On this page the following entries were made in the “August, 2008” time-frame.
Archive for “August, 2008”
CLicK,Speak a speech reader Firefox extension
Now on Firefox 6 and CLiCK,Speak seems to have gone the way of all good extensions…to the wall; the developers site has not been updated since 2008 and the extension is no longer offered on the Mozilla site. Now I am trying FoxVox and SpeechUtil to see which is the most convenient for listening to [...]
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Time for cyclists to obey the law?
Congestion, soaring fuel prices and more designated lanes are some of the reasons given for a huge rise in cycling across UK towns and cities. But it has led to rising tension between drivers, pedestrians and those on two wheels. Cyclist Jason Howard was fined £2,200 following the death of a pedestrian he had collided [...]
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The way we were.
Congratulations to all the kids who were born in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs [...]
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