May 2007 - Posts

This would be pretty funny if there wasn't so much truth to it...

Published Thu, May 31 2007 21:39 | William

IMAO Exclusive: The White House's and WSJ's Immigration Bill FAQ

Filed under: Humor

SpeechSynthesizer Al Qaeda Style

Published Thu, May 31 2007 3:17 | William

I don't know why, but every time I hear Adam Gadahn I start cracking up. I think he'd be a lot scarier with like a black cape, or a monacle and a persian or something but he doesn't get on me about how I dress, so I should grant him the same...

Filed under: Humor, SpeechSynthesizer, SpeechSynthesize.SpeakSsml

.Ass Error?

Published Wed, May 30 2007 23:54 | William

When i got an email about an .ass error, I figured someone was sending me a Landsowne update or something. Apparently not? .

Well at least I live in Dekalb

Published Wed, May 30 2007 17:26 | William

This story is just so disturbing . I've been hearing about it over and over since yesterday, and I swear, I've heard 12 different 'official' versions of this thing. Just read the story, and how creepy it is. I'm glad to know that all...

Filed under: Atlanta

Surface/Milan

Published Wed, May 30 2007 16:17 | William

By now, everyone and their brother has probably blogged, this, but man it it sure is cool

Filed under: Milan, Surface

Real Cyber attacks vs books/movies

Published Tue, May 29 2007 21:36 | William

Well, here are a few . Then again, I can think of a lot more. The network connections for instance in any given movie back in the 80's had speeds that would blow away anything I've ever seen in real life. They also had amazing abilities to type...

Filed under: CyberAttack, Estonia

There's nowhere like home

Published Tue, May 29 2007 21:31 | William

Oh how I yearn to move back to Miami sometimes. never a dull moment

Another interesting story on the Estonia CyberAttack

Published Tue, May 29 2007 20:56 | William

I've found the whole thing intriguing since I first heard of it. Reading updates on their response is even more intriguing . You have to wonder, how conclusive does evidence need to be before action can be taken? Yes, I realize Estonia isn't going...

Cool stuff in alternative energy

Published Mon, May 28 2007 5:09 | William

My homie Cornbread Canfield/ sent me this and as always, it's way cool

Filed under: Cool Stuff

Progress on the SSMLWriter and lack thereof on Silverlight project

Published Mon, May 28 2007 4:18 | William

So as you can probably tell, any post that doesn't include something about Silverlight probably means that I'm procrastinating on it. Yep. Every time I start on it, I end up trying to dephuk it and end up doing the exact opposite. Anyway, I decided...

Filed under: Vista, System.Speech, SpeechSynthesizer, SSML

SpeechSynthesizer.SpeakSsml

Published Sun, May 27 2007 23:20 | William

I quickly got annoyed when I was trying to fool around with the SpeechSynthesizer class. I remember I got a SSML read working a while ago, but couldn't figure it out to save my life this time around. Anyway, I couldn't get it to read correctly...

Filed under: Vista, System.Speech, SpeechSynthesizer

Gadget coolness

Published Sun, May 27 2007 22:14 | William

God this looks cool . Frank's right though, the image on the screen is definitely in need of Windows Update, literally.

Filed under: Gadgets, Tablet PC

Tablets Vista and WPF - Part II

Published Sun, May 27 2007 21:41 | William

Well, in the first part, I said I was going to start working on getting it working with WPF/E Silverlight. All I realized was that it looked a little easier than I first thought. Anyway, I wanted to play with a few tweaks first. So I added a few buttons...

Filed under: WPF, Ink, Tablet PC, Silverlight, System.Speech, WPF/E

Tablets Vista and WPF

Published Sun, May 27 2007 5:24 | William

I got sidetracked pretty bad tonight working on my tablet. Started working on a basic Inking application and I really got off track. Started out with a InkCanvas and an Image. < Grid > < InkCanvas Name = " icMain " > < InkCanvas...

Filed under: WPF, Ink, Tablet PC

Pimping System.Net

Published Sat, May 26 2007 6:01 | William

As most of my readers know, I'm a huge Phil Hendrie fan. I've actually personally thanked Herb Sewell and Walter Bellhaven in the acknowledgements of most of my books. Now you might be thinking "WTF, they are both criminal psychopaths, and...

Technical Blogging vs other stuff

Published Fri, May 25 2007 16:05 | William

I remember a while ago, KC had a post about what people really read. His point was that, no matter how cool his technical articles were, they didn't get anywhere near the attention that his posts on Religion/Politics/*** etc did. People may claim...

Filed under: Barbie Cummings, Blog Traffic

Got to love it

Published Fri, May 25 2007 15:59 | William

My earlier post about Barbie cummings got some love from Google . As I write this, it appears I'm #9 when you search for 'Barbie Cummings' - right behind ABC News. No love at all from Live ;-(

Filed under: Barbie Cummings

How not to do things

Published Tue, May 22 2007 0:21 | William

I'm loathe to write this b/c I don't typically disparage things which I enjoy. Yet if you want to know how to make a Really sucky voice user interface, make a crappy web site or screw just about anything else up, look no further than XM Radio...

Filed under: XM

I want one

Published Sun, May 20 2007 18:53 | William

this would be very cool to have in your living room. I saw one of these about 6 years ago at Sharper Image and have always wanted one - however Kim has made it abundantly clear that there will not be one in my future. I'm guessing the Laura Croft...

Barbie Cummings gets pulled over

Published Sun, May 20 2007 17:58 | William

Ok, before I continue, any links in this post are NSFW. Since I know many of my readers love NSFW stuff though .... In general, it seems blogs are really a powerful vehicle. In general, when someone goes up against a blogger, they usually end up getting...

Filed under: Barbie Cummings