Daily Archives: October 24, 2008

Photo-A-Day

Hurry Home

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Hurry Home
Photo-A-Day #1295

Today I drove home from Oswego, New York. It was a faster ride than the ride up and I stopped multiple times, mostly at rest areas and for lunch. I never did stop for photos. There really was no place to pull over and take any. I noticed that the leaves were mostly gone when you look close but looking out over the valleys the trees looked spectacular. The color was amazing.

As I got closer to home I twittered the routes that I was on. Since they are numbered it took only a few clicks to shoot the message. So when I got home Allison and Eva were there waiting for me. Seeing this little cutie get all excited when I came home was the best feeling. And Seeing Allison after a week was equally wonderful. Allison got the cutest haircut too.

Tonight Book club is at our house so I can blog and watch my missed shows on Hulu. Sweet. I just watched My Own Worst Enemy and now I am watching Knight Rider. If I still have time I’ll watch Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Review, Technology

Dragon Naturally Speaking, making blogging easier

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Since becoming a father I’ve had to find a balance between my blogging time, my work time and my time with my family. Did you notice the order? That is pretty screwed up. I should be focused on my family time, my work time and my blogging time. Family is very important to me and I have to work each day but I also run 4 blogs and so I need to have time to do that as well. I’m a fast typist but being fast and being accurate are two different things. Many of my posts could be much more accurate if I was able to concentrate on what I wanted to say rather than how quickly I needed to type it up to say it.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred

I’ve been testing out the application Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Preferred and I wish I had been using it this whole past year. For the sheer simple fact that I can continue to work on my posts while having my hands occupied with holding my daughter. And at this stage of the game I can talk right to her and have it still be a post because she just likes the sound of my voice rather than the content of the words.

I have 4 blogs and this blog is the one that gets the most love and attention because it is most important that there be daily content on this blog. But what about the other blogs? I sometimes let those blogs lapse for a few days until I have a spare few minutes to type up a decent posts. With Dragon I don’t have to wait for a few spare minutes. I could spend that usual hour of typing out one post for one blog and complete 4 posts for 4 blogs. With that being the case I now would have fourblogs updated with great content daily. I tried to compete against the speed of Dragon NaturallySpeaking but was blown out of the water. Try that test for yourself. Take the Dragon NaturallySpeaking typing test! It was both humbling and eye opening. Here is a video with more on how Dragon could help you as a blogger.

This software has been reviewed in many places but I think you would really like the New York Times Review.

One last thing I wanted to say about using Dragon and Blogging. I am overweight and have looked at the possibility of blogging and exercising. I think that using Dragon and standing up and walking around or using Dragon and riding a stationary bike would be a great way to lose some weight and get some work done. I haven’t tried it yet but I have a plan and will update you when I have more to say about that plan.

This was a sponsored post, I was compensated but the opinions are 100% mine.