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There You Have a Wash
Thursday 16th April 2009
Orwell here I am sitting minded and Talking To A Computer. One does and why. Been there you go. The field taken you to laugh six X was decreasing from that of and so it from NASA the sofa two are on the civil which.
Translation: "oh well, here I am sitting down and talking to a computer..." (work out the rest yourself — even I can't understand it!) No, I've not lost my marbles, I just though it was time to try out some speech recogintion software. This may be the next major step in technological innovation. It could be our future. Conclusion of tests: it's not.
Even though it hadn't coped well with my simple sentances, I decided to put it to the ultimate challenge by seeing what it made of The Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
. Here is what it came up with.
There You Have a Wash
The of the by Lewis Carroll
It was raining and there are signs the home Dealers Dyer and involved in that way and All means the world the borrow grows And the Moon rats how Craig
The weather channel wok, my son The jaws that by the clause that can Been where the young you are unsure That really yes band are snapped
He took his from awful sword in Longer time and a man somme following the sort of So rested he buys the compound tree And stood on while in all
Hands and the office for incident You're more weird I is for living Key man with enthralled that it will Be an there will be an evening
No one can recall what happened trial The what happened was request that The military queen returned Hung on and our long-and
Unfolds last month that long-and laughter from the Quantum world is 140 For Ravel's down from car you, Dan No more four years to on
Towards breathing and that so lying the And mine and the more you there when All means in word for ballroom go And the Moon rat out grabbing
With all the buzz about twitter the Guardian decided to scrap paper and convert to tweeting. This is the next biggest thing since Gutenberg pioneered the printing press!
UpsideTube
YouTube go Vertigo! There are even instructions about how to best to use the new layout.
Gmail AutopilotTM
Google Mail now automatically responds to your emails for you. You can customise to match your own personal style of emailing.
Le Strech
French president Sarkozy isn't the tallest diplomat on the planet but that's about to change. He's signed up to for height-enhancing surgery at the Poisson D'Avril medical center.
With all these flashy new browsers coming out we're in danger of losing the unique surfing experience which Internet Explorer 6 offers us. Join the movement, save IE6.
Nothing that yet beats last year's penguins though.
Alpine Legend
A new game for the Xbox 360. Alpine Legend. It's like Guitar Hero except instead of a playing a guitar you do yodeling. If you not hooked, there's a trailer too.
Forget Lightening Bolt, there will one day be someone faster than him. But there is one legend who will never have an equal. He's called Eric Moussambani, otherwise know as Eric the Eel. In Sydney 2000 he didn't meet the minimum qualification requirements but was given a special entry thanks to a scheme trying to encourage developing countries to take part. He took up swimming only 8 months before the Olympics and had only been able to practice in a 20m pool. The big day came and he was faced with a 50m pool, two fully trained competitors and the weight of an entire nation on his shoulders...
I was packing my rucksack to go on a week of Beach Missions and it was starting to get rather full just as I was packing my books. Mum came in just at that point. Chance? She suggested that I take my little Gideon's Bible instead of my hefty hard-back NIV. I followed her advice. During the train journey I took my Bible out of the bag, put it next to my bag on the luggage rack and then for some crazy reason decided to take a walk up the train, leaving the Bible next to my bag. Wierd? On the way back from my little walk I forgot the Bible and went and sat down back in my seat. Kinda random! I'm normally very conscious about remembering things. When I arrived at the next station I happily picked up my bag, minus Bible, and made my way to the platform. My next connection wasn't for a while and I sat on a bench, opposite that same train for at least 10 minutes as it prepared to go back to where it started. Ten whole minutes later the train was ready to go and the door slid shut. At the very second the doors clunked together I remebered I had forgotten my Bible. Split second coincidence? Some might call it a miniature disaster. I call it providence. Someone must have needed a Bible and so God found them one, by losing mine!
This one is dedicated to my parents for obvious reasons. Thankyou Mum and Dad for all the times that you put up with me, in the past and in the present. I love you.
Since it's Monday (just) it's time for the first installment of Monday Movies. Today features a bear that makes you think that maybe you're not having quite such a bad day as you could be.
The time is 9 o'clock and you are listening to Radio 4. Ding dong dang ding dong ding dang dong, dong, dong, dong... Today's top story, Sir Menzies tells of 'irritation' of having to step down as Lib Deb leader... zzzzz. Is anyone still awake? Alright, politics and stuff like that can be interesting and I suppose we should really take an interest in it as these are the people who run our country... but honestly! Sometimes the news can be a little dull. Most of the time it's rumours about rumours that have been rumoured to be started. Then along comes someone analysing the analyst who originally analysed the rumours. Then someone debates the fact that it was rumoured that the analyist debated the rumour in the first place. It makes my head hurt. So here are the highlights of the past few days from a lighter perspective.
Decrease illegal drug use by... legalising it
This one is not exactly light though their tactics for tackling crime did make me laugh. Does anyone else get the impression they're desperate?
Parrot causes confusion in old people's home
I don't know how some of this stuff ever makes it onto the news. There's even a video clip!
Olympic sausage logo banned
It hardly even makes sense! But certainly worth seeing.
How to pull your own teeth out
We all know to tie a string around it with a brick on the other end, then throw the brick out the window but this is what the professionals say.
Man gets ear grafted in arm
Ewwww! That's just freaky. But he did it for art so it's ok. Check it out
This has been Josh Donegani for Joshlog news in the peculiar wide world. It's back to the studio.