Archive for “August, 2008”

On this page the following entries were made in the “August, 2008” time-frame.


CLicK,Speak a speech reader Firefox extension

Posted August 18th, 2008 by Asbocat

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?

Posted August 18th, 2008 by Asbocat

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.

Posted August 18th, 2008 by Asbocat

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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