Monthly Archives: September 2007

Technology wishlist item: Whisper Recognition

Voice recognition technology is amazing.  (If you don’t believe me, join Jott).  But I’ve seen now that there are mobile phone programs that allow you to dictate emails and text messages.  That is handier than thumbing the micro-keyboard (less hand required by handier, odd), but it only does much for privacy on one end.

What we need is whisper recognition.  In fact, this could even work for voice calls as well (either through some form of amplification or an artificial voice at the other end.

The technology itself could enforce a low whisper by sounding an alarm if the sender gets too loud.

That’s a freebie for all the venture capitalists who regularly visit my blog.

Goals page gone for now

I don’t want this to be a silent edit. Recent developments have changed my schedule beyond recognition and it will be awhile before I can figure out new goals to meet.

One thing that has been life changing forever is to refusing to rubberneck the pile-ups on the information superhighway (or misinformation, rather)–that is, simply ceasing to browse the ani-FV jihad as it is represented on the internet. For the first time in over two months I looked in on the cesspool and it was just as awful as before. The only difference was that this time I had two months or more of peace to remember and to want back.

So I’m back. Let the dead bury their dead. Move on.

No one can escape changing

That’s not an ideal but an actual fact of life.

If anyone has undergone a decided and drastic change for the worse, it is the person to pretends to be preserving the past.  Pioneers do not beget museum curators or waxwork proprieters unless a recessive gene mutated the line beyond substantial recognition.

And nothing in the above statement means or implies that all change must or should be embraced.