Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve: Observations on Life, Tech and Web Design from a Slightly Misanthropic Mind

Tech Fantacism and Cleaner Chaos

This morn­ing Vicky passes on a mes­sage from the cleaners:

Vic: They’ve said they won’t clean Elias’ room.
Me: Why not?
Vic: Uh, they said they can’t get the door open.

How clas­sic is that? This guy (who just received about a hun­dred boxes of vari­ous things from home) has so much crap in his room that the clean­ing ladies can’t even get in there. He’s now star­ted shift­ing stuff into the cor­ridor (where there is now a size­able pile of boxes), com­mut­ing the room, as Josh put it, “from a Hiroshima to a mere fire-bombing of Dresden.”

On top of that, I returned to my PC last night to find this MSN-based gold nug­get wait­ing for me:

Sambo Loooves Peanut but­ter says:
     heres a ques­tion for you:
Sambo Loooves Peanut but­ter says:
     is there any soft­ware that can con­vert audio (e.g wav) into text? Specifically for my lec­tures (so i dont have to make my own notes).

Words fail me :-).