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Yo. So it's about two months since I last updated this page, and a bunch
of stuff happened. First off, the site got hacked into; I lost some amount
of data, but managed to recover the main site. I've since taken more
stringent precautions against hackers. Ech. Can't a man just run his
site in peace?<p>
Anyhow, I went to the Netherlands with Vanessa, and it was absolutely
awesome. I went clubbing in <a href="http://www.amsterdam.nl/">Amsterdam</a>
and was subsequently introduced to <a href="http://www.djjean.com/">DJ Jean</a>'s
incredible tunes -- he's more or less the defining club sound of the
Netherlands. I'll put some sound bites up here soon, perhaps.<p>
Relevant to my website, I've installed my webcam that I won from the
<a href="http://snap.com/">Snap.com</a> sweepstakes (with
<a href="../code/sweep.txt">this code</a>) and you'll now notice that the
middle of my checkerboard front contains a live image of yours truly,
updated every ten seconds. =) This is going to screw with my logs, but
that's fine. I've removed the international sections of my site, mainly
because the translations were so horrible. If you want them back,
<a href="mailto:david@weekly.org">tell me</a> and I'll bring them
back.<p>
I think I will be discontinuing my work on the Start project: one of
the guys I was working with decided to go off and start his own company
without telling me. A bit jerkish, eh? Ah, well.<p>
Incidentally, at the ACM contest I was given a copy of
<a href="http://ibm.com/">IBM</a>'s
<a href="http://ibm.com/viavoice/">ViaVoice</a> continuous
speech recognition package. It is an <b>impressive</b> piece
of software. It actually works. I may soon start using it for
most of my typing. "You talk, it types," as the saying goes.
Amazing.<p>
It is incredibly sunny outside! The last few days have been
absolutely gorgeous here at Stanford, and I've enjoyed
frolicking in the sunshine aplenty.<p>
Courses look good for this quarter: I'm acting in a play,
making sculptures, and learning about how computers interface
to humans best. It should all be neat. More info as it comes
in! =)
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