Voice recognition and dictation

I have started to use some recognition software on my Mac. In the hope to make the mac get dictation: emails, proposals, you name it. It's a little difficult to train the software to learn and recognize my speech. And the program is a bit buggy, it stopped responding a couple of time. Also it forces you to use SpeakPad (a little notepad) to do your dictations, before copying them in other programs. But these are still details if the software works. And in fact it does. I believe that perseverance will make the difference. My choice went for IBM Viavoice software, which was not too expensive. I do hope that it will allow me to SAVE TIME, altogether. If it doesn't there won't be any real use. Time will tell. 

Python and MySQL on MacOS X "Tiger"

Started developing in Python/MySQL on MacOS X "Tiger". From a web developer perspective it's a great change from PHP. Many Python features (besides its very clear formatting) are really appealing. Planning to start with some litle web development, then (hopefully, as time allows me) move towards some more serious business. MacPython (http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython) helped me greatly to deploy the necessary packages. And I could use the MySQLdb package very easliy. More to come on this.