Spring has sprung, the grass has ris; I wonder where the birdies is?

So, today is the first day of summer up here in the Northern Hemisphere!

We celebrated by turning the heating back on: the temperature in the living room had dropped below 19 °C (66 °F).

Aviation is for the birds!

I just realised that aviation is related to avis “bird”!

(I guess I had always thought it was from a root related to “air” or something like that.)

Speech recognition is five to ten years away—and has been since 1997!

A collection of quotes by Bill Gates on when speech recognition will become widely-used and/or useful