Howard Young

Just had to share with you one of the highlights of my last vacation in Savanna, GA. We went on the Paul Deen tour and stopped at her Bro’s restaurant, Uncle Bubba’s.

I don’t recall what was on the menu, but the Mac ‘n Cheese was pretty good. Apparently when you’re in the South, Mac ‘n Cheese is one of the staples.

My wife, from the South, makes a really mean Mac ‘n Cheese, but she doesn’t think I like it because I’m always putting Cholula hot sauce. But it made her feel real good when I put some Ol’ Louisiana Hot Sauce on Bubba’s Mac ‘n Cheese to spice it up a notch.

Walt at 365 To Freedom wrote a very good review on Dragon NaturalSpeaking. I totally agree with him that it is a very productive tool that everyone should purchase. Walt, this is what I think of the product:

Excerpt From My First Dictation (unedited):

This is a review of Dragon natural speaking. Getting used to the headset is very difficult that tends to squeeze my head and makes my ear hurt. Perhaps this is why it took me almost 3 months to install the software.

So I decided to go to Wal-Mart and picked up a wireless microphone however the quality of the microphone was not good enough so I had to use the default headset.

Out of eight bucks, I installed software ran the utility to train my voice and my dictation and now I’m writing this article without typing.

It’s a pretty good utility that is easy to use, very productive, and very easy to learn.

Some of the important commands are:
“undo” (I had to type this ’cause it kept undonig it)
“select”
“go to end”

The undo command basically is a oops allowing you to correct your mistake. The select command allows you to select words or phrases enabling you to correct those on-the-fly.

The undo command allows you to correct the last mistake; however, it only allows you to correct one mistake. That is, it doesn’t appear to have endless undo commands. This can be a feature of the DragonPad since this is what I am using to write this article. It may not be a limitation of software if I was using Microsoft Word.

The go to command allows you to move within the text you’re dictating. It is very helpful after selecting the word, and correcting your mistake, to go to the end of a line or paragraph. Just say “go to end “and the program will take you to the end of the line.

This is an incredible program which I should’ve bought years ago to help improve productivity and my writing skills. I highly recommend it!

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I really didn’t want to go into work today but I keep getting a Check Condition (SCSI Status Code 02h). I should have hooked up the Fibre Channel Analyzer up last night, but with the “Great California Rain Storm” pounding down, I left the office to pick up my wife before the real rain started.

Now, trying to debug a simple error condition with an analyzer, is becoming a chore trying doing this remotely from home. 02h — You’re Killing me!