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Well today is my 52nd birthday. That's right, I'm an Old Man playing in a young man's game. I love what I do and I wouldn't trade it for anything but sometimes I get feeling old and wonder if it's time to give up the game...or not. Staying up on what
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Well, the GotSpeech Guy is traveling again this week. I'm headed up to Columbia SC on business for a few days so if you are in that area then shoot me an email and maybe we can hook up. This will be my second week in a row on the road and I was only home
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Well, it is that time of the year. We are leaving tomorrow morning for the mountains of North Carolina. I'm really looking forward to the time with family and to relaxing in the cooler mountain air. I grew up going to to the mountains every summer and
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I got an email a few days ago that started like this: This will sound strange, but a new Martial will be filling the vacant IVR position at Landstar. I'm very excited about the possibilities. It looks like I've got some big shoes to fill. .... Yes that's
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My new Zune arrived yesterday and I am stoked. My son has had one since the first week they were available and I had to settle for his old IPod Nano. Not anymore. I've got my own Zune now. The only problem is that I have 30 gigs to fill and that will
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I'm still happy to be up on Vista but I did run into a few problems so I reinstalled Vista as a clean install instead of an upgrade. I had Live Onecare on the box before the upgrade and Vista requires a different version that is still in beta but is scheduled
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Happy New Year to everyone. I think this will be a breakout year for all of of Speech Server developers. My New Years Resolutions: Spend more time with my family (i.e. away from work and the computer) Eat more healthy and exercise more Loose weight -
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As I blogged about previously , I have a new WinRadio WR-G305e . This radio is phenomenal and I love the control that the interface gives me. Reception was lousy at first as the only antenna I had was the test antenna that came with it and it was strung
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September was a really rough month for me. You probably noticed that I've been kind of quiet for the last month. Well that was mainly because of two things that happened. I got sick on the 10th with some kind of flue bug that hit me hard. I only missed
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I don't want to go into a lot of detail here but I have been thinking about that morning 5 years ago. I remember hearing that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and thinking that some kind of private Cessna or something had been involved.
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It seems that some people who work around me are under the impression that I'm "running" GotSpeech out of my cubicle at work while I am supposed to be working. I’ve also heard that I’m running this as a business and making money off of it. None of that
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Well Sara and I found out today that MS Press won't publish our book. I think that the bottom line is just that they feel the audience is too small and they won't sell enough copies to make it worthwhile. MSS is still just a niche market in their eyes.
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Today is the last day of my vacation and that is a major bummer . Some of you know that I was vacationing last week in the mountains of North Carolina staying at this place . It was nice even though I fell down the stairs my second day there (I can be
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