 27 Feb 2003 [dive into mark] While I’m going to try to add text transcription to PhoneBlogger, I don’t how successful it will be. In one of the items in his Feb 27 blog entry, Mark suggests that when you are audio/phone blogging, “any audio content needs to be supplemented with a simultaneous… Read More »