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On a jetplane
Got on a plane bound for Lansing around 11 this morning. Prior to boarding, I talked for a moment with one of the officers of my former employers and one of my current investments, AMZN. (hi werner) We discussed cloud computing and attempted to add some content to an otherwise semantically empty term. While I…
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Rob McKenna’s response
I requested that Rob McKenna stop his nonsense, noting that he was harming my small business. Here is his response, in which he implies that he does not drive cars and is further not aware that one who drives cars must carry insurance. Thank you for taking the time to contact my office to express…
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I miss my android
Wah.
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PocketSphinx on android via the NDK
While working on my project for the Spring ’10 “NLP on Mobile Devices” course, I put together a PocketSphinx ndk build. You can pull it down from my git repo: $ git clone git://colliertech.org/colliertech/PocketSphinx.git I haven’t written any of the JNI marshaling functions yet, though.
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GSoC 2010
Earlier this month, I applied to the Mono Project (and the University of Washington, and Ubuntu, and Debian, and The Perl Foundation) requesting a mentor to get Perl6 hosted on the DLR. Last Tuesday, Miguel contacted me and asked that I chat with Michael Hutchinson about possibly taking up a different project. It seems that…
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Conversation with T-Mobile
You have been connected to ^Carsheena H. C.J. Adams-Collier: hi there! ^Carsheena H: Hi C.J. , welcome to T-Mobile live Chat. I’m ^Carsheena and I will be happy to assist you. Please give me a moment to review your question. C.J. Adams-Collier: heh, no problem ;) ^Carsheena H: Thank you for your patience, C.J. C.J.…
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Ohai!
Scarlet, Zelda, Hannah and I are out and about on Queen Anne hill. We were going to meet someone, but she has pregnant brain and double-booked herself. We’re going to a park after we finish our coffee. Scarlet got her ears pierced and I got a new earring. And I thought I’d try out thisandroid…
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John Hodgman is using software that I helped to write
A recent blog post by The Hodg Man mentions that he uses (AND ENJOYS) a product I’ve helped to build. Yay. *** FULL DISCLOSURE NUMBER TWO FAITHFUL READERS OF THIS IMITATION BLOG know that, having crashed my own website repeatedly while linking to it Twitterphonically, I experimented with NEW INTERNET TECHNOLOGY to try to fix…
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Getting started with gtk♯
This is a quick tutorial for getting a first gtk-sharp app up and going. Install MonoDevelop $ sudo apt-get install monodevelop libgtk2.0-cil-dev Start MonoDevelop It’ll be in your GNOME application menu under Applications->Programming->MonoDevelop Create a new Gtk# Project Run project You can run this boilerplate by pressing Ctrl-F5 Using the Designer Double-click on the file…