Andy Lester has very kindly mentioned my markov blogger program in his O'Reilly Network blog:
«I first ran into autogenerated text back in 1984 from an article in Byte with a program listing for Travesty generator. I believe it was in BASIC, and I had to translate it into Turbo Pascal. I was hooked, and threw every scrap of text at it that I could find.
My thanks to Joe for providing this valuable public service.»
Thanks for the Press, Andy.
But, like Prince Charles, I also must deny in
the strong possible terms, the allegations in the blog that you are forbidden
to write. While not going into the specifics, I will note that my numerous enemies have long whispered about me hateful rumors that have been bred out of envy, contempt and misunderstanding.
Whatever may or may not have happen between a young boy, his butler and three
other older male relatives is indicitive of absolutely nothing. The purile
suggestions of my involvement with highly lubricated animals in comprimising
positions is beneath comment. And why would anyone want to say such hurtful
things about my mother's anatomy? Won't you vultures in the Press just leave
Prince Charles and me alone? These sorts of allegations should not even
not appear in the worst of tabloids. Shame! Shame!