Update 2002-01-29. Remove <code>...</code> tags, since they're not supported. Oh, the irony!
Entirely unrelated to open-sourcery, but an interesting
anecdote to boot...
Last night I was driving home from a friend's house around
midnight. As I was driving up Van Ness St, a major street
that cuts through San Francisco, I stopped at a traffic
light. In the lane next to me was a black Chevy with a
picture of a lit Olympic torch silkscreened onto the door,
and the words '2002 Olympic Torch Relay' on the back. I
gave the driver a friendly smile and thumbs up, and he
waved back. The light changed to green, and I drove on.
As I was driving along at about 30mph, the car caught up
with me, and the woman in the passenger seat rolled her
window down, and yelled "Hey! I have something for you!",
holding out her hand. I reached out my window, grabbed the
small item, and yelled back a thank you. The item turned
out to be a little gold 'Salt Lake City - 2002 Olympic
Torch Relay' pin. A really cool souvenir to have!
Since the torch arrives in
San Francisco today, I wonder if this is the actual
vehicle that carries the torch from place to place?
Cheers,
--- Rupert
update: 2001-12-27: fix CMU Sphinx URL.
This greatly amused me. From a CNN news story today:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/25/xp.
london.launch/index.html
October 25, 2001 Posted: 1:19 PM EDT (1719 GMT)
By Graham Jones
CNN
(CNN) -- Microsoft has launched its new Windows XP
operating system.
The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow
users to delete data from their hard drive.
Data deletion, wow! The great new feature in operating
systems that the world has waited thirty years for with
bated breath! Go Bill, go!
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