The World is About To Get EVEN Smaller

It's been a while... how have y'all been doing? Hope things are going great with you...

Here's a quick one... saw this on Times Online today:

Google Leaps Language Barrier with Translator Phone

"GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple of years. If it works, it could eventually transform communication among speakers of the world’s 6,000-plus languages."

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It Was...

...in 1941 when Lady Day, otherwise known as Billie Holiday, recorded her version of "Georgia on My Mind".

More than 68 years later, her music reverberates anew in our room with our latest acquisition... TEAC's SL-D910 CD Clock Radio, from SM Appliance Center in SM City North EDSA. 12-months to pay with ZERO interest.

It was love at first sight for me and my wife... we love it!