Archive for the ‘English’ Category

Ace Likes Tuna

Here’s what happens when I offer Ace some tuna. It’s her favorite.

Switzerland Once More

So I was in Switzerland again with J and it was great. Here are the pictures.

Google+ Following Violates Privacy (In Its Current State)

I’ve been using Google+ for a couple of days and have been very happy with it. It’s really a great social network, but I’ll refrain from rehashing the same things everyone has been saying. You can Google it yourself. One of the things Google+ has been slated to be is a Twitter replacement, in which [...]

Trying Google’s Voice Search

Here’s what I got trying to say “Amit Schreiber” into Google’s Voice Search using my netbook and Google Chrome: sperm tribe sure I burn ami schreiber what the f*** chile I’m yours driver tommy shaw rugs how many shriver short send me to a boot striper Oh, well… I guess it goes through a relevance [...]

Forgotten Experiences

Yesterday I called a friend of mine who is visiting from the US and is staying at her parents’ place. My mind struggled for 2 seconds before I remembered how to say “may I speak with…” It’s been years since I’ve uttered this request. And today my father called to tell me about an interesting [...]

Google Probably Knows Everything About Me…

… but then why do I get Venus women’s razor ads on YouTube? Maybe it’s a “knowing the future” kind of thing. EDIT: OK, this is not funny. Now I got an Always pads ad. What the hell, Google?

Goodbye Unity, Welcome Back Gnome (Classic)

I gave Unity a good chance, but it was simply torture. Maybe it’s the over 3 years old hardware I’m running Ubuntu on, or maybe it’s the servers I’m running on my machine for the project I’m working on, but the hard drive kept thrashing to a point where it was unbearable. Sometimes just clicking [...]

Ubuntu 11.04 Launcher Doesn’t Auto Hide

If you installed Ubuntu 11.04 and after a while the launcher stops auto hiding as it should, it may be because you did some dragging and dropping in an application. For example, if you use Konsole (like I do) and you drag one of Konsole’s tabs to reorganize their order, the launcher will suddenly pop [...]

Question Marks When Exporting Outlook Contacts

If you get question marks after exporting Outlook contacts to a file (like a CSV file), you should try setting the non-Unicode language to your own, as described here, and then export again. If this doesn’t work, I recommend undoing this by going back to the original setting.

When Text-To-Speech-To-Text Is Perfected

What’s going to happen when text-to-speech-to-text is perfected? Phones can already read text messages well enough and soon you’ll be able to input text messages to your phone just by talking to it. Then, instead of texting, you’ll be: Talking to your phone (entering a message.) Waiting for a reply, entered by your friend by [...]