Monthly Archives: August 2004

Valenti Logic

By | August 31, 2004

Do you think you have mastered all forms of logical thinking? Well, prepare to enter the Jack Valenti Logic Zone – The Engadget Interview: Jack Valenti. A place where hyperbolic bluster, falsehoods, and ignorance rule the day. Jack Valenti is the departing head of the MPAA. Valenti, you might remember, is most notorious for his… Read More »

Corny Photos

By | August 29, 2004

I posted a photo last month of one my cats sitting at the table about to engage in a full scale assault on an ear of corn. This was an old photo from when he was a kitten. As Alexi has gotten older, he demands access to the corn as soon as it comes out… Read More »

Scary Snacks

By | August 28, 2004

What’s not to like from the list of the World’s 9 Worst Convenience Foods. Clam jerky, anyone? This list seems to have drifted around the Internet for quite some time. Too bad none of the sites added links to where one might order these tasty botañas. Here’s a couple I found: Reindeer pate Corned mutton… Read More »

Treo 650 Rumors

By | August 28, 2004

Rumors about the feature set of the Treo 650 are getting more detailed and believable. Of the features described, I find the following very enticing, albeit not enticing enough to upgrade from the Treo 600. If I didn’t already have the 600, though, I would be trying to put in an order right now. 16… Read More »

Toto Neorest 600

By | August 24, 2004

I’m starting to think I need to add a new toilets category to my blog. I couldn’t resist posting about the Toto Neorest 600. While I thought my incinerating toilet was pricey in the $1,000-$1,500 range, I found the the Neorest 600 listed at $7,000, but available at the low, low discount price of $3,400… Read More »

VoiceXML Tutorial

By | August 22, 2004

A great VoiceXML tutorial just showed up in the Voice section of the Developer.com website. It’s just part one of a three-part series, but IBM’s Jeff Kusnitz and Bruce Lucas covered a lot of ground in a fairly short article. I wish I had run across an introduction to VoiceXML like this one when I… Read More »

ARL:UT Open Source

By | August 17, 2004

I was quite surprised this afternoon to see a story on Slashdot announcing that a group at ARL:UT (Applied Research Labs : University of Texas) had open sourced GPSTk, “a cross platform library and set of applications that provides both fundamental and advanced GPS processing algorithms”. I worked at ARL:UT for five years while I… Read More »

Living Museum Art Center

By | August 17, 2004

The Living Museum Art Center at Harbor View House is an arts program that is run by HealthView. Harbor View House is a non-profit residential mental health care facility in Southern California. The website has four pages of work (though unfortunately the first sent doesn’t appear in FireFox due to some IE proprietary HTML) done… Read More »

Text To Speech Online Demos

By | August 13, 2004

I had run across the online demo of the AT&T Natural Voices TTS engine quite awhile ago, but seeing a reference to it in an article today on Slashdot reminded me of how cool it is. You enter text in a text box and choose a voice from a list of thirteen. The list includes… Read More »