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

As the developer of SpeakIt hasn’t updated it for Firefox 3 and I couldn’t get the speech bit of Accessibar to work, I trawled around and found this Firefox 3 extension.It looks a good replacement for the late, lamented FoxyVoice.
CLiCk,Speak is an open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser. It is part [...]

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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 with [...]

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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 were covered [...]

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