Thursday, July 23, 2009

Quiet, Please! (Part II)

I am again in the Belfast Free Library. Mercifully, no work is being done on the road outside, and the noises that filled the great reading room on Tuesday have gone. Today, however, I have been joined at my long wooden table by a man with a penchant for pornographic videos and not a clue as to how to mute his netbook.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Quiet, Please!

Some kind of construction work is being done on the street near the public library in Belfast, Maine, where I am trying to get some work done. This is what it sounds like in th Belfast Pubic Library right now.

Frustrating!

Working with great intensity but to little positive effect. Frustrating!

Friday, July 17, 2009

Online Text to Speech

To save my eyes, I found two online text-to-speech applications that work well, without limiting the length of text one enters to be read:

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Hunch

Hunch: the most personalized of searches.

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