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I forgot today was my birthday cause there were no txt messages, emails and facebook message. Lol…perhaps it shows I’m too old to care anymore.

Ummm, yes, I am all spinvoxed. I applied to Spinvox (www.spinvox.com) yesterday, and I got a reply straight away, which is very very efficient of them I must say. I am quite excited by this company. Its got a cool name, a fun atmosphere and its almost like the Google of Voice Recognition.

I signed up to their supposedly 7 days free trail of voicemail to text service so I really want to see if this whole fuss actually works. I will let you all know when it does, so if you are calling and I don’t answer, leave a voice-(to-text)-mail

—-Update—-

Well, nothing much to update about except for the fact that I have asked around more and more about this opportunity in Spinvox and Dr Tony Robinson. So, here is the deal. Tony Robinson is looking to hire around 10 people to join his team. He is definitely one of the most well-known speech recognition scientists and entrepreneur out there, and this is like getting hired by House. He graduated in Cambridge and helped BBC build their automatic subtitles back in the 90s. So if I do get this job it would probably be one of my fastest learning curve yet in my life. So lets see if I get this interview.

Meanwhile, I’m still waiting…You can read a BBC article with Tony Robinson explaining how Spinvox works.

Vincent sent me this today. Check [www.miniature-earth.com] out.

It does make me wonder why all of us still try to get a better job, to earn more money, just being selfish basically. What can I do more as my little part to combat poverty? Giving money is not enough…

Why do people laugh at me when I say I want to take a year out and do some volunteering work whereas people praise you and admire you for getting a job in a bank?

Why do we ignore God’s presence when we are living happily and comfortably, but when we see poverty staring at us we wonder whether God had abandoned us?

What is this world coming to?

Randy made an interesting statement on his blog…Not sure if he was meant to put that there…

This is what you call the McGurk effect. Play it and see what you hear. Then close your eyes and hear it again. Finally, switch your sound off, and see what you think the guy is saying.

You can see this explained in Japanese.