 | 19 February 2002 |
GB Women Curling Results - Rhona Martin's Team are in the semi-finals!
Final Score: GBR 9, GER 5
- GBR 0, GER 0
- GBR 0, GER 1
- GBR 1, GER 0
- GBR 0, GER 2
- GBR 1, GER 0
- GBR 3, GER 0
- GBR 1, GER 0
- GBR 0, GER 2
- GBR 3, GER 0
Gaun yersel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK the bad news is that we have to play Canada. The words 'snowballs' and 'hell' come to mind. Brilliant work to get us back into contention Rhona - a real battling performance and great teamwork.
Waiting was agony. For all the technology at my fingertips the crucial GB-Germany game wasn't being broadcast live on any of the channels on Terrestrial TV or Radio, it not even on any NTL channels - only on BBC interactive on SKY. Grrr. My only line of communication - the official Winter Olympics site - they have a frameset that updates automatically every few minutes.
9:48:14 PM
"Emu 1.7 released. EMU is a collection of software tools for the creation, manipulation and analysis of speech databases. At the core of EMU is a database search engine which allows queries based on the sequential and hierarchical structure of the annotations. Release 1.7 of the Emu Speech Database System is now available with binary downloads for Windows and Macintosh and source available for building on most unix platforms. This is our first Macintosh release of Emu. Emu provides facilities for creating, annotating and querying collections of speech data and is used in acoustic studies of speech and as a tool for building new voices for the Festival speech synthesiser." [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Superb, I've been waiting for something similar. With text-to-speech systems there are incredibly few that have voices for children and if they are, they're usually American. We've always brought in real children into our sound studio to record snippets that are used in our games. It would be great though if we could create realistic kids voices on demand.
9:02:46 PM JOYCE McMILLAN: The gains that Scotland must not surrender. Scotsman Online Feb 18 2002 [Moreover - Scotland news] 8:59:23 PM
"14892 » February 19 1:27 AM. And You Thought You Knew Your European Flags: A depressing little exercise, guaranteed to expose the ignoramus in each and every one of us. Some of the countries themselves were news to me; never mind the friggin' flags![via Bifurcated Rivets]" [MetaFilter]
I was watching the cross-country skiing one day and caught myself casually thinking "gosh Cuba's doing really well" :-) The resulting meltdown in my brain Cuba/snow/Cuba/snow/does not compute really threw me. It was, of course (ahem), the Czech Republic flag.
8:57:29 PM Yo-del-lay-ay-Ya-beauty-Yo-del-lay-ay-Ya-beauty-Yo-del-lay-Yahoo!
I declare that henceforth this day shall be marked Scotland loves Switzerland day! Why? Women's Curling.
Jings it's hard to keep up with all the swings:
- Scotland lost a nail-bitingly close match to America
- We lost again to Germany in a mistake-riddled match - our last chance to qualify by right for the curling semi-finals. Rhona Martin was at times particularly despondant and she was so upset that at times she was in tears during the match. Glum faces alround, we'd practically started packing to go home when...
- Switzerland beat Germany which threw the Scots a lifeline and we've had to haul our bahookeys out of last chance saloon and get back on the Ogden ice sheets. That result gave the Scots a place in a play-off.
- First play off Scotland v. Sweden. Some cracking shots including a triple take-out and despite a nervy 10th end we pulled through to beat them 6-4. Great to see yesterday's tears turn to smiles, they raised their game by a considerable margin for this match.
- Now they face Germany (again!) tonight and are hungry for revenge and to make sure they take the chances that have gone a-begging in the previous matches. If Scotland win then they will be into the semi-finals. Ach we 'just' need to beat Germany, geez that sounds familiar...
Make mine a Toblerone ya bonny Swiss freens!
7:58:22 PM An educational colleague at work claimed that "you can't put PowerPoint .ppt files for downloading on your site, only .pps" due to some legal reason. Eh? They're only documents for pity's sake. And seemingly PPT and PPS are identical, the extension determines in what mode *the player* will open them I've been trying to find *any* information to support this claim and have drawn a complete blank but he seems pretty certain. Can't find anything obvious on Microsoft's PowerPoint pages or in the newsgroups. To me it sounds like the kind of thing that would generate a Slashdot article. I know zilch about PowerPoint but I have to say it has the the feel of one of those bogus virus alerts that get excitedly passed around to all and sundry when they're false alarms. It's one of those things that even if it is true it's almost completely unenforceable.
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