The novel system has been realized by integrating (1) large-vocabulary, continuous speech recognition technology, which converts the speech content of the video message into text and extracts important keywords, and (2) natural language, text retrieval technology, which enables searching of contents on the internet.

I don’t know about my fellow MetBloggers, but one of these could definitely solve a lot of my problems!

Who’s playing basketball in Europe? Who is married? Who is making 5X as much money as me? It’s all there for the viewing pleasure. Pair it with myspace for a truely unique experience in searching for long-losts.

I still haven’t decided if all this is good or bad. I mean, was it better back in the day when losing touch with somebody meant you might never truly know? When you might never truly see that person again, despite the fact that they have and continue to live within three minutes from where you are right now?!?

There are some people I’d never want to find me, but if they ever punch my name in google, it’d be pretty damn difficult for them not to read all about my life, my career, and the most intimate of thoughts I can share with the Metblog community.

I love Google. The only question is … should I?

My computer has Kapersky antivirus, but I reccommend whatever you use that you regularly update its virus definititions and regularly scan your systems, especially given how most of you are blog trollers.

Then he started going on about the black community and how most murders are committed by blacks and how most taxes are paid by whites. He then went on to say that black people need to stop blaming white people for the problems they are having in their communities and they need to realize that the whites are the only ones paying to improve their communities. I don’t have any sort of a statistic to back up what he’s saying. I do think he uses too many phrases involving the words “most” or “all.”

I’m not calling him a racist because I sort of see what he was trying to get at, but I’m concerned that if Milton Street is elected mayor we will only see a broadening of any racial divide that is in the city. Call me naive, but I’m not making the distinction when I walk down the street, and I really don’t think most people I run into downtown do either.

I’m very sick of everything coming down to race. I don’t think that we need to ignore race but I don’t think that everything in life has to come down to race. And – until I think everyone can learn to make that distinction – I don’t see any of these problems going away.

http://philadelphia.metblogs.com/archives/2006/01/wasmy_interview.phtml

In the spirit of this grandiose anniversary, I plan to unveil the next subject for my Metblog interview. I realize many of you are probably unfamiliar with the rules, so here goes:

1.) I will announce the name of my next interview on the first of the month. Because there are only 30 days in February I am pushing that date up to tomorrow.

2.) I will have 30 days to get in touch with this local or national celebrity for an interview posted on this very blog. If I don’t get the interview then I lose. I’m not sure what happens when I lose. It’s never happened yet.

3.) Periodic updates will be made available here at the Philly Metblog site.
See you all tomorrow.

I don’t have a picture, but if anyone can get me one, that would be really cool. I won’t be able to get down there until tonight to see it (if it’s still there). If you ask me though, I say we forego putting the jersey on William Penn this year and just leave it on Rocky. It seems like we torment Billly with our high skyscrapers and donning him in a local jersey tends to just anger him.

Let’s make everybody happy and just stick with Rocky this year.
It suits the Eagles (and the Jeff Garcia story) much better anyway.

I know…Score? Right?

Wrong. Every damn time I try to get excited about something it blows up in my face. I am soooo sick and tired of never being able to get pumped for something because – in the end – nothing seems to ever work out the way I’d hoped. Sure, it’ll be a nice romantic weekend still. Albeit, a romantic weekend that cost me three times more than I’d planned. Instead of a bedroom with my girlfriend I now have two bedrooms and a sofa bed downstairs to share with her.

Then, she told me she probably won’t even want to go skiing on Saturday or Sunday. Hmm…

I guess I should try to think about the Eagles instead. After all, it’s not like there’s a chance they could ever let me down, right?

Right?

E-mail me if you want to go skiing for a weekend with a stranger.

Blah.

At least the king of Bensalem isn’t running this year. I’ve had enough calls from George Bush and Ed Rendell to make me sick. They never even call me when I’m home.

Do you know that the other day some politician’s office called me to see how I felt about violence against women? Imagine that. I wanted to tell them I loved it, just to see…

Just to see if they even cared.

That’s how I know the whole bogus process is nothing but a waste of time. And I’m sick of it.

I’m not staying up tonight to see who won. I could care less whether it’s the Steelers’ player or the Eagles’ commentator. Politics means nothing because politics are irrelevant to how we live our lives.

I really could care less anymore. And somehow I suspect the politicians flooding my house with calls every day feel the same.