Author: sroot
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blogging without using a keyboard (using windows built in speech recognition)
I’ve been looking at buying dragon naturally speaking from an IT supplier for typing on to the computer. It is software I heard of many years ago that converts speech into type as you speak. I had an mail offering it for only 30.00 which is less than I remember. However I like to test…
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Memories of Nan Root
Taking Nicola to swimming club tonight we were talking about memories of her Nan and that reminded me of my Nan. Two things immediately sprung to mind, the first was going to Nan’s for lunch. She’d always lay on a huge spread of food, filling a table that to a 6 year old as as…
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ruby on rails sql_type – A reminder for me
I treated myself to a rails training course last weekend (with Well House Consultants, rather good, I’ll write about it if I get around to it). Immediately I start to create my first ruby app and I forget all the sqltypes I can use in my Model and where to look them up. As I…