Broken Boy

I’m fragile. Sometimes emotionally, but right now I’m talking physically. Somewhere between playing videogames, being a full-time web developer, and writing for this blog, I hurt my wrists. (I know, it’s the easiest injury to make fun of in the world, but we can get over that, right?) Well, I take great pleasure in writing… Continue reading Broken Boy

Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 3)

I have a smartphone. The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and allows you to add words to the dictionary it might not otherwise have. As it would be, I have 217 words that I’ve added to my dictionary and most of them are pretty silly/unnecessary. Here is the third part (check out the… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 3)

Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 2)

I have a smartphone (more specifically an HTC Aria running Android Froyo). The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and it allows you to add words to its dictionary that it might not otherwise have. It turns out, as of this morning, I have 217 words that I added to my dictionary and most… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 2)

Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 1)

I have a smartphone (more specifically an HTC Aria running Android Froyo). The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and it allows you to add words to its dictionary that it might not otherwise have. It turns out, as of this morning, I have 217 words that I added to my dictionary and most… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 1)

Words That Lose Friends

I’m an avid player of Words with Friends, a Scrabble-like game for smartphones and Facebook. The trick to the game is not really having a big vocabulary, but more so to have absolute understanding of all the world’s short and somewhat cheap words (I’m looking at you, “qi.”) Recently I stumbled across the word “za,”… Continue reading Words That Lose Friends