Moment of Microsoft Office Zen
1 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Thursday, December 16 at Thursday, December 16, 2004.
So I have discovered the cheapness of using internet calling cards to call Australia from Egypt. For 15 Egyptian Pounds ($2.50) I get about 2 hours call time to Australia. Compare this to the normal price of a phone card in Egypt (20 pounds for about 2 minutes) and you can see its a significant saving. Especially when your salary is being paid in Egyptian money.
Anyhow, I have a headphone and microphone plugged into the computer. But when am not calling anyone, I unplug the headphone part so that I can plug in the speakers and listen to music. But the mike stays plugged in.
So today I am trping some stuff up, and I accidentally click on the "dictate" button without noticing. MS Word starts listening through the microphone and dictating what its hearing. I, praise to Jah, am bouncing to some Marley. "Iron, Lion, Zion" to be exact.
Anyhow, I stop typing for a second and am thinking of how to word my next sentence. But as I am looking at the screen, something weird happens....words keep on appearing, in a resonably legible sentence. First I think my computer is infected with some shitty virus or spyware, but then I look at the sentence this is being typed....
"A file on a one but I cant stop a mile down see hey we want be beaver star see the frightening down the lion at mount Zion lion Zion"
Microsoft Office was dicating Marley for me! I think what it meant to say was:
"I'm on the run but I aint got no gun
See they want to be the star
So they fighting tribal war
And they saying iron like a lion in zion"
I'm going to try it out with some hip-hop and see how it deals with it. Lets see what it makes of this, to begin with.
Anyhow, I have a headphone and microphone plugged into the computer. But when am not calling anyone, I unplug the headphone part so that I can plug in the speakers and listen to music. But the mike stays plugged in.
So today I am trping some stuff up, and I accidentally click on the "dictate" button without noticing. MS Word starts listening through the microphone and dictating what its hearing. I, praise to Jah, am bouncing to some Marley. "Iron, Lion, Zion" to be exact.
Anyhow, I stop typing for a second and am thinking of how to word my next sentence. But as I am looking at the screen, something weird happens....words keep on appearing, in a resonably legible sentence. First I think my computer is infected with some shitty virus or spyware, but then I look at the sentence this is being typed....
"A file on a one but I cant stop a mile down see hey we want be beaver star see the frightening down the lion at mount Zion lion Zion"
Microsoft Office was dicating Marley for me! I think what it meant to say was:
"I'm on the run but I aint got no gun
See they want to be the star
So they fighting tribal war
And they saying iron like a lion in zion"
I'm going to try it out with some hip-hop and see how it deals with it. Lets see what it makes of this, to begin with.
heya tom, i just came across yr post when i googled calling cards from egypt to australia.. please tell me more about this one you use.. don't keep it a secret.. internet calling card.. i guess you need a mike and speaker tho right? i will def read more of yr post tho, looks like it has a good flow, just at the mo rushing to call home.. can e me fuegorojo AT rocketmail DOT com, if you would be so kind, staying a while here in iskanderia