Canada Wins Hockey Gold (x2)
The Canadians won the gold medal in Mens Hockey earlier today. The final score was 5 goals for Canada and 2 for the USA. I know a lot of you are probably thinking "So what? It's just a game". To really understand you would have to be Canadian. This ends a 50 year hockey gold medaldrought for the Canadians. The celebrations that are going on all across the country and Canadians are showing their patriotism (which we don't do very often).
The final medal tally for Canada is 17 medals, 6 Gold - 3 Silver - 8 Bronze, which puts us in fourth place overall. We ended up getting 2 of those golds and 2 of the bronze medals yesterday in speed skating which is the most medals we've ever won in one day. Also 17 medals is the most Canada has ever come away with for the Winter Olympics.
The Olympics were a nice morale booster for Canada and the world in general. Now hopefully the world economy will pick up and everything will be good with the world once again. Not that that will ever happen :)
Voice Recognition
This morning I've been playing around with the built-in Windows XP voice recognition feature and had some funny results. I've only gone through two voice training sessions and so far the recognition accuracy is horrible. Here is a sample of text that I typed out and then spoke.
Typed out version: Once upon a time there was a young man and he did love a young girl. He had to go out and slay a dragon to win her hand and marriage and that is what he did. He slayed the dragon and married the young girl and they lived happily ever after.
What XP Voice Recogntion thought I said: Once upon a time there was a young man and he did love the young girl. He had to go out and Slade Drake in the winter hand in marriage and that is what he did. Is that the dragon and Mary the young girl related to Leah rafter.
So was it that the dragn and Mary related to Leah rafter? Hmmm. Interesting. This is almost as much fun as playing with Babelfish.
