Category: Root

  • blogging without using a keyboard (using windows built in speech recognition)

    I’ve been looking at buying dragon naturally speaking from an IT supplier for typing on to the computer. It is software I heard of many years ago that converts speech into type as you speak. I had an mail offering it for only 30.00 which is less than I remember. However I like to test…

  • Root Nicknames

    We all have nicknames. Some we know of, some we don’t. Some we find fun, some we don’t. A friend just emailed me on a Rotary topic using “Rootlebaumeisterstuck”. I have no idea how that came to be made up! Within the club I’m often named Rooty simply because there are 4 members called Steve.

  • A very lucky week for Steve!

    Do you remember the saying that things always come in threes? Well, I really should buy a lottery ticket. Instead the numbers I would have picked had I bought a ticket for Saturday will be 7,11,32, 40,48,49. Why do I tell you this? Well I believe the odds of me winning the lottery are so…