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Speech-to-Text Software Translation Misadventures
January 6th, 2009 | Tags: software, speech

Typed note: This is sad. People said my first speech-to-text software entry was funny and I wasn’t even trying to make jokes Seriously, I agree the software does funny translations of my speech. First the script, then the translation. Script Official test number two. I’ve revised the script from the original. I usually write contractions, but decided [...]
Links: 2008-12-31
December 31st, 2008 | Tags: software

Last links of 2008! Running an Effective Code Review: Exhaustive guide to software reviews. Ultimate 80s Movie Quote Quiz New Sidewalk Art photos: You’ve probably seen these before. New set plus the steps in creating one [Link: ThirdHyphen]. Listropolis: All your lists are [...]
Best and Worst of 2008
December 30th, 2008 | Tags: Facebook, skydiving, twitter

Those who know me know I rarely write about myself as I am about giving you info you can use. But this post looks at 2008 from my perspective. Plenty sites and folks shared theirs. I thought 2008 would be grand because: It’s an even number. Always had better luck with even [...]
Links: 2008-12-24
December 24th, 2008 |

Photo credit Frankie Roberto All fun links because we should all take a break no matter what we celebrate. Apologies for no Kwanzaa stuff. Couldn’t find anything fun. Happy Chanukah! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Everything! Buzzwords of 2008 I Do Dog Tricks: Enter ‘em all: sit, beg, roll over, [...]
Game du Jour: Week of December 22
December 22nd, 2008 |

The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games: Mon. December 22nd: 50% off on Arabesque Tue. December 23rd: 50% off on Z-Raid Wed. December 24th: 50% off on Filler Thu. December 25th: 50% off on River Raid II Fri. December 26th: 50% off on Virus Sat. December 27th: [...]
Game Site Coming Soon
December 20th, 2008 | Tags: Casual Games Reviews, News & Talk, PC Games, web design

After two years or so of reviewing casual games, I discovered a new passion: writing game reviews and announcing game news. I thought it was time to create a separate games web site as not all of you care about computer, mobile, and handheld games. But every single one of you offers great insight. So I’m [...]
Links: 2008-12-19
December 19th, 2008 | Tags: freelance, twitter

How to Sell Twitter to a Client (And Your Boss): You could do this with blogs, but twitter takes less time to read and you can read many more folk’s thoughts. 70 Tools Freelancers Rely on Most Editors as Mentors How to [...]
Let Us Tweet
December 18th, 2008 | Tags: mp3, twitter

Was inspired by with my mangling of “Let it Snow” into Let Us Blog. Since I use Twitter lots now, I thought we needed “Let Us Tweet.” Apologies again to Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, the composers of the original. Also, Dragon NaturallySpeaking makes an appearance at the end of the post with both songs [...]
Speech to Text Software: Attempt Number One
December 17th, 2008 | Tags: deaf, mp3, software, speech, surgery

This post will show you what I said and what this stuff where code [Line spoken should be, "the software heard"]. I strike out the software’s mistakes and picked [put] the correct version in practice [brackets]. Here we go… For those of you not familiar with beast to pick up where [speech to text software], you [...]
Links: 2008-12-12
December 12th, 2008 | Tags: cake, coffee, design, game, social media, twitter

64 B2B Marketing Tools and Resources Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words: No preparing to die… just to know the difference between lay and lie (not included… just had to rhyme). The Princess Bride, like Copyblogger says, icky title — great movie. Wiki [...]