I used to be good at this...

Submitted by xtex on Fri, 2010-01-15 13:29

I used to be good at this... but I have let this site stagnate, despite the tons and tons of stuff I want to write about.  Hmm.  I'll get back to it, I promise. 

Sorta still here...

Submitted by xtex on Sun, 2009-11-22 14:57

 Sort of still updating this thing... I need to get back to it, actually... 

still here

Submitted by xtex on Wed, 2009-09-23 22:21

 I'm still around, I just haven't had much to say lately... I've got a nice collection of tech stuff I need to post, though, and I'll make an effort to get that done soon.

Site Moved

Submitted by xtex on Wed, 2009-08-26 17:26

I just moved my site over to its new home at mediatemple.   I'm now using shared hosting instead of a dedicated server, so things will be slower than before, but it shouldn't be too bad.

I also ended up redoing the URL back to blog.xtex.org so the old stuff I used to have online could be accessible again. Using the magic of Apache URL rewriting, this should be transparent -- if you try to go to something on 'xtex.org' that doesn't exist, it will just bounce you over to the blog.  Spiffy.

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  http://blog.xtex.org/$1 [L,QSA,R=301]

I reduced my monthly cost by about 98%. So. Yah. I'll deal with the speed. :)

Google Voice Transcriptions III

Submitted by xtex on Wed, 2009-08-26 10:31

 Well, it's getting better...

Translation:  "Hey Justin, it's Lindsey from Bass Lofts. I think your umbrella has arrived, so you just need to come pick it up from the office.  Thank you.  Bye bye."

In other news, my new patio umbrella has arrived.  ;)

Typos

Submitted by xtex on Mon, 2009-08-24 12:22

 Anal lyrics?

Time Machine Meltdown

Submitted by xtex on Mon, 2009-08-24 11:50

 Well this is unfortunate...

Shark Week!

Submitted by xtex on Sun, 2009-08-02 13:10

Shark Week on the Discovery Channel starts tonight. I actually look forward to this every year. :)

If you haven't seen this yet, here are pictures of Discovery Communications headquarters building, from 2006.

  

Comcast Love

Submitted by xtex on Fri, 2009-07-31 20:47

 Yeah. I can live with this.

Google Voice ... more weird transcriptions

Submitted by xtex on Thu, 2009-07-30 12:15

 Google Voice is a neat concept, but their speech-to-text system needs some serious work. I also have Vonage, which also has a speech-to-text system, and it works very well. I rarely have an email from them that makes no sense.  But GV consistently transcribes things completely wrong.

So. Yeah.