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July 2006 - Posts

Wait, that was MY bug? Ouch!

Over the weekend, the wires were full with reports of a speech recognition demo at the Microsoft's Financial Analysts Meeting here in Seattle that went horribly wrong. Slashdot had it , Neowin had it, Digg had it , Reuters had it . It was everywhere. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 11:08 AM by LarryOsterman | 88 Comments

WASAPI documentation online

I've known this for a while, but forgot to mention it. The documentation for the WASAPI interfaces (core audio interfaces in Vista) are now available on MSDN . The documents aren't final, but they're likely to be pretty close. Now I can start talking Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:33 PM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments
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Paddington Thoughts

The other day, I mentioned I got sucked off on a high priority project shortly after I returned from my vacation. I was asked to help out with the EU protocol documentation effort, working on a couple of the documents (based on some stuff I did back when Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:08 AM by LarryOsterman | 31 Comments

Daniel's first play of the summer starts on Thursday!

This summer, Daniel's appearing in two separate SCT productions (I believe he's the first actor to appear in two summer season productions during the same season). This Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:15PM, he appears in the role of "Father" in SCT's Read More...
Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 6:21 PM by LarryOsterman | 0 Comments
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Seen in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

One more from my trip to Europe. One of the things that really surprised me about the Grand Bazaar was that many of the corridors had flat-screen monitors placed every 10 meters or so displaying the Turkish feed of CNBC-e. It was basically a culture-shock Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:45 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments
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To default, or not to default, that is the question...

One of the "interesting" features of C++ is the ability to default the value of parameters to a method. It's one of those features that I'm sure that Bjarne Stroustrup thought was just flat-out neat (there are a number of feature in C++ that fall into Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:04 PM by LarryOsterman | 32 Comments

I'm Back (European trip report)

I'm a baaad blogger. It's been a while, sorry 'bout that. We were on vacation 'til the 5th, then I got massively jetlagged (which was weird, because I didn't have any jet lag issues on the trip to Istanbul, usually I have problems going west to east, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:22 PM by LarryOsterman | 15 Comments
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