Bad news for my free, public SoccerPhone service, which ran as a TellMe Extension. I received the following email from TellMe today: VoiceXML Developer, Tellme has made many investments in VoiceXML over the past four years. One of these investments was in the Extensions program, with the goal of making VoiceXML a more utilized public… Read More: TellMe Extensions Is No More »
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: Mayflower Park Seattle »
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: A Claustrophobic’s Worst Nightmare »
Bush and Blair lip sync in harmony. You have to see it to enjoy it. Via This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: March 16, 2003 – March 22, 2003 Archives
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: PhoneBlogger Initial Code Release »
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: Mmm… Vlaamse Frites »
New Scientist: Gauging Age by Smell of Urine Wow. And all this time I had been using it only to gauge asparagus comsumption.
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 and MLS Website Change »
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: SoccerPhone 0.1 Code Release »
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: Local Harvest »